Vocabulary
Types of Historians
Timelines
Basics
Timeline Challenges
Primary and Secondary Sources
100

What is an artifact?

What is an object made or used by people in the past

100

What does a historian do?

 What is studying and recording past events.

100

What does a timeline display?

What is events in chronological order from what happened first to last.

100

What comes first on a timeline AD or BC?

What is BC

100

What is a primary source?

What is a source created at the time of the event.

200

What is a century?

What is 100 years.

200

An archaeologist mostly studies history by doing what?

What is digging up artifacts and ruins

200

What does A.D. stand for?

What is Anno Domini

200

True or False: CE 2021 and AD2021 are the same year.

What is true

200

A history documentary is usually considered what?

What is a secondary resource?

300

What does chronology mean?

what is putting events in time order.

300

Who studies how people lived long ago by examining their bones and fossils?

What is a Paleontologist

300

What does B.C. mean on a timeline?

What is Before Christ

300

Which event comes first in a set of years? (200 CE, 400 BCE,100 BCE)

What is 100 BCE.

300

Why are primary sources useful to historians and anthropologists?

What provides first-hand information for historians

400

What does sources mean in history?

what is a place or objects that gives information.

400

What does an anthropologist study?

What are cultures and societies

400

Where does CE start on a timeline?

What is AD 1

400

What is the correct order of the following dates in chronological order?
 500 CE,1000 BCE,100 CE

 

What is 1000 BCE,100 CE,500 CE.

400

Give two examples of a primary source.

What is an autobiography, newspaper, clothing, voice recording, or photograph.

500

How many years are in a century?

What is 10 years.

500

Which type of historian studies old coins, tools, and pottery?

What is an Archaeologist.

500

What does "BCE." stand for?

What is before Common Era

500

How are numbers ordered on the BC/BCE side?

What are numbers ordered from highest to lowest.
500

Which source is considered a reliable source? (primary or secondary)

What are Primary sources are reliable because they include original evidence.

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