History Skills
Historians can look at an event to see the cause and this.
What is effect?
This theme explains why Astoria has food from several different cultures.
What is movement?
While a long term cause would be like a powder barrel, a short term cause would this to an explosion.
What is a spark?
Historians first look to their gut or this when claims testing.
What is intuition?
This frame describes how all humans live in groups, and throughout history, human groups have generally grown, and frequently changed.
This theme answers the question where is it located exactly.
What is location?
Stories with one perspective can build these (hint it starts with an S).
What are stereotypes?
While absolute location can look at latitude and longitude, this looks at a location compared to a different location.
What is relative location?
A document written/created at the time of the period studied.
What is a Primary Source?
This fame describes how humans make, share, sell, and trade goods within our communities and across networks. Over time, humans have improved how we produce and distribute the stuff we need.
What is Production and Distribution Frame?
This theme compares and contrasts different areas.
What are regions?
The danger of this can result in there being only one perspective.
What is a single story?
The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood
What is Context?
A historical skill used by historians to assess the quality and truthfulness of a statement.
What is Claims Testing?
This frame describes how humans exchange ideas and goods between and within our communities.
What is Networks?
This theme looks at human and physical characteristics.
What is place?
Foreigners would see all Americans as this if they only read American Psycho.
What are killers?
When historians zoom in to explore smaller stories or zoom out to gain a broader perspective.
What is Scale Switching?
When a historian is claims testing and looks to the author, they are looking for this.
What is authority?
This theme includes all human-induced changes that involve the surface and the biosphere.
What is Human-Enviromental Interactions (HEI)?
Using this chronological word before a story can frame groups only as victims.
What is secondly?