Historical Thinking Skills
The ability to understand the cause and effect of things in history.
What is cause and effect reasoning?
People who move from place to place to find food.
Who are nomads?
The name of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The name of the river that was important to Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
A society that has cities, government, and specialized jobs.
What is a civilization?
A document or object created during the time being studied.
What is a primary source?
The major change that happened during the Neolithic Revolution.
What is people began farming and settled in one place.
The fertile region of Mesopotamia in which most early people settled.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The rulers of Ancient Egypt.
What are pharaohs?
A specialized job in early civilizations.
What is a farmer, builder, or scribe?
The term for putting historical events in the order they happened.
What is chronological?
Animals provided food, labor, or clothing.
What is one benefit of domesticating animals?
The meaning of Mesopotamia.
What is the land between the rivers?
The primary purpose of the pyramids.
What are tombs for pharaohs?
The purpose of writing for civilizations.
What is it helps keep records and share information?
A work that analyzes or interprets primary sources, like a textbook.
What is a secondary source?
Tools made by early humans.
What are stone tools or artifacts?
The famous Mesopotamian law code.
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
The writing system of Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
Different levels of people based on their jobs or wealth.
What is "social hierarchy"?
Analyzing a source's point of view.
What is thinking about who created it, when, and why?
Rivers provided water, food, and fertile soil for farming.
Why did early humans settle near rivers?
The large temples built in Mesopotamian cities.
What are Ziggurats?
The people who built the pyramids.
What are paid laborers?
The feature that allowed civilizations to develop a division of labor.
What is a food surplus?