Chapter 1 Lesson 1
A group of ten years is known as a __________.
What is a decade?
A soldier's diary is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
The general terms for an address of an online resource is called the _____.
What is the URL?
History is the study of these two things.
What are people and the events of the past?
Each source is written with this ____________.
What is a point of view?
A group of 100 years is known as a _______.
What is a century?
Pottery from an anthropological dig is an example of this.
What is evidence?
The first step in a history research project is to identify this.
What is the topic?
Finish this sentence: Learning about the past helps us understand the _________.
What is the present?
Sometimes, a point of view is expressed as a bias, which is an unreasoned, emotional ____________ about people and events.
What is judgment?
In the Gregorian calendar, events are dated either before or after the birth of ____________.
Who is Jesus?
The biography of a famous general would be an example of this.
What is a secondary source?
To present someone's work as your own without giving proper credit is called this.
What is plagiarism?
To avoid a religious reference in dating, many historians prefer to use these initials.
What are BCE and CE?
Sources with a bias cannot always be _________.
What is trusted?
Some early calendars developed by the Chinese, Egyptians and Hebrews were based on the cycles of this.
What is the moon?
A judgement made after examining clues would be called this.
What is a conclusion?
When deciding if your research topic is too narrow, test it by looking it up in one of these.
What is an encyclopedia?
This is the study of the past by looking at what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
Sometimes, historians disagree about their ____________ of the facts.
What are interpretations?
The first historical era, more than 5,500 years ago, is called _____________and refers to a time before people developed writing.
What is prehistory?
The study of historical interpretations is called this.
What is historiography?
Besides the information that you found, on your note cards should be this.
What are the books you used to find your information?
This is the study of human culture and how it develops over time.
What is anthropology?
A statement of fact expresses only what can be proven by evidence. A statement of opinion expresses this.
What is an attitude?