Thinking Skills
This historical thinking skill allows you to trace how something evolved or developed over time.
Change/continuity
This dynasty ruled over China during one of the most prosperous eras in its history, leading some to refer to its rule as a "Golden Age"
Song Dynasty
This was the dominant religion of Western European kingdoms
Roman Catholicism
The Renaissance is usually associated with which region?
Florence, Venice (more generally Italian city-states)
This is the word for the larger, complex agricultural societies that emerged after the Agricultural Revolution. They typically contain governments, trade, religions, and social hierarchies.
Civilization
This historical thinking skill allows you to see how two or more things are different and what they have in common.
comparison / contrast
These 'big 3' technologies, which changed world history forever, were first invented by the Song Dynasty and adopted later by Europeans for colonization.
Printing press, gunpowder, and magnetic compass
These holy wars, which occurred intermittently between 1054-1204, were launched by the Catholic pope against the forces of Islam.
The Crusades
This Renaissance thinker invented the term "Middle Ages" in order to demonstrate that Europe had returned to a place of glory not seen since the Fall of Rome
Petrarch
A term made up by historians to remember periods of time as prosperous, thriving, or ideal
Golden Age
This historical thinking skill allows you to explore how things are shaped by their particular time and place
Context
China's economic revolution
By 1200, this once-powerful Christian empire had entered into a state of decline. Its end came in 1453, when its capital city of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire.
Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium)
This style, which originated with the Renaissance, centered the importance of humans as the source of authority and inspiration in the world. Artists, for instance, began representing their subjects in a more realistic manner and stopped depicting humans in their most idealized form.
humanism
A term made up by historians to remember periods of time as backwards, regressive, or unhappy
This historical thinking skill allows us to see how peoples, patterns, and ideas throughout world history influenced and interacted with each other.
Connections
This innovation revolutionized Chinese politics and society because it staffed the government more efficiently and provided a small amount of social mobility to peasants by offering them a job working for the government.
This is the term for the highly fragmented and decentralized society of western Europe, in which power was held by a landowning warrior elite, knights swore allegiance to their kings in exchange for land, and serfs were at the bottom of the social hierarchy.
Feudalism
The proliferation of new paintings and culture that characterized the Renaissance was made possible by wealthy families who invested in artists in a system called ________.
Patronage
Pyramid that contains an order of types of thinking, with the more simple thinking skills at the bottom and the more complex thinking skills at the top.
Bloom's taxonomy
This historical thinking skill, which is NOT discussed in your textbook, is nonetheless essential to studying the past because it allows us to examine why things happened the way they did.
Causation / cause-and-effect
This practice, which became widespread in Song China, reinforced patriarchal authority and caused physical harm to women.
Footbinding
The inability of western European kings, nobles, and church leaders to prevail over each other or form a large, territorial state (like that in Song China) allowed this group of people in Europe to achieve an unusual amount of independence from political authority.
merchants, bankers, and tradesmen
As the most wealthy family in Florence, this family amassed an enormous amount of wealth by capitalizing on the world's first banking system. They are also well-known for patronizing a number of works of art.
The Medicis
Thinking about thinking
Metacognition