Essential Vocabulary

An answer to a question

• claim
• evidence
• logic

the study of historical study

• turning point
• historiography
• historical opinion

examples used to support a claim

• historical fact
• historical argument
• evidence

dealing with how humans manage resources

• social
• political
• economic

reasoning used to explain a claim

• logic
• thesis
• historical opinion

dealing with human ideas and values

• economic
• social
• cultural

a succinct summary of a group of claims

• historical creation
• turning point
• thesis

dealing with classification of humans

• point of view
• social
• economic

a subject of discourse concerning the past

• historical topic
• historical question
• historical argument

dealing with power over human affairs

• economic
• cultural 
• political