Thinking Like A Historian
Looking at how two or more things are similar or different
What is "comparison"?
Explorer who "discovered" America in 1492
The exchange of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The leader of a Native American tribe
What is the "Chief"?
The nation Columbus "discovered" and named "The New World".
What are the Americas?
The study of cause and effect in history
What is “causation”?
The first explorer to sail around the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
When one country takes over another to be used for its benefit
What is "colonization"?
The "three sisters" refers to these crops.
What is corn, beans, and squash?
Using supporting materials to prove or disprove something
What is "using evidence"?
The time and place surrounding an event
What is "context"?
Portuguese royal who funded mapmaking and exploration tools
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Smallpox, measles, influenza (or malaria)
What are infectious diseases spread by Europeans to Native Americans?
Tracing family through the mother’s line
What is "matrilineal"?
The explorer who proved the Earth was round
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Questioning a source’s reliability
What is "sourcing"?
Explorer who sailed around Africa to reach India
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The art of steering a ship from place to place
What is "navigation?"
Native Americans believed that all plants, land, and animals have this
What is "spirit"?
Studying what stayed the same and what changed over time
What is "continuity and change"?
Breaking the past into chunks of time to organize history
What is “periodization”?
The main goal of most early European exploration.
What is finding trade routes to Asia?
A firsthand account from the time being studied
What is a "primary source"?
The methods through which Native Americans taught lessons and culture
What are stories and legends.
The location where Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492.
What are the Bahamas?