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Historical Thinking Skills
Historical Causation • WHY did stuff happen?
• What was the impact? Think long and short-term.
Continuity and Change Over Time
• What stayed the same?
• What changed?
• Why did it change and how much did it change?
Periodization • Why do historians start and end time periods when
they do?
• Turning points!
Comparison • Identify similarities and differences within a
society or between societies—could be chronological, ideological, demographic, geographic, political, economic, social
Contextualization • Connecting events to their specific place and time
in history