Question

A historian is trying to understand the events that led up to the terrorist attacks on New York City's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. To do this, the historian constructs a timeline showing the order in which each event happened. Which of these skills is the historian using?

A.Primary source analysis
B.Chronological thinking
C.Examining historiography
D.Analyzing and creating historical arguments

Answer 1

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By disposing of events in a linear manner, identifying the order of events so that the situation can be analyzed, the historian does what is called "chronological thinking" (b).

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