Point of View & Bias
This term describes a strong, one-sided opinion that is based more on emotion than evidence.
Answer: What is Bias?
Historical materials created directly from the time period being studied.
Answer: What is a Primary Source?
Earth's seven vast landmasses that hold the majority of the world's countries and human populations.
Answer: What are Continents?
The part of a map (often called a Key) that identifies what symbols and colors represent.
Answer: What is the Legend?
The reason why an author creates a specific document or record.
Answer: What is Purpose?
A document created based on primary sources and the work of other authors, such as a modern biography or textbook.
Answer: What is a Secondary Source?
A natural flowing stream of water that usually empties into an ocean, sea, or lake.
Answer: What is a River?
The massive stone tombs built in Egypt to house dead Pharaohs and their treasure
Answer: What are the Pyramids
Historians define history as an account of the past constructed from this.
Answer: What is Evidence?
The type of source a sword manufactured in the year 1317.
Answer: What is a Primary Source?
A piece of land that projects into a body of water and is surrounded by water on three sides.
Answer: What is a Peninsula?
The historical trade route that connected Asia and Europe, named after a luxury fabric made in China.
Answer: What is the Silk Road?
Factors like race, class, nationality, gender, and life experiences shape a person's point of view, which explains why there is no such thing as "one" version of this.
Answer: What is history?
An essay written by an 8th-grade student summarizing the causes of the American Revolution.
Answer: What is a Secondary Source?
A group, chain, or cluster of many islands, such as Japan or the Philippines.
Answer: What is an Archipelago?
During his 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca, this Mali emperor handed out so much gold in Cairo that he accidentally inflated Egypt's economy for over a decade.
Answer: Who is Mansa Musa?
When Justin claimed Max pushed him in line for no reason and Max claimed Justin punched him out of nowhere, both boys constructed different histories based on their own...
Answer: What is Point of View (or personal perspective)?
Clue: accurate than a secondary source because eyewitnesses can still suffer from memory lapses, personal motives, or this.
Answer: What is Bias?
A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water and separates two landmasses.
Answer: What is a Strait?
The massive ocean that explorers crossed to get from Europe to the Americas during the Age of Exploration.
Answer: What is the Atlantic Ocean?