Measures of Time
A time span of 10 years.
What is a decade?
This is another term for CE.
What is AD?
This type of source was written or created by the people who experienced an event.
What is a primary source?
These people study and write about the human past, dig up and study artifacts made by humans, and study cultures of present humans and their ancestors.
What are historians?
Choosing the most likely explanation for the fact.
What is inference?
A time span of 100 years.
What is a century?
True or False:
There is a year 0 between A.D. 1 and 1 B.C.
False
This is a source that is a second-hand account of an event or time period.
What is a secondary source?
Concerned with academic learning or research
What is scholarly?
A form of prejudice, unfair dislike or preference of something.
What is bias?
A time span of 1000 years.
What is a millennium?
The current calendar we use that includes leap years and started with the birth of Jesus.
What is Gregorian Calendar?
Of the following examples listed, this is a secondary source: a senate meeting's attendance log, Anne Frank's journal, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, a spear found at a dig site.
What is a biography of Abraham Lincoln?
When historians analyze information and look for reasons that the source was created.
What is a reliable source?
AD stands for this.
What is Anno Domini?
The number of centuries in a millennium.
What is 10?
This year is before A.D. 1
What is the year B.C 1?
Of the following examples, this is an example of a primary source - A History textbook, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, A website containing information about ancient Rome, A biography of Leonardo Da' Vinci.
What is Martin Luther King's speech?
This is a great way to avoid plagiarism when writing about history.
What is citing your source/giving credit to someone else for their ideas?
An object of interest to a historian or archaeologist.
What is an artifact?
These are the four time measurements we've covered ranked in order from smallest to greatest.
What is decade, century, millennium, and era?
This is the earliest date out of - 550BCE, 1300BC, CE400, and 150AD.
What is 1300 BC?
This is the proof that something is true.
What is evidence?
We can 1.) understand and explain why the present is the way it is, 2.)improve and build upon our present and future. and 3.) learn from our past mistakes so that we don't repeat them.
What are 3 reasons we study history?
A final decision that is reached by reasoning.
What is conclusion?