History and Historians
Timeline Order
Timeline Math
Primary and Secondary Sources
100
What is the definition of "history"?
The facts and events of the past (what happened)
100
In what year does the Common Calendar start? (Hint: Use the FULL NAME of the year)
Year 1 CE
100
How many years passed between the first cell phone (1973 CE) and the first person in space (1961 CE)
12 years
100
What is a primary source?
Original evidence (artifact) from the time being studied
200
What is a historian?
A person that investigates and explains the facts and events of the past. They discover what happened in the past.
200
What do CE and BCE stand for?
Common Era and Before Common Era
200
How many years passed between the fall of the Roman Empire (476 CE) and the fall of the Ottoman Empire (1922 CE)?
1446 years
200
How does a historian use primary sources?
They use them as evidence to figure out what happened in the past
300
What kind of job could you compare a historian to?
Detective
300
Which event came first: the building of the Eiffel Tower (1887 CE) or the building of Stonehenge (2000 BCE)
Stonehenge
300
How many years passed between the birth of the Buddha (560 BCE) and the birth of Confucius (551 BCE)?
9 years
300
What is a secondary source?
Text written after an event to explain what happened in the past.
400
What is historiography?
The process of interpreting evidence to explain the past. (The way the history is told)
400
Which event came first: the birth of Cleopatra (69 BCE) or when elephants became extinct in the Middle East (100 BCE)
Extinction of elephants
400
How many years passed between the birth of Christopher Columbus (1450 CE) and the birth of Alexander the Great (356 BCE)?
1805 years
400
Does a historian write primary or secondary sources? Why?
Secondary - A historian USES primary sources to get the information to WRITE secondary sources.
500
How many years passed between the writings of Aesop (560 BCE) and Jane Austen (1796 CE)?
2,355 years
500
Would a newspaper article about the previous night's presidential debate be a primary source or a secondary source? Why?
It would be a primary source, because it was written at the time of the debate.
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