Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

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

Chapter 13 – The Reformation and the Wars of Religion

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: Continuity and Change

Identify the evidence used in a source to support an 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: Comparison

Explain 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

Make a historically defensible claim.

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: Continuity and Change

Identify a source s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience.

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: Continuity and Change

Identify a source s point of view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience.

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 patterns among or connections between historical developments and processes


Suggested Historical Skill: Causation

Support an argument using specific and relevant evidence.

  • Describe specific examples of historically relevant evidence.
  • Explain how specific examples of historically relevant evidence support an argument.