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How do historians sort out their evidence?
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| framing | It is hard to study history when your topic is too large: break it down! |
| sourcing | You should ask questions about who made certain comments, when they did, and why they did when judging a source |
| significance | worthy of our attention (but we do not have the same attention spans) |
| temporal frame | when historians use timelines and dates to show cause and effect over time |
| social institutions | These are groups designed to help us meet our basic needs |
| family | a social institution centered on carrying for a raising children |
| economy | a social instituion featuring goods and services |
| religion | a social institution that consists on a shared set of beliefs and practices that help people explain even supernatural aspects |
| education | a social institution focused on sharing knowledge and learning |
| government | a social institution that helps society keep order |
| language | a social institution that shows how people in a society create and use a shared system of communication and self-expression |
| age | synonym for era |
| era | a period of time characterized by an individual, human activity or culture. |
| AD | Anno Domini, the Year of our Lord; this keeps track of the years after the birth of Jesus Christ |
| CE | Common Era=AD |
| BC | Before Christ=BCE (Before Common Era) |
| Gregorian Calendar | The calendar that we follow: it's a solar calendar with 365.25 days in a year |
| Christopher Columbus | Whether you consider him a hero or villian or somewhere in between, he definitely had an impact on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| the last Ice Age | this was a time period when ice connected most if not all of our 7 modern continents |
| continent | a continuous expanse of mass of land |
| Eurasia | Europe + Asia= medium mega continent |
| Afroeurasia | megatronic triple continent |
| Americas | North and South America collectively |
| Oceania | Australia and the Pacific Islands around it |
| Bubonic Plague | Black Death that killed half of Europe with it's fleas biting rats who ate food consumed by people |
| calendar | a system for organizing and dividing time, often based on the orbit of the moon around the earth or the earth around the sun. |
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