(^22) › STEP 2. Understand the Skills That Will Be Tested
Rapid Review
The AP European History Curriculum identifies interrelated sets of “Historical Thinking
Skills.” Those skills can be categorized as follows:
• Reasoning chronologically
• Putting information in context
• Arguing from evidence
Reasoning chronologically is the practice of placing events in the order in which they
occurred and then making reasonable inferences from that order about cause and effect.
Putting information in context means connecting historical sources to all of the relevant
events or processes occurring at the time and place in which the source was produced.
Arguing from evidence is the art of making inferences and constructing a logical argument
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