USH Midterm 2024-2025

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The term history refers to

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all of these.

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According to the historian Arnold Toynbee, what does history mean?

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investigation

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How is history similar to economics, physics, or mathematics?

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History is an academic discipline.

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An artifact is an example of what?

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evidence

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What might bias do to a historian's observations?

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distort them

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An established sequence of events is called a

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chronology.

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The process of finding the meaning or significance of historical events is known as

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historical interpretation.

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Some people describe history as

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an ongoing argument about the past.

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Which of these was a major motivation for European exploration? profit, leisure, freedom, education

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profit

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Which of these was a goal of the first European explorers?
Options:
to establish trading posts,
to find a water route to Asia,
to exchange ideas with native peoples,
to explore North and South America

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to find a water route to Asia