Historical Thinking
A source created during the time period being studied
What is a primary source?
A naturally occurring landform, body of water, climate, or ecosystem.
What is a geographic feature?
Citizens vote directly on laws.
What is a direct democracy?
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A textbook written years after an event is an example of this type of source
What is a secondary source?
This type of map shows mountains, rivers, and deserts
What is a physical map?
Citizens elect representatives to govern.
What is a republic?
Belief in one God
What is monotheism?
Europe, Asia, and Africa were known as this (from a Eurocentric perspective)
What is the Old World?
A source may favor one side of an issue because of this
What is bias?
This type of map shows countries and borders
What is a political map?
Rule by a king or queen
What is a monarchy?
Greeks believed truth could be discovered through this
What is reason (including logic, observation, and debate)
The process of adapting plants and animals for human use
What is domestication?
The reason an author creates a source.
What is author's purpose?
The Sahara is an example of this geographic feature
What is a desert?
Rule by a small group of powerful people
What is an oligarchy?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam belong to this group
What are the Abrahamic religions?
Disease that killed millions of Native Americans after contact.
What is smallpox?
Historians compare different accounts because history can contain these
What are multiple narratives?
A map showing population density, climate zones, or natural resources is an example of this type of map
What is a thematic map?
A monarchy whose ruler's power is limited by laws or a constitution
What is a constitutional monarchy?
The ideas of rule of law and equal treatment under written laws can be traced back to this Roman legal code.
What are the Twelve Tables?
Spanish priest who criticized the treatment of Native Americans
Who was Bartolomé de Las Casas?