Measures of Time
A time span of 10 years.
What is a decade?
This is another term for CE.
What is AD?
This type of source was written or created by the people who experienced an event.
What is a primary source?
When a story can be told from different points of view, they are told using this.
What is perspective?
This is "an arrangement of events following one event after another event in time".
What is chronological order?
A time span of 100 years.
What is a century?
To figure out how many years pass between 400 BCE and 300 AD, you would use this.
What is addition?
This is a source that is a second-hand account of an event or time period.
What is a secondary source?
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A form of prejudice, unfair dislike or preference of something.
What is bias?
A time span of 1000 years.
What is a millennium?
To figure out how many years to passed between 400 BCE and 800 BCE, you would use this.
What is Subtraction?
Of the following examples listed, this is a secondary source: a senate meeting's attendance log, Anne Frank's journal, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, a spear found at a dig site.
What is a biography of Abraham Lincoln?
These people study and write about the human past, dig up and study artifacts made by humans, and study cultures of present humans and their ancestors.
What are historians?
AD stands for this.
What is Anno Domini?
The number of centuries in a millennium.
What is 10?
This is the year that BC/BCE changes to AD/CE.
What is the year 0?
Of the following examples, this is an example of a primary source - A History textbook, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, A website containing information about ancient Rome, A biography of Leonardo Da' Vinci.
What is Martin Luther King's speech?
This is a great way to avoid plagiarism when writing about history.
What is citing your source/giving credit to someone else for their ideas?
An object of interest to a historian or archaeologist.
What is an artifact?
These are the four time measurements we've covered ranked in order from smallest to greatest.
What is decade, century, millennium, and era?
This is the earliest date out of - 550BCE, 1300BC, CE400, and 150AD.
What is 1300 BC?
This is a name for a source that is credible, or worthy of trust.
What is a reliable source?
We can 1.) understand and explain why the present is the way it is, 2.)improve and build upon our present and future. and 3.) learn from our past mistakes so that we don't repeat them.
What are 3 reasons we study history?
This agricultural event occurred first (see the board)
What is rice?