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Change and Continuity

History · Historical Thinking · ages 11-14
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. Which of these best describes continuity in history?

    • Something completely new begins
    • Something stays roughly the same over time
    • Something happens very quickly

  2. During the Industrial Revolution, factories started using new machines. But most families still ate roughly the same foods their grandparents had eaten. What is the food part an example of?

    • Continuity
    • Change
    • Neither change nor continuity

  3. A fast change is always a deep change too.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Look at the chart. During this period, which area of life changed the deepest?

    Transport8Clothing4Homes2
    • Transport
    • Clothing
    • Homes

  5. A new king takes the throne but keeps the same laws and taxes his father used. Is this change, continuity, or both?

    • Only change
    • Only continuity
    • Both change and continuity

  6. In a village, farmers began using tractors instead of oxen to plow their fields. They still baked bread from the same type of grain their grandparents grew. Which part of this shows continuity?

    • Using tractors
    • Baking bread from the same grain
    • Plowing the fields at all

  7. A country passes a new law giving more people the right to vote. For the next twenty years, people's jobs, homes, and daily food stay almost the same. What's the best way to describe this period?

    • Mostly continuity, with one significant change in voting rights
    • Total change, with no continuity at all
    • Total continuity, since nothing really changed

  8. Jamal says, 'Clothing fashions changed every single year, so this was a period of huge, deep change.' What is the flaw in Jamal's thinking?

    • Fast changes are never real changes
    • Clothing fashions cannot actually change
    • A fast change, like fashion, can stay on the surface without reshaping daily life
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  1. Something stays roughly the same over time · Continuity is the part of life that keeps going the way it always did.
  2. Continuity · Continuity means something stayed the same across the period, like most families' food.
  3. False · Not always. A change can happen fast but stay on the surface, like a clothing style that changes in a year without changing how people actually live.
  4. Transport · The tallest bar shows the deepest change. Transport changed the most in this period.
  5. Both change and continuity · The ruler changed, but the laws stayed the same, so it's both at once.
  6. Baking bread from the same grain · The grain and the bread stayed the same across generations. The tractors are the change.
  7. Mostly continuity, with one significant change in voting rights · One clear change, the voting law, happened inside a period that was mostly continuity. Both can exist side by side.
  8. A fast change, like fashion, can stay on the surface without reshaping daily life · Speed and depth are different questions. Fashion can change fast every year without changing how people actually live day to day.
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