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often grumble that history is just a bunch of facts tomemorize.While it's true that studying history requires data,information,andfacts,that's not the essence of what history is.History is a way of understandingthe world by learning about the past.It is an interpretive reconstruction of the pastbased on several skills.Advanced Placement (AP⑧)World History requires stu-dents to demonstrate an understanding of these skills.This primer will help youdevelop the historical thinking skills needed to succeed in your AP®World His-tory class and exam,as well as improve the critical thinking,reading,and writingskils that will be useful in college and in your.future career.  \n## Historical Thinking Skillsfor World History\n\nThe AP®World History curriculum introduces you to nine thinking skills infour categories,representing the ways historians talk about the past.These skillsare sometimes described as \"habits of mind.\"This useful phrase should remindyou that a skill needs to be practiced repeatedly until it becomes second nature.Because practice is an integral part of learning to think historically,the sectionsbelow include exercises to help you develop these “habits of mind.”Like shoot-ing free throws,rehearsing dance moves,or playing scales,historical thinkingskills need to be exercised regularly until you can use them easily and almosteffortlessly.  \nWhile all historians use the skills described here,world historians use themin distinctive ways.That's because world history deals with a much larger region(often the entire globe)and a much longer period of time (thousands of years)than United States history or even European history.Thus,while the AP⑧United  \nStates History and AP⑧European History courses employ these very same skills,in AP⑧World History you will practice historical thinking from a very broadpoint of view.And even though we discuss each skillseparately below,these skillsoverlap in many ways.For example,you can't make a historical argument with-out also evaluating evidence.So as you develop one historical thinking skill,you'll also be learning other skills at the same time.  \nTo start,historians make arguments about the past based on evi-dence,which is categorized as either primary or secondary sources.A primary source is something produced in the time period you arestudying.In contrast,a secondary source is a text written about thattime period,usually something a historian writes long after thefact.Secondary sources result from scholarly research of pri-mary sources.Effective historical thinking requires the abilityto analyze primary sources—reading carefully for the author'spoint of view and purpose,the format of the document,and itscontext—as well as to analyze the ways historians create inter-pretations (secondary sources)based on their own use of primary-source evidence.Until now,you might have thought of your schooltextbooks as conveyors of facts and truths,but by definition,the nar-rative of this book—that is,the portions written by Drs.Robert Strayer  \nand Eric Nelson—is in fact a secondary source with which you might dis-agree.To do so,you would use historical thinking skills in order to questiontheir interpretation of primary sources.  \n## Analyzing Evidence:Content and Sourcing—Primary Sources\n\nTraditionally,primary sources have consisted overwhelmingly of written sources.In fact,historians used to refer to any time before the invention of writing as\"prehistory.\"In the last few decades,however,historians have moved well beyondrelying exclusively on written primary sources.Historians now use paintings,photographs,architecture,artifacts,and so on,as well as evidence from otherfields of knowledge.For example,scientific and medical information informshistorians about the role that disease played throughout history.And since nohistorian can be an expert in every field,t","cbCaisreoTbgBig3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisreoTbgBig3","pdf",2784536,"English","# Historical Thinking Skills for World 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