Historical Thinking Skills

When Historians examine cause and effect it is called

• analytical thinking

• calendar

• comparing

• effect

A timeline that begins with the most recent event being studied and works backwards

• calendar

• backwards timeline

• cause

• timeline

Shows the days of the week and months of the year

• calendar

• comparing

• timeline

• contrast

An event that makes or causes something else to happen

• cause

• effect

• comparing

• contrasting

Examining two or more events, people, places, or ideas to identify how they are the same

• comparing

• contrasting

• calendar

• effect

Examining events, people, places, or ideas to see how they are different

• contrasting

• effect

• timeline

• calendar

The result, consequence, or outcome of what happened

• effect

• cause

• timeline

• contrasting

A list of events in chronological order, or in the order that they happened

• timeline

• clock

• calendar

• prtzels