B.C./A.D?
Vocabulary
Hominids
Finding Lucy
Sources
100

B.C. in a timeline stands for this.

What is Before Christ?

100

The study of things in the past.

What is history?

100

Lucy, humans, and chimpanzees are all this.

What are primates or hominids?

100

Lucy was found on this continent.

What is Africa?

100

An source created as the event is happening. 

What is a primary source?

200

B.C.E. stands for this on a timeline.

What is Before the Common Era?

200

The study of the ancient past through artifacts and remains. 

What is archaeology?

200

An type of organism that nurses its young, has live births, and hair. (Lucy, humans, and chimpanzees all belong to this order)

What is a mammal?

200

Term that describes an animal that walks upright on two feet. 

What is a bipedal?

200

A source created after the event has occurred. 

What is a secondary source?

300

On a timeline C.E. stands for this.

What is Common Era?

300

An object made by a human being.

What is an artifact?

300

The first discovered hominid to have walked upright?

Who is Lucy?

300

The country in which Lucy was found.

What is Ethiopia?

300

A place, person, or thing from which information comes or can be obtained.

What is a source?

400

A.D. stands for and means this on a timeline.

What is Anno Domini? and "year of our Lord?

400

Available FACTS or DATA collected to determine if an an idea is true.

What is evidence?

400

Two characteristics Lucy shares wtih a human. 

What are...

pelvic bone, angled thigh bone, arched feet, or stragith spine

400

The song for which Lucy was named.

What is the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?"

400

Modern scientific evidence that has been used to free many wrongfully convicted people. 

What is DNA evidence? 

500

Historians now use CE/BCE rather than AD/BC on timelines for this reason.

What are varied religious and cultural systems using the timeline system?

500

Representing events by starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred.

What is chronological?

500

Two characteristics Lucy shares with a chimpanzee. 

What are...

same size skull, long arms/hands, height, strong shoulders

500

Lucy's name. 

What is "Australipithecus Afarensis??

500

A person, thing, or source that is trustworthy. 

What is reliable?