AMSCO History Review Flashcards

Comprehensive flashcards covering Historical Thinking Skills, Reasoning Processes, Course Themes, and Historical Periods (1450 to Present) based on the AMSCO lecture transcript.

Developments & Processes

The historical thinking skill of breaking down historical evidence into concepts, developments, and processes to provide supportive context for key history processes.

Sourcing & Situation

The historical thinking skill that involves analyzing different perspectives and contexts, including intended purpose, author’s point of view, and intended audience, to describe the accuracy and context of a source.

Claims & Evidence in Sources

The historical thinking skill requiring students to identify an author’s argument and interpretation of history along with their supportive evidence.

Contextualization

The historical thinking skill where historical events, policies, and sources are used to reflect regional, national, or global influence.

Making Connections

The historical thinking skill that uses reasoning processes like comparison, causation, and continuity and change to recognize and analyze patterns in history.

Argumentation

The historical thinking skill of making relevant judgments about historical evidence to effectively support an argument, noting that not all evidence is relevant or accurate.

Comparison

A reasoning process focusing on evaluating similarities and differences and identifying their relative significance given multiple perspectives of a development.

Causation

A reasoning process that connects causes and effects, distinguishing between primary and secondary causes and short-term or long-term effects.

Continuity & Change

A reasoning process used to describe and explain patterns and long-term trends over time in history.

Interaction of Europe and the World (INT)

A theme describing Europe and the broader world’s interactions after 1450, including motivations like economic growth, power, and the spread of Christianity.

Economic and Commercial Developments (ECD)

A theme focusing on how global commercial networks led by Europeans influenced social and political systems, transforming populations from rural to urban living via colonization and agriculture.

Cultural and Intellectual Developments (CID)

A theme describing the 15th-century shift from religious beliefs to objective scientific truths and the spread of that knowledge throughout Europe.

States and Other Institutions of Power (SOP)

A theme focusing on Europe's shift from traditional church power and monarchies toward societal and governmental institutions stemming from the Enlightenment.

Social Organization and Development (SCD)

A theme describing how family functions and societal classes were impacted by the Protestant Reformation and the Industrial Revolution, including the rise of welfare states.

National and European Identity (NEI)

A theme focusing on how shared languages and history developed regional identity, sparked by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

Technological and Scientific Innovation (TSI)

A theme examining how the Renaissance inspired political-diplomatic, socioeconomic, and cultural-intellectual life through the impact of the Scientific Revolution.

Period 1

The historical period from c. 1450 to c. 1648 (Units 1-2); includes the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Columbian Exchange, and Counter-Reformation.

Period 2

The historical period from c. 1648 to c. 1815 (Units 3-5); includes the Peace of Westphalia, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, and Congress of Vienna.

Period 3

The historical period from c. 1815 to c. 1914 (Units 6-7); includes industrialization, urbanization, the bourgeoisie, proletariat, and the Partition of Africa.

Period 4

The historical period from c. 1914 to Present (Units 8-9); includes World War I, the Cold War, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the European Union.

Bourgeoisie

A social class associated with Period 3 (c. 1815 to c. 1914), typically representing the middle class.

Proletariat

A social class associated with Period 3 (c. 1815 to c. 1914), typically representing the working class.

Partition of Africa

A historical event associated with Period 3 (c. 1815 to c. 1914) involving the division of African territory by European powers.

Peace of Westphalia

A historical event listed across multiple periods, specifically starting in Period 2 (c. 1648 to c. 1815).