Historical Thinking
What is another way to ask 'to what extent'
What is 'by how much'
This imaginary line located at 0° latitude divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Noting that Ötzi had a copper axe is an observation; stating he was a wealthy leader in his community is an example of this.
What is an inference?
Early humans during the Paleolithic Era survived by practicing this way of obtaining their food.
What is hunting and gathering?
The Neolithic Revolution is defined as the major historical shift from foraging to this method of obtaining food.
What is Agriculture (or Farming/Cultivation)?
A diary entry written by a factory worker during a 1912 strike is an example of this type of historical source.
What is a primary source?
While latitude measures distance north or south of the Equator, this imaginary line measures distance east or west.
What is the Prime Meridien. It measures longitude and it measures the distance from Greenwich, England.
Because Max’s best friend and Justin’s father both have personal relationships with the boys, historians must watch out for this in their testimony.
What is Bias (or Point of View / Lack of Objectivity)?
This vocabulary term describes communities that move continuously from place to place in search of food rather than living in permanent homes.
What is nomadic?
Taming and breeding wild animals and plants for human use is known as this process.
What is domestication?
When a historian compares multiple accounts of the same event to check for agreement or contradiction, they are using this historical skill. This is called...
What is Corroboration?
If you travel from North America across the Atlantic Ocean toward Europe, you are traveling in this direction.
What is East?
While physical artifacts like Ötzi’s shoe provide valuable clues, archaeological evidence is limited because early humans left none of these.
What are written records?
To adapt to colder climates during global migrations, Paleolithic humans created fire, animal-skin clothing, and tools made from this material.
What is stone?
Living permanently in one location rather than moving continuously is described by this vocabulary term.
What is sedentary?
Placing an event or source within its broader background circumstances and time period to better understand why it happened is known as this. This is called...
What is contextualization?
On a historical timeline, which year occurred earlier: 15,000 BCE or 8,000 BCE?
What is 15,000 BCE?
When two reliable sources contradict each other regarding the same event, a historian's best next step is to do this.
What is compare how each source obtained its information and seek additional evidence?
Artwork found on cave walls, such as those at Lascaux, provides evidence that Paleolithic societies possessed this...
What is culture, community and/or artistic expression?
Producing extra food beyond immediate survival needs creates this, which directly allows people to take on non-farming jobs.
What is food surplus?
The primary geographic reason Paleolithic hunter-gatherer groups were forced to migrate across continents was following these.
What are Animal herds / Seasonal resource availability?
Name at least FOUR of the traditional seven characteristics used to define a complex civilization.
What are Cities, Organized Government, Complex Religion, Job Specialization, Social Hierarchy/Classes, Writing Systems, and Arts/Architecture?