Social Studies Skills

When we look at the reasons for an event in history it is called

• Looking through their eyes

• Cause and effect

• Using the past

• Through their eyes

To find the exact location of something, you will use these two things.

• Prime Meridian / Equator

• Map Key / Scale

• Lines of Latitude and Longitude

• Elevation / Grid

Name Continent C!

• Antarctica

• Europe

Why did societies begin to use mediums of exchange?

• To stop trade over long distances

• To make trade more convenient

• To slow down cultural diffusion

• To help spread the barter system

Please complete the cause and effect statement:

Cause: ?

Effect: The countries are likely to engage in trade

• Two countries fight a lot of wars with each other.

• Two countries specialize in making different products.

• Two countries produce the same natural resources.

• Two countries set up economies based on barter.

Please complete the following cause and effect relationship:

Cause: Two countries have a surpluses of different goods.

Effect: ?

• The countries will isolate themselves from foreigners.

• The countries will compete with one another.

• The countries are likely to engage in warfare.

• The countries are likely to engage in trade

Trade leads to cultural diffusion when traders:

• specialize in trading in a certain country.

• become wealthy by trading products.

• spread new ideas to areas where they trade.

• use mediums of exchange to make trades.

Why does trade often result in cultural diffusion?

• Because trade leads to people from different societies meeting each other

• Because trade is usually run by powerful religious organizations

• Because trade only takes place between very poor countries

• Because trade is the most profitable when it involves luxury goods

Please determine the following trade network.

Muslim civilizations controlled the sea-based routes in this trade network during the post-classical era.

• Trans-Saharan

• Indian Ocean

• The Silk Road

• Aegean Sea

Choose the best definition of historical causation.

• A connection between events that does not necessarily mean one caused the other

• A connection between events in which the first event caused the events that follow

• The act of identifying relationships between two or more events in history

• Information that helps prove whether an argument or statement is true