Measuring Time
People who study events in the past
Historians
Primary Source
The scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence.
Archaeology
A place's exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude.
Absolute location
This explains the symbols and shading on the map.
Key
A line marked off with a series of events and dates
Timeline
An object made by a human being, such as a tool or a weapon
Artifact
The study of humankind in all aspects
Anthropology
The location of a place relative to another place.
Relative location
This shows a larger area than the main map.
Locator map
A list of events in the order in which they occured
Chronology
Information about an event that does not come from a person who experienced that event
Secondary Source
Community's cultural and historical background
Oral Tradition
The mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location.
Place
Scale Bar
A length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time
Period
An unfair preference for or dislike of something
Bias
Region
A diagram of a compass showing direction.
Compass Rose
The time before humans invented writing
Prehistory
How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
Movement
A special-purpose map that provides information about a place at a certain time in history.
Historical map