Sources
A source created during the time period being studied by someone who experienced it or witnessed it first-hand.
What is a primary source?
Comparing pieces of evidence to see if they agree or disagree with each other to ensure the reliability of a source.
What is corroborate?
The events that led to an event; includes the time period and larger historical trends as well as causes.
What is historical context?
A serious disagreement or argument between individuals, groups of people, or nations.
What is conflict?
The study of the Earth's surface and physical features.
What is geography?
A source created based on primary sources by someone who did not experience or witness it.
What is a secondary source?
The reason a source was created.
What is purpose?
Where an historical event took place and why it took place there; includes location, geographic features, and climate.
What is geographic context?
The influence or control over the behavior of people that is part of every human interaction.
What is power?
This type of map shows political boundaries.
What is a political map?
A source that is both useful and accurate to historians.
What is a reliable source?
The group for who a source was intended for.
What is the intended audience?
Information that can be used to prove something.
What is evidence?
This occurs when more people are born than die.
What is population growth?
This type of map shows landscapes and geographic features
What is a physical map?
A letter from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson during the American Revolution is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
A person's opinion.
What is point of view?
An argument made by historians is also known as this.
What is a claim?
The affect that people have on the environment and that the environment has on people.
What is environmental impact?
These types of maps show a variety of specific topics or themes for various places.
What are thematic maps?
A textbook is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
Daily Double: An opinion for/against something that is often based on emotion or personal preference.
What is bias?
This is used to explain why evidence provided by a historian supports their claim.
What is reasoning?
The state of not having enough of something.
What is scarcity?
Daily Double: This type of map projection shows the correct size of the continents, but not the correct sizes.
What is a Mercator projection?