Measuring Time
A line marked off with a series of events and dates.
Timeline
Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event
Primary Source
It is the scientific study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture.
Anthropology
It describes a place's exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude.
Absolute Location
Key
A list of events in the order in which they occured
Chronology
It is an object made by a human being, such as a tool or a weapon.
Artifact
It is the scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence.
Archaeology
The location of a place relative to another place
Relative Location
It is a diagram of a compass showing direction.
Compass Rose
It is a length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time.
Period
It is information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced that event.
Secondary Source
It is a community's cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs.
Oral Tradition
Refers to the mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location.
Place
It shows a larger area than the main map.
Locator map
It is the time before humans invented writing
Prehistory
It is an unfair preference for or dislike of something.
Bias
An area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history.
Region
It shows how much space on the map represents a given distance on the land.
Scale Bar
People who study events in the past
Explores how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
Movement
It is a special-purpose map that provides information about a place at a certain time in history.
Historical Map