What is History?
How Does A Historian Work?
Researching History
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
100
This is the most important thing in history.
What is time / chronology?
100
Proof that something is true.
What is evidence?
100
This is how you can tell if you have selected a good topic.
What is there is not too much or too little information?
100
The study of the past by looking at what people left behind.
What is archaeology?
100
Firsthand evidence of an event in history.
What is a primary source?
200
This is understanding past people and not judging them by today's values.
What is historical empathy?
200
This is a source that is created by people who saw or were part of an event.
What is a primary source?
200
This is the meaning of URL.
What is uniform resource locator?
200
The study of the past using fossils.
What is paleontology?
200
An unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events.
What is bias?
300
A reason that something happened AND what happened after an event.
What is cause and effect?
300
This is a source's attitude that can affect their judgement.
What is point of view?
300
These are qualifications or something that gives confidence.
What are credentials?
300
An object made by people.
What is an artifact?
300
Concerned with academic learning.
What is scholarly?
400
These are two types of calendars.
What is Julian and Gregorian?
400
Historians use these after they have examined primary sources.
What is secondary sources?
400
Presenting someone's work as your own without giving that person credit?
What is plagiarism?
400
A large division of time.
What is an era?
400
A final decision reached by reasoning.
What is a conclusion?
500
This is the study of human culture.
What is anthropology?
500
After considering different points of view of the sources, a historian makes this in order to explain what happened.
What is an inference?
500
The ending of a web address of a university.
What is .edu?
500
Plan or animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time.
What is a fossil?
500
A general attitude about people or life.
What is point of view?
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