Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

Identify and describe a historical context for a specific historical development or process.

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

Identify a historical concept, development, or process.

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: Comparison

Identify patterns among or connections between historical developments and processes.

Technological and Scientific Innovation

Scientific and technological innovations have increased efficiency, improved daily life, and shaped human development and interactions, having both intended and unintended consequences.

Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

Identify a historical concept, development, or process.

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 a historical concept, development, or process.

Technological and Scientific Innovation

Scientific and technological innovations have increased efficiency, improved daily life, and shaped human development and interactions, having both intended and unintended consequences.

Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

Identify and describe a claim and/or argument in a text-based or non-text-based source.

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

Identify and describe a claim and/or argument in a text-based or non-text-based source.

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

Identify the evidence used in a source to support an argument.

Interaction of Europe and the World

Motivated by a variety of factors, Europe s interaction with the world led to political, economic, social, and cultural exchanges that influenced both European and non-European societies.

Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

Identify and describe a historical context for a specific historical development or process.

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

Identify the evidence used in a source to support an argument.

Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

Make a historically defensible claim.