Lesson 1
The study of the people and events of the past.
What is History?
A diary or letter
What is an example of a primary source.
a decade.
What is a period of 10 years?
An educational site ends in this URL.
What is .edu?
Another name for middle ages.
What is the Medieval era?
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
Proof that something is true
What is evidence?
A larger block of time.
Era
This website locator tells you a great deal about an online resource.
What is URL?
To avoid religious references, some historians prefer to use these initials for Before Christ
What is B.C.E?
B.C.E
What is Before Common Era?
An unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events.
What is Bias?
A period of a hundred years?
What is a century?
To present the ideas or words of another person as your own.
What is to plagiarize?
Scientists who study artifacts
What are Archaeologists?
The study of fossils
What is Paleontology?
A text book. Something written after an event occurred.
What is a secondary source?
B.C
What is "Before Christ"
Expresses an attitude and cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
Anthropology
What is the study of human culture?
What is Anno Domini?
A personal attitude about people or life.
What is Point of View?
A Millennium
What is a period of 1,000 years?
Something that gives confidence that a person is qualified for a task.
What are credentials?
"The year of our Lord"
What is the Latin translations of Anno Domini?