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Gregorian calendar
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100
Information found within a source that proves or disproves something
What is evidence
100

An object made or altered by people, e.g. weapon, tool or ornament

What is an artefact

100

A person’s written record of his or her own life

What is a memoir (dairy)

100
The time after Christ’s birth. Latin for ‘in the year of our Lord’.
What is Anno Domini, abbreviated to AD
100

What are 2 examples of primary sources ?  

letters, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and official documents, coins, tools, weapons

200
Written and non-written items that can provide information about the past.
What are sources
200

A perception of the way things are or should be, even if it's not accurate.

What is a bias

200
One created after the period the historian is investigating. It usually contain information taken from many other sources, both written and non-written.
What is a Secondary source
200
The time before the birth of Christ.
What is 'Before Christ' (BC)
200

The mathematical way to  find out the amount of time between a date in BC/BCE and AD/CE?



What is addition 

Example 275BC + 1725=  2000 years 

300
Someone trained to investigate and write about the past
What is a Historian
300

_________ are basically the material evidence like historical buildings, coins, inscriptions and other remains that gives important information pertaining to a particular period.

What is an Archaeological sources ( artefact)

300
A source created during the period the historian is investigating.
What is a Primary source
300
When we cannot be sure of the exact date we use the word ........ , meaning ‘about’.
What is circa, meaning ‘about’.
300

On a timeline _______ allows for the accurate placement of events relative to each other based on their chronological order

 What is Scale

400
Someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by previous civilisations
What is an archaeologist
400

Who made it, When It was made , and where it was made , identifies _______ of a source

What is origin of a source 

400
The truth or reality of an event, situation or person. They are what people can prove to be true.
What is facts
400
Historians have come up with two ‘neutral’ terms to use with this dating system. BCE often replaces BC these days.
What is ‘before the common era’.
400

Is a source truthful? Has it been impacted by motive or bias? These are questions are used to evaluate the _____ of a source 

What is reliability ?

500
The order in which events happen, from earliest to the most recent.
What is chronological order
500
A theory that tries to answer questions about the past and which can be tested against the evidence provided by a historian’s sources
What is a hypothesis
500

The expression of someone’s personal viewpoint, feelings or attitude. People can not prove this to be true or false.

What is an opinion

500
In an attempt to develop a system of dating that people of all cultures and religions will accept. Historians have come up with two ‘neutral’ terms to use with this dating system. CE replaces AD.
What is ‘common era’ (CE)
500

When Mungo Man’s body was discovered, it had been laid out carefully. What 2 things told us this ?

  • (Hands clasped together)

  • (Ochre) had been spread over the body during burial, which indicates a cultural practice of the time around which he was buried.