Why Study History?

When you study history, you start to see patterns in human behavior.

• True

• False

The skill of being able to identify and explain events or concepts throughout history is called this.

• Contextualization

• Developments & Processing

• Sourcing

• Corroboration

To study history - you must start with this.

• A sentence

• A war

• A question

• A solution

What is the information that can be used to prove your statement or to support a conclusion?

• Opinions

• Ideas

• Questions

• Evidence

A document or other records of past events created by people who were present at that time are called this -

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

This type of source was written after the time period by an expert or a historian.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

What's another way of saying that after researching your evidence, you've come to a conclusion? What is this conclusion called?

• Sourcing

• Opinion

• Evidence

• Inference

What historical skills takes into account the author’s point of view, or way of looking at something may be shaped by many things, such as the person’s age, religion, job or political views.

• Contextualization

• Sourcing

• Corroboration

• Argumentation

This term refers to anything that might change a person’s observations.

• Source

• Context

• Bias

• Artifact

This term refers to information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

• Source

• Propaganda

• Context

• Evidence