LEQ Prompts By Historical Thinking Skill 2017
HTS Target Causation
Analyze the causes to
environmental change in the
period circa 8,000 BCE to 600
B.C.E.
Period 1 Analyze the extent to which
human migration and settlement
was influenced by the
environment during the period
circa 8,000 BCE to 600 B.C.E.
HTS Target Causation
Using specific examples, analyze
causes of imperial expansion and
consolidation in the period circa
600 BCE to 600 CE.
Using specific examples, analyze
causes of imperial decline and
collapse in the period circa 600
BCE to 600 CE.
Period 2
HTS Target Causation
Period 3
Comparison
Compare societies prior to 8000
BCE to societies after the
establishment of cities around
4000 BCE.
Compare the interactions of of
pastoralist nomads to that of
hunter-gatherers prior to the
Neolithic Revolution.
Comparison
Analyze the similarities and
differences between
Analyze the similarities and
differences between
Analyze the similarities and
differences between
Analyze the similarities and
differences between
Comparison
Analyze at least one similarity
and one difference in the
outcomes of the Mongol conquest
of China and of Russia.
Analyze at least one similarity and
one difference in the impact of the
CCOT
Analyze continuities and changes
in demographics and the
environment circa 10, 000 BCE to
600 CE.
CCOT
Analyze how political
transformations contributed to
continuities and changes in the
cultures of Western Europe during
the period circa 200 C.E. to 1000
C.E.
Using specific examples, analyze
continuities and changes in the
relationship between legal systems
and social hierarchies in the
period circa 2000 BCE to 1000
CE.
Analyze continuities and changes
in demographics and the
environment circa 10, 000 BCE to
600 CE
Analyze continuities and changes
in long-distance trade circa 600
CE to 1600 CE.
CCOT
Analyze how political
transformations contributed to
continuities and changes in the
cultures of Western Europe during
the period circa 200 C.E. to 1000
C.E.
Using specific examples, analyze
continuities and changes in the
 Mongols conquest of China and
Persia.
Analyze at least one similarity and
one difference in the impact of the
Mongol conquest of Russia and
Persia.
Analyze the similarities and
differences between
compare the interactions of
HTS Target Causation Comparison
Compare the spread of disease in
Analyze causes of Western
the Americas during period 4 to
European conquest circa 1450 to
the spread of disease in Eurasia in
1750 CE. period 3.
Analyze the similarities and
Period 4 differences between the
Columbian exchange and the
cause of demographic shifts of
exchanges that had taken place
west africans
along th Silk Roads and overland
trade routes of Eurasia.
analyze the extent to which
African American culture was
similar to or different from the
relationship between legal systems
and social hierarchies in the
period circa 600 CE to 1750 CE.
Analyze continuities and changes
in long-distance trade circa 600
CE to 1600 CE.
CCOT
Analyze how political
transformations contributed to
continuities and changes in the
cultures of Western Europe during
the period circa 1500 C.E. to 1750
C.E.
Using specific examples, analyze
continuities and changes in the
relationship between legal systems
and social hierarchies in the
period circa 600 CE to 1750 CE.
Analyze continuities and changes
in demographics and the
environment circa 1700 CE to
 culture enslaved Africans had 1900 CE.
experienced in Africa.

cause of inflation in
europe and asia

compare the interactions of

Christianity with native society in Analyze continuities and changes
S/E effects of silver trade mid- Ming and Qing China to its in long-distance trade circa 600
1500s to early 1700s relative success and fate in CE to 1600 CE.
Tokugawa Japan.

Demographic and environmental Analyze continuities and changes

effects of Columbian Exchange on
in religion in Latin America 1450
Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe
1492-1750 CE to1900 CE.

Interregional trade in Analyze continuities and changes

L.America/Caribbean, SubS. in religion in sub-Saharan Africa
Africa, SE.Asia, 1500-1750 1450 CE to 1900 CE.

Analyze the extent to which the

rise of capitalism presentat a
source of continuity or change
between medieval and modern
Europe.

Analyze the continuities and

changes on the African continent
from 1450 to 1750 in political and
military power.

Analyze the continuities and

changes in the participation of
China in the expanding global
trade networks from 1450 to 1750

HTS Target Causation
Analyzes causes of Western
European conquest circa 1750 to
1900 CE.
Analyze the causes of migration
within the period circa 1750 C.E.
to 1900 C.E.
Analyze the extent to which
industrialization brought
Period 5 significant social change to
European society during Period 5.
Analyze the extent to which
Industrialization fundamentally
changed how goods were
produced during Period 5.
Analyze the extent to which
development and spread of global
capitalism led to workers’ efforts
to change their own lives.
Comparison
Compare and contrast the causes
of the French Revolution and the
Haitian Revolution.
Compare and contrast the
outcomes of French Revolution
and the Haitian Revolution.
Analyze the similarities and
differences between Japanese
imperialism and European
Imperialism
Analyze the similarities and
differences between expansion of
the United Stated and overland
expansion of the Russian empire
during Period 5.
Compare Canada’s conflicts and
dealings with indigenous peoples
to the approach of the United
States in dealing with similar
issues during Period 5.
Analyze the extent to which the
labor systems employed in
European colonies in the
Americas represented continuity
or change relative to earlier labor
systems.
*Commerce in Indian Ocean
region 650-1750 Commercial life
in Indian Ocean region 650-1750
*C/E/P impact of Islam in
W.Africa, S.Asia, Europe 1000-
1750 Results of the spread of
Islam in W.Africa, S.Asia, Europe
800-1750
CCOT
Analyze how political
transformations contributed to
continuities and changes in the
cultures of Western Europe during
the period circa 1500 C.E. to 1750
C.E.
Analyze continuities and changes
in demographics and the
environment circa 1700 CE to
1900 CE.
Analyze continuities and changes
in long-distance trade circa 1800
CE to present.
Analyze continuities and changes
in religion in Latin America 1450
CE to 1900 CE.
Analyze continuities and changes
in religion in sub-Saharan Africa
1450CE to1900 CE.

Analyze the extent to which
criticism of the development and
spread of global capitalism led to
reforms by governments.
Analyze the extent to which anti-
imperial resistance within empires
led to the creation of new states on
their peripheries.
KC5.2.II.C
Period 5
Compare the tenets and ideologies
of liberalism to those of
conservatism, especially as is
evident in Period 5.
Analyze the similarities and
differences between how
European states used both warfare
and diplomacy to establish
empires in Africa.
Analyze changes and continuities
in long-distance migrations in the
period from 1700 to 1900.
Analyze continuities and change
in the response of native peoples
to imperialism in ONE of these
regions between 1750 and 1900:
India
Sub-Saharan Africa
Describe the continuities and
changes in the effects of the
process of industrialism in ONE
of the following civilizations from
1750 to 1900:
China, Japan,
Russia, Ottoman Empire
Analyze continuities and changes
based on the effects of
Enlightenment thinking on ONE
of the following regions between
1750 and 1815:
British colonies in North America,
France, or Haiti
Analyze continuities and changes
of the impact of the shift from
mercantilism to laissez-faire
economics in ONE of the
following regions between 1750
and 1900:
British colonies/United States
Great Britain
Analyze the social changes and
continuities which resulted from
industrialization.
HTS Target Causation Comparison CCOT

Analyze continuities and changes

in long-distance trade circa 1800
CE to present.
Analyze the causes to
environmental change in the
period circa 1900 C.E. to present.

Analyze the causes of migration

with the within the period circa
1900 CE to present.