Historical Thinking Vocabulary

When a historian asks who produced evidence and questions why the evidence was made, he or she is __________ it.

• Bias

• History

• Causation

• Sourcing

A birth certificate, issued by the state, is an example of __________.

• Artifact

• Primary Source

• Contextualization

• Secondary Source

If a researcher found charred logs at a settlement, this would be __________ that these people controlled fire.

• Sourcing

• Causation

• History

• Evidence

Put these events in __________ order, based on when they occurred.

• Chronological

• Primary Source

• Artifact

• Contextualization

When you feel so strongly about something that it influences what you say and do you have displayed __________.

• Evidence

• Bias

• Sourcing

• Causation

A documentary, released in 2014, about the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics is a(n) __________.

• Artifact

• Primary Source

• Chronological

• Secondary Source

____________ covers everything that has happened that people can prove.

• History

• Bias

• Evidence

• Sourcing

When a historian connects events, ideas and people to better understand its importance, she is practicing the skill of __________.

• Secondary Source

• Chronological

• Contextualization

• Primary Source

Many reasons can be listed as the __________ of World War 1.

• Bias

• Evidence

• History

• Causation

Any item created or used by humans is call a(n) ___________.

• Artifact

• Contextualization

• Secondary Source

• Chronological