Sophia American History
◉ Bias. Answer: Prejudice towards one event, group of people, or set of
objects when compared to another.
◉ Historiography. Answer: The study and interpretation of historical
writings.
◉ History. Answer: The study of the past.
◉ Objective History. Answer: Viewing past people and events without
taking the historian's personal view into account. Unbiased history.
◉ Social History. Answer: The history of the average person, especially
in terms of demographic groups.
◉ Critical Thinking. Answer: Clear, self-directed, and evidence-based
judgement on a topic
◉ Primary Source. Answer: First-hand accounts/evidence from the time
period that a historian is writing about or studying.
◉ Secondary Source. Answer: Pieces of work that contain analyses of
primary sources that relate to events that have already taken place in the
past.
, ◉ Class. Answer: The structuring of human society in terms of
economic position and status.
◉ Gender. Answer: The social and/or cultural vision of what it means to
be male or female.
◉ Historical Lens. Answer: The analytical approach that a historian may
take when interpreting and creating narratives about the past.
◉ Race. Answer: The classification of humans into groups based on skin
color or other physical characteristics and features
◉ Beringia. Answer: An ancient land bridge linking Asia and North
America. It's also known as the Bering Strait.
◉ Empire. Answer: A set of various states unified under a single
authority, usually defined by military expansion, a unified economic
system, and a supreme ruler.
◉ Mesoamerica. Answer: The geographic area stretching from north of
Panama up to the desert of central Mexico.
◉ Quipi. Answer: An ancient Incan device for recording information,
consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
◉ Bias. Answer: Prejudice towards one event, group of people, or set of
objects when compared to another.
◉ Historiography. Answer: The study and interpretation of historical
writings.
◉ History. Answer: The study of the past.
◉ Objective History. Answer: Viewing past people and events without
taking the historian's personal view into account. Unbiased history.
◉ Social History. Answer: The history of the average person, especially
in terms of demographic groups.
◉ Critical Thinking. Answer: Clear, self-directed, and evidence-based
judgement on a topic
◉ Primary Source. Answer: First-hand accounts/evidence from the time
period that a historian is writing about or studying.
◉ Secondary Source. Answer: Pieces of work that contain analyses of
primary sources that relate to events that have already taken place in the
past.
, ◉ Class. Answer: The structuring of human society in terms of
economic position and status.
◉ Gender. Answer: The social and/or cultural vision of what it means to
be male or female.
◉ Historical Lens. Answer: The analytical approach that a historian may
take when interpreting and creating narratives about the past.
◉ Race. Answer: The classification of humans into groups based on skin
color or other physical characteristics and features
◉ Beringia. Answer: An ancient land bridge linking Asia and North
America. It's also known as the Bering Strait.
◉ Empire. Answer: A set of various states unified under a single
authority, usually defined by military expansion, a unified economic
system, and a supreme ruler.
◉ Mesoamerica. Answer: The geographic area stretching from north of
Panama up to the desert of central Mexico.
◉ Quipi. Answer: An ancient Incan device for recording information,
consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
