Historian’s Toolkit
This field investigates what happened in the past.
What is history?
A diary written during an event belongs to this type of source.
What is a primary source?
This Stone Age is associated with hunter-gatherer life and early stone tools.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
This process divides work so people can develop expertise in particular tasks.
What is specialization?
Genesis 1:28 presents this command to fill the earth, subdue it, and exercise responsible dominion.
What is the Creation Mandate?
These scholars gather evidence and construct explanations about the past.
Who are historians?
A modern textbook explaining an ancient event belongs to this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
This Stone Age is associated with agriculture and permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic Age?
These systems of roles, rules, leadership, and accountability help complex societies function.
What is organization?
The chapter describes this event as the entrance of sin into human history.
What is the Fall?
This step asks whether a source is authentic, accurate, and trustworthy.
What is source evaluation?
Stories, customs, and beliefs passed from one generation to another form this kind of historical evidence.
What is tradition?
Burials, tools, food preparation, art, and organized living spaces provide evidence of culture among this group.
Who were the Neanderthals?
Cities, governments, economic systems, social classes, job specialization, and this broad feature characterize civilizations.
What is culture?
This verse introduces the conflict between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.
What is Genesis 3:15?
Historians examine the author, audience, purpose, date, context, and this possible influence when judging a source.
What is bias?
This set of basic beliefs shapes how a person understands reality and interprets evidence.
What is a worldview?
This universal-history model begins with the Big Bang and follows thresholds of increasing complexity.
What is Big History?
The chapter’s six themes include justice, power, community, environment, religion, and this expression of beauty.
What is aesthetics?
This event brought judgment on a corrupt world and a new beginning through Noah’s family.
What is the Great Flood?
This process connects facts and identifies relationships, causes, and effects before a historian states a conclusion.
What is interpretation?
These three biblical truths form the chapter’s framework for interpreting history.
What are Creation, Fall, and Redemption?
In Big History, these favorable circumstances allow new levels of complexity to develop.
What are Goldilocks conditions?
Explain how specialization and organization work together to make civilization possible.
Specialization allows people to develop expertise in particular jobs, while organization coordinates people, rules, leadership, and responsibilities.
At this event, God confused human language and scattered people, contributing to the rise of distinct nations.
What is Babel?