HISTORICAL THINKING
This means something or someone had an important impact and still matters today.
What is significance?
In medieval Europe, power was based on owning this.
👉 What is land?
In a medieval city, the most protected place was the ______.
👉 What is the castle?
This significant document limited the king’s power in England.
👉 What is the Magna Carta?
This helped connect people and ideas between societies.
👉 What is trade?
This asks: what caused something to happen and what happened after.
👉 What is cause and consequence?
The person at the top of the feudal system.
👉 Who is the king?
People with more power lived closer to this in medieval towns.
👉 What is the castle?
This war was between England and France, and lasted for 116 years.
👉 What is the Hundred Years’ War?
Scholars translated knowledge from Latin and Chinese into this language in the Islamic world.
👉 What is Arabic?
This looks at what stayed the same and what changed over time.
👉 What is continuity and change?
This group helped the economy by buying, selling, and trading goods between regions.
👉 Who are traders/merchants?
This was a place in Baghdad where scholars met to study, translate, and share knowledge in subjects like math, science, and philosophy.
👉 What is the House of Wisdom?
The Crusades were partly about religion and also about controlling this.
👉 What are trade routes/land/power?
Later, Europeans translated knowledge into this language.
👉 What is Latin?
This means how events or societies are connected to each other.
👉 What are interrelationships?
Most people in Islamic society were this group (not peasants).
👉 Who are farmers and workers?
This shows that Indigenous communities valued sharing and community, and where many families lived together.
👉 What are longhouses?
Joan of Arc was significant because she did this.
👉 Led the French army / helped France regain land.
This type of cooperation happened between royal families in Europe.
👉 What is marriage between royals?
These are things you see directly vs ideas you think about based on evidence.
👉 What are observations and inferences?
This group in medieval Europe worked the land and had the least power.
👉 Who are peasants/serfs?
Why were some Indigenous villages semi-permanent?
👉 They moved when land/resources (like soil) were no longer suitable.
This modern example shows that important trade routes can become part of a conflict because they affect resources, trade, and power.
👉 What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This period in Europe was influenced by knowledge from Greece, Rome, the Islamic world, India, and China that was translated and shared over time.
👉 What is the Renaissance?