Historical Thinking Skills

The act of comparing pieces of evidence and seeing if they agree or disagree is known as

• Analysis

• Contextualiztion

• Causation and Consequence

• Corroboration

To categorize historical time by looking for turning points and characteristics of that time is known as

• Continuity and Change

• Periodization

• Comparison

• Contextualization

Artifacts, documents, and written or oral descriptions left behind that are analyzed as clues from the past is known as

• Evidence

• Context

• Causation

• Corroboration

Analyzing who or what influenced events to occur and what the repercussions of those events were is known as

• Comparison and contrast

• Contextualization

• Continutity and Change

• Causation and Consequence

Looking at things in society that change over time and the things that stay the same is known as

• Corroboration

• Causation and Consequence

• Continuity and Change

• Periodization

To evaluate two or more historical developments from multiple perspectives is known as

• Comparison

• Corroboration

• Causation

• Periodization

To think about what was going on when a particular document was created, and to consider how that might have influenced the content of the document is known as

• Causation

• Contextualizaton

• Corroboration

• Periodization