HISTORIAN'S TOOLBOX
A journal written by someone who personally witnessed a historical event is what type of source?
Primary Source
What is the division of history into periods based on important changes or turning points called?
Periodization
What important skill allowed hunter-gatherers to create objects they needed for survival?
Knowledge of how to make tools
Government, constitutions, monarchies, and nations fit under what historical theme?
Political Structures
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share a belief in how many gods?
One God
What do we call a person's perspective or way of seeing and understanding an event?
Point of View
Historians commonly divide history into different periods based on what?
Major turning points
Pastoral nomads based their way of life around what?
Herds of domesticated animals such as sheep, goats, and cattle.
In the Roman Republic, people ruled through whom?
Elected representatives.
Which figure is considered an important person in Judaism, Christianity, AND Islam?
Abraham
What should a historian do FIRST when beginning to study a historical event?
Develop a question to answer or a problem to solve.
Gender roles and relationships would be studied under what historical theme?
Social Structures
The earliest settled societies commonly developed in places rich in what?
Natural resources
True or False: A Roman-style republic and a direct democracy work exactly the same way.
False
What happened to Jewish people as a result of the Jewish Diaspora?
They dispersed into other regions
A historian reads a source and considers the creator's prejudices or preferences. What is the historian looking for?
Bias
The historical theme of integration examines how different peoples of the world have done what?
Been drawn together
Which ancient civilization developed hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egypt
What is the major difference between a representative republic and a direct democracy?
In a republic, citizens elect representatives; in a direct democracy, citizens participate directly in government decisions.
Name ONE Confucian value
Two eyewitnesses give different accounts of the same battle. Give ONE reason their accounts might be different.
Different points of view or biases.
The movement of people from one place to another.
Migration
People believe their ruler has governed poorly and has therefore lost heaven's approval. What concept explains this?
Mandate of Heaven
The spread of cultural ideas, customs, technologies, or practices from one society to another
Cultural Diffusion
What characteristic helps a world religion appeal beyond one particular group of people?
It offers a message that appeals to diverse groups of people