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54 Cards in this Set
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Critical examination of a historical problem, event, or fact
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Analysis
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Studies of the world focusing on large areas defined by continents or culture areas: Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Western Europe, Russia & Eastern Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East asia, Western Civilization or the US could also be considered to be "areas" in this sense
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Area Studies
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in history, an interpretive conclusion on the past, and the reasoning and evidence to support it
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Argument
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BC
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Before Christ
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AD
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Anno Domini - year of the Lord
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History from the big bang until today. An approach setting the history of humankind in the context of the history of our physical and biological environment
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Big History
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an emphasis on placing events in relation to one another to gain a better understanding of how they might be part of a larger historical process.
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Big Picture
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A listing of events in time sequence
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Chronology
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A conceptual tool for categorizing large numbers of human beings into a few major groupings
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Civilizations
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identifying similarities and differences of two situations
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comparison
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in history, the critical evaluation of concepts used in interpreting the past
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Conceptualization
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linkage of any sort between events or processes in history
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connection
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the social and cultural patterns of a society
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culture
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the spread of an item from one area to another without changing in process
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diffusion
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Main control of one region by another
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dominance
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a royal family remaining in power for more than one generation
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dynasty
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the periodic interconnection of large areas
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Ecumene
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A political structure governing both a homeland and outlying areas
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empire
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a trading post
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entrepot
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A period of time
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Era or Epoch
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an incident or occurrence
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Event
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a process of development
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evolution
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a thing that has actually happened or is true
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fact
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the combination of two or more musical styles into one distinctive style. can also be applied to history
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fusion
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encompassing a large area or range of topics
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Global
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the process of integrating the entire globe into a singular unit
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globalization
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an interpretive statement purporting to explain past events
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Hypothesis
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a two way street of contact and change. opposed to diffusion
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interaction
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Scholarly work utilizing the results of more than one dicipline
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interdiciplinary
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an explanation of past events
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interpretation
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A Narrative of the past that explains the main line of history
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Master Narrative
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The collection of methods historians use
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methodology
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a period of 1000 years
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millennium
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an interpretation of recent history in which change in all societies is seen as progressing in the direction of technological advance and social rationality
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modernization
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a sequential presentation of the past
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narrative
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societies unified by a common government
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nation
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the history of nations
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national history
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people who move from place to place
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nomads
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European study of societies of the east
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Orientalism
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plural of person
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people
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choices made by historians to segment history
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Periodization
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a particular outlook of history
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Perspective
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interpretations explaining on how nations of Western Europe and North America came to be dominant in the modern world
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Rise of the West
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a community of interdepent individuals
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society
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the combination or reconciliation of differing beliefs in religion or philosophy
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Syncretism
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the pattern in which the human society develops
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Stages
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A formal political system with specialized rulers and a system for administration and consultation
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State
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an arrangement of things connected as to form a unity
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system
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subjects or topics on which a person writes or speaks
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Themes
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a logically consistent system of explanation which, given the necessary evidence, results in predictions of outcomes over time
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theory
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a distinguishing characteristic
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trait
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a group of people claiming descent from an individual or group of common ancestors
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tribe
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A culture made up of many changing areas but still referred to as one culture by the rest of the world
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the West
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Immanuel Wallerstein's interpretation of world history
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world-system
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