Suggested Historical Skill: Continuity and Change
Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.
Chapter 18 – The 18th Century: States, War, and Social Change
Economic and Commercial Developments
Economic development, especially the development of capitalism, played an important role in Europe’s history, often having significant social, political, and cultural effects.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.
States and Other Institutions of Power
European states and nations developed governmental and civil institutions from 1450 to the present to organize society and consolidate political power, with a variety of social, cultural, and economic effects.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Identify patterns among or connections between historical developments and processes.
Chapter 19 – The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
States and Other Institutions of Power
European states and nations developed governmental and civil institutions from 1450 to the present to organize society and consolidate political power, with a variety of social, cultural, and economic effects.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Compare the arguments or main ideas of two sources.
Social Organization and Development
Economic, political, and cultural factors have influenced the form and status of family, class, and social groups in European history, which has, in turn, affected both the individual and society.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Use historical reasoning to explain relationships among pieces of historical evidence.
States and Other Institutions of Power
European states and nations developed governmental and civil institutions from 1450 to the present to organize society and consolidate political power, with a variety of social, cultural, and economic effects.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Explain how a historical development or process relates to another historical development or process.
Chapter 21 – Reaction, Revolution and Romanticism
States and Other Institutions of Power
European states and nations developed governmental and civil institutions from 1450 to the present to organize society and consolidate political power, with a variety of social, cultural, and economic effects.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Explain how claims or evidence support, modify, or refute a source’s argument.
Cultural and Intellectual Developments
The creation and transmission of knowledge, including the relationship between traditional sources of authority and the development of differing world views, had significant political, intellectual, economic, cultural, and social effects on European and world societies.
Suggested Historical Skill: Causation
Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.
Suggested Historical Skill: Continuity and Change
Identify patterns among or connections between historical developments and processes.