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?
When we learn the answers to the historical questions and for proff that something is true, historians are looking at this .
What is evidence?
Choosing the most likely explanation for the fact, making an educated guess.
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, unreasoned, emothional judgment unfair dislike or preference of something about people or events.
What is bias?
A time span of 1000 years.
What is a millennium?
Which is the oldest dating of time?
What is BC or BCE?
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?
The study of human culture and how it develops over time.
What is anthropology?
AD stands for this.
What is Anno Domini?
The number of years in a decade.
What is 10?
This is what BCE stands for.
What is Before Common Era?
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?
The study of objects to learn about past human life.
What is archaeology?
An object of interest to a historian or archaeologist.
What is an artifact?
A large division of time.
What is era?
This is the earliest date out of - 550BCE, 1300BC, CE400, and 150AD.
What is 1300 BC?
Sculptures of warriors are evidence of life in China during the Qin dynasty, historians view these as this type of historical evidence.
What is primary?
The study of fossils.
What is paleontology?
A final decision that is reached by reasoning.
What is conclusion?
What is in the year of our Lord.
Look at your book on page 7 - What is the most historical (oldest) part of the timeline?
What is Mohenjo-Daro flourishes - 2600 BC.?
On page 15 in your book, would this illustration be a considered a primary or secondary source?
What is a secondary source.
When a historian gives their own personal attitude about people or life this are using this.
What is point of view.
These are the plant and animal remains that have been preserved from an earlier time.
What are fossils.