Vocabulary 1
Firsthand evidence of an event in history
Primary Source
A written work or visual representation created by people who were not part of the historical event
Secondary source
Any written work or object that can be used to gather information
Source
having a significant connection to the issue or idea
Relevant
Something that shows proof of truth
Evidence
Copying someone else's work and claiming it as your own
Plagiarism
Something that makes an event happen
Cause
Effect
Why did a war start? How did they govern themselves? Where did they settle? These are all examples of?????
Compelling Questions
A system for breaking time into units?
Calendar
An object made by peole
Artifact
The way things stay the same over time
Continuity
The order in which events happen
Chronology
A tool for studying events over time
Timeline
Pre-History, Ancient History, Middle Ages, Modern History.
A historical period
Era
Reasonable; making sense
Logical
The study of human cultures and how they develop over time
Anthropology
The study of objects to learn about past human life.
Archaeology
The study of fossils to learn what the world was like long ago
Paleontology
Thousands of years where people hunted and gathered food while making stone tools and weapons.
Paleolithic Era
Explain Radiocarbon dating.
By measuring how much carbon-14 remains, scientists can estimate how old an object is.
To explain the meaning of
Interpret
Show different groups of events happening in the same years
Stacked timeline
Shows dates are skipped or missing in a timeline.
Jagged line