History Specific Vocabulary Terms

To judge the importance or worth of something

• Assess

• Evaluate

• Estimate

• Calculate

Systems of producing and trading goods and resources

• Economics

• Sociology

• Anthropology

• Psychology

Give a detailed account using observations

• Explain

• Describe

• Narrate

• Summarize

To note the same things between at least two things

• Contrast

• Analyze

• Compare

• Differentiate

Leader of the Visigoths who led the sack of Rome in 410 CE.

• King Alaric

• Attila the Hun

• Julius Caesar

• Charlemagne

Make something clear by giving reasons

• Clarify

• Elucidate

• Explain

• Obfuscate

Easily recognize and name specific elements

• Identify

• Differentiate

• Analyze

• Categorize

Talking respectfully about different ideas and opinions of a topic

• Debate

• Discuss

• Argue

• Negotiate

To figure out or establish exactly through research

• Ascertain

• Determine

• Conjecture

• Speculate

To observe the differences between things

• Differentiate

• Identify

• Distinguish

• Compare