Analyzing sources
A journal entry, song, picture, letter, artifact, painting, interview, or other material created at the time of the historical event.
What is a primary source?
One theory of how the indigenous Americans came here
What is a land bridge across the Bering Strait?
The flow of goods from between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This line separated the Portuguese and Spanish claims to the Americas.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
The egregious voyage that African slaves across the Atlantic- often in chains- stacked in bunks.
What was the Middle Passage?
Biographies, textbooks, scholarly articles that analyze research, historical accounts, literary criticism, and encyclopedias. These sources analyze, interpret, or comment on information originally presented in primary sources
What is a secondary source?
Rock Drawings made by the Great Basin and Plateau tribes of the Shoshone, Ute and Nez Perce
What are petroglyphs?
This factor leading to exploration involved Christians conquest to retake Jerusalem and other lands conquered by the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
The primary purpose for founding of Jamestown was
What was economic gain?
The city Mansa Musa turned into a center for learning after his pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is Timbuktu?
A valid historical interpretation must be supported by this.
What is evidence? Specifically more than one piece of evidence including both primary and secondary sources.
The idea that all objects (both living and non living) have a spirit/ soul.
What is animism?
This factor of scientific discovery and technological advances such as the invention of the compass and astrolabe contributed to the exploration of the Americas.
What was the Renaissance?
This man imposed discipline in the Jamestown colony and forced them to work. "If you don't work, you don't eat!"
Who was John Smith?
These three empires controlled the trade of gold, salt, ivory, and slaves in West Africa
Who were the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
The study of the writing of history.
What is historiography?
This German monk took a stand against the Roman Catholic church and encouraged all Christians to read their Bible and have a personal relationship with Jesus where they are saved by his grace- NOT the church or its sacraments.
Who was Martin Luther?
This percent of colonists died during "starving time" from 1609-1610 in Jamestown, Virginia.
What is 90%?
What is (Speaker, occasion, audience, and purpose) and is used to evaluate a sources bias and perspective/ worldview to see what they may be adding or taking away from the historical event being studied
This movement spurred Roman Catholics to seek new lands to further their influence similarly to those who wanted to extend Protestantism.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
These 6 reasons were varied motivations for Englishmen to come to North America
What is personal wealth, land, political freedom, religious freedom, adventure, and mercantilism