Historical Skills
This skill asks you to imagine what it would be like to see events in the past from a different point of view.
What is Historical Perspective?
This Empire was famously uninterested in trade when Lord Macartney visited them in the 18th Century.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The Taino lived here peacefully until the arrival of Christopher Columbus landed here in 1492.
What is Cuba?
Indentured servants who were in essence owned by the Russian state.
What are Serfs?
This seashell was used as a currency in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is a cowrie shell?
What is Evidence?
The ruler of this Empire was influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment and instituted trade reforms during her time in power.
What is the Russian Empire?
The East India Company represented this European empire.
What is Great Britain (England)
An elite fighting force composed of young male, enslaved Christians taken from wars in the Balkans
What are The Janisarries?
This trade system saw the forced migration of millions of Africans throughout the 18th Century.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Sometimes things are different after an event, and sometimes they are not.
What is Continuity and Change?
Islam played an important role in this multi-ethnic and multi-religious Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Often described by the name of the Continent, this landmass has more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined.
What is Africa?
These two social roles were seen as most important in the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What are Warriors and Farmers?
What is Sugar?
In Social Studies, it is the ability to answer why we think something is important.
What is Historical Significance.
This isolationist Empire upheld strict social hierarchies influenced by the Confucian idea that society was made up of four social classes.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
The small coastal fishing village of Edo, the new capital at this time, is located where?
What is Japan?
This value system reinforced the idea that women should be obedient to their male family members in Qing society.
What is Confucian thought? (Confucianism)
The Mughal Empire had a thriving manufacturing system that was well known for these products.
What is textiles, cotton and silk?
Throughout history, a lot can happen. The difficult part is deciding if it is right or if it is wrong.
What is Ethical Judgment?
This Empire was located on the South Asian subcontinent of Eurasia and is now the home to modern India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This location became key in opening up trade between Britain and the Qing Dynasty.
What is the Mughal Empire?
These military and civil leaders maintained cavalry (armed horsemen) ready for battle, and they collected taxes on behalf of the empire. In return, they got land rights, payment, and status.
What are Mansabdars?
This was the most important foreign good imported by China.
What is silver?