World Geography
SPICE-T
HISTORICAL THINKING
KEY CONCEPTS
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
100

This is the ocean located between the Americas and Europe/Africa.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

100

Studying how a government makes laws uses this SPICE-T category.

What is Political?

100

This skill examines what has stayed the same and what has changed over time.

What is Continuity & Change Over Time?

100

This term means the movement of people from one place to another.

What is Migration?

100

The Torah is the sacred text of this religion.

What is Judaism?

200

This is the continent located south of Europe and southwest of Asia.

What is Africa?

200

Studying unemployment and people's ability to buy food during the Great Depression uses this category.

What is Economic?

200

Comparing girls' education in the 1950s with girls' education today demonstrates this historical thinking skill.

What is Continuity & Change Over Time?

200

This term describes the practice of traveling to a religiously important place.

What is Pilgrimage?

200

The Qur'an is the sacred text of this religion.

What is Islam?

300

This ocean lies between Africa, Asia, and Australia.

What is the Indian Ocean?

300

Music, art, and fashion are examples of this SPICE-T category.

What is Cultural?

300

When you consider how Anne Frank's identity and experiences as a Jewish teenager affected what she wrote, you are examining her ______.

What is Perspective?

300

This term means changing from one religion to another.

What is Conversion?

300

This religion began among Jewish people living in the Roman Empire.

What is Christianity?

400

Christianity was mostly practiced in this general region from 1200–1450 CE.

What is Europe?

400

Studying how the 1906 San Francisco earthquake affected buildings and population uses this category.

What is Interactions with the Environment?

400

Using evidence to make a claim and convince someone that your position is correct is called this.

What is Argumentation?

400

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are known as this because they each believe in one God.

What are monotheistic religions?

400

This religion teaches reincarnation and focuses heavily on concepts such as karma and the cycle of life.

What is Hinduism?

500

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all originated in this region of the world.

What is the Middle East?

500

The invention of the wheel changed transportation. Identify BOTH the SPICE-T category and the historical thinking skill that would best analyze this change.

What are Technological + Cause & Effect?

500

A historian examines the Hindu caste system and explains how British colonial rule changed caste boundaries. What historical thinking skill is being used to examine how one development influenced another?

What is Cause & Effect?

500

A historian compares two societies and examines their similarities and differences. What historical thinking skill are they using?

What is Comparison?

500

This religion began with Prince Siddhartha Gautama and teaches that desire is the cause of suffering.

What is Buddhism?