Time and Chronology
The study of time is called this.
What is Chronology?
This professional creates maps as their job.
What is a cartographer?
Objects made and used by people in the past, such as tools or pottery, are known as these.
What are artifacts?
This term refers to the background information that helps us better understand a historical event.
What is context?
Without evidence, a claim is just a wild guess; but with evidence, a claim becomes this type of argument.
What is a logical argument?
AD stands for Anno Domini, which translates from Latin to mean this.
What is "The Year of Our Lord"
This map feature shows the four cardinal directions: North, East, South, and West.
What is a compass rose?
A Civil War soldier's personal diary entry is an example of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
Each individual story or unique point of view about an event is called a what?
What is a perspective?
Comparing multiple pieces of evidence to check where they agree or disagree is called this.
What is corroboration?
The Latin word, Circa, means this.
What is about or around?
This part of a map describes the meanings behind the symbols printed on the map.
What is a legend or key?
A 5th-grade U.S. history textbook is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
To properly contextualize an event's time and place, historians analyze the physical environment and which era it occurred in, along with this location element.
What is where the event took place?
The evaluation process where other historical experts review and evaluate a newly published theory is called this.
What is peer review?
If a historical year does not include BC or AD, it is assumed to be this.
What is AD?
This specific type of map shows human-made borders such as states, countries, and cities.
What is a political map?
Secondary sources are created by doing these two actions to primary sources.
What are summarizing and interpreting?
Why is it risky for a historian to only look at a single perspective when studying an event?
What is because the story might be incomplete or wrong?
Carvings of "CRO" and "CROATAN" found by John White served as evidence for a famous historical theory regarding which missing group?
Who are the Roanoke colonists?
Name the four larger blocks of time defined in history, ordered from shortest to longest span of years.
What are a decade (10 years), century (100 years), millennium (1,000 years), and an era or age?
Name the type of map that displays expected weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is a climate map?
Explain why a newspaper report can be considered a primary source.
What is because it was written by a reporter who directly experienced the event or quoted people who experienced it?
Name the three main broad categories historians examine when contextualizing the past.
What are Time & Place, Society & Culture, and Influences & Impacts?
In the "M.E.A.L." strategy for making a historical claim, state what each letter stands for.
What is Main idea, Evidence, Analysis, and Link?