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