Time Line
A group of ten years is known as
What is a decade?
The remains of plant and animal life from an earlier time are called
What are fossils?
A final decision that is reached by reasoning
What is a conclusion?
List three rules to follow when doing historical research
What is choosing a topic, collecting sources, and deciding if each source can be trusted?
Letters, diaries, tools, and clothing are examples of
What are primary sources?
A group of 100 years is known as
What is a century?
Objects made by people are called
What are artifacts?
Writing concerned with academic learning or research
What is scholarly?
The general term for the address of an online resource is called
What is a URL?
Sources created after an event, by people who were not part of the event are called
What are secondary sources?
A group of 1,000 years is known as
What is a millennium?
The study of human culture and how it develops over time is called
What is the study of anthropology?
The study of historical interpretations is called
What is historiography?
Four steps to researching history are
What is choosing a research topic, deciding what you want to learn, collecting your research materials, looking for articles on the Internet?
Something written from a trustworthy point of view.
What is a reliable source?
More than 5,500 years ago, the first historical era refers to a time before people developed writing.
What is prehistory?
Some early calendars developed by the Chinese, Egyptians, and Hebrews, were based on the cycles of
What are the cycles of the moon?
To draw conclusions about past events based on evidence, not modern values is called
What is to study history?
To present someone’s work as your own without giving proper credit
What is plagiarism?
Evidence that someone is an expert on a subject is called
What are credentials?
Sometimes, the Middle Ages are called
What is the medieval period?
In the Gregorian calendar, years are marked in a special way, B.C. and A.D. stand for
What is before Christ (B.C.) and anno domini (A.D.)?
A person's point of view and bias are related
What is a point of view is an attitude or feeling about people or life, and sometimes a point of view is based on feelings and not on facts, which is called a bias.
Three rules to follow to avoid plagiarism are
Put the ideas you read in your own words
When you restate an opinion from something you read, include a reference to the author: “According to Smith and Jones, ...”
Always include a footnote when you use a direct quotation from one of your sources.
List four ways to tell if a website is probably a good source
What is
Who wrote the article?
Who is responsible for the website?
The page has been updated recently.
The writing does not show a bias toward one point of view.