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Vocabulary
Continuity and Change
Exploring Your Community's Past
Tracing a Community's History
Communities in Ancient Times
100
This is a period of 100 years.
What is a century?
100
Changes in a community may take place over decade which is a period of this many years.
What is 10 years?
100
This is an object that was used by people in the past.
What is an artifact?
100
Jamestown Colony was a settlement in the Americas built by these people.
Who were European or English settlers?
100
The world's first cities were located in this part of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
This story of the past is spoken rather than written down.
What is oral history?
200
Continuing without change is called ____________.
What is continuity?
200
This is one type of artifact you might see at an historical museum.
What is an old newspaper?
200
The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, was started along this river.
What is the James River?
200
Using the time line on p. 312, tell how many decades are shown on Time Line A.
What are 10 decades?
300
This is the time we live in today.
What is modern time?
300
In the 1860's, towns near gold and silver mines grew quickly. When the gold and silver ran out, these towns became ________ ________.
What are ghost towns?
300
The name of your community might tell you this about its founder.
What is the person's last name?
300
This crop was the best money maker in Jamestown Colony.
What was tobacco?
300
The ancient Chinese were known for the inventions of these two things.
What are paper and printing?
400
This burial place for a dead king or queen is in Egypt.
What is a pyramid?
400
Louis Pasteur's work change peoples lives in this way.
What is brought better health to people or made milk safe to drink?
400
This is why a newspaper might be included in a time capsule.
What is to give and idea of what was happening in the community and around the world at the time?
400
This is what the Virginia Company hoped the settlers at Jamestown would do.
What is make money for the company?
400
Using the time line shown on p. 313, tell how many years are shown on Time Line B.
What are 4,000 years?
500
This is all the land and people under the control of a powerful nation.
What is an empire?
500
In 1936 change happened in Gainesville, Georgia, because of ___________.
What is a tornado?
500
These are two ways people can learn about their community's history.
What are talking to other people and visiting a museum?
500
These are three reasons why settlers left England to come to Virginia.
What are to make money, share religious beliefs, and find adventure.
500
For this reason Mali is no longer a powerful trading center.
What is modern shipping lanes do not pass through Mali?