Official Study Guide - History Bee：官方学习指南-历史的蜜蜂_推荐.pdfVIP

Official Study Guide Dear Students, Parents, and Teachers: Welcome to the National History Bee Study Guide! To make the Study Guide, we divided all of history into six chapters: American History to 1815, American History from 1815 to 1933, American History from 1933-Present, World History (everything but American) to 1492, World History from 1492 to 1933, and World History from 1933-Present Each chapter has four parts. The first explains why we’ve divided history the way we did—what makes 1492 or 1933 such an important year? Hopefully, these explanations introduce you to historical “turning points,” and provide some context for the concepts and facts offered in the other three parts of the chapter. The second section of each chapter offers the “great themes” for that period of time. Reading about these themes should allow you to think of history not just as a set of facts to memorize, and will give you a greater understanding of historical progress and the truly BIG concepts that tie those facts together. The third and fourth parts of each chapter offer lists of people, places, things, and events you need to know and should know, respectively. The “Need to Knows” are not necessarily more important than “Should Knows”—they just tend to come up in National History Bee questions more often. So please enjoy the Study Guide. Keep an eye out for anything in bold in the first two parts of each chapter; study up as much as you can on the terms in the third and fourth parts. And remember—while this Study Guide should get you started, there is so much more to history than what’s in the next ten pages. A good History Bee competitor will know the Study Guide forward and backward; a great one will go above and beyond, reading books and scouring through encyclopedias. Have fun with the Study Guide, and good luck! National History Bee – Official Study Guide, page 1 Amer