Measures of Time
Timelines
Sources
Historical Thinking
Terms to Know
100

A time span of 10 years.

What is a decade?

100

This is another term for CE.

What is AD?

100

This type of source was written or created by the people who experienced an event.

What is a primary source?

100

When a story can be told from different points of view, they are told using this.

What is perspective?

100

This is "an arrangement of events following one event after another event in time".

What is chronological order?

200

A time span of 100 years.

What is a century?

200

To figure out how many years pass between 400 BCE and 300 AD, you would use this.

What is addition?

200

This is a source that is a second-hand account of an event or time period.

What is a secondary source?

200

A historian may rely on evidence to support a certain position. A final decision is reached by reasoning. This final decision is called

What is a conclusion

200

A form of prejudice, unfair dislike or preference of something.

What is bias?

300

A time span of 1000 years.

What is a millennium?

300

To figure out how many years to passed between 400 BCE and 800 BCE, you would use this.

What is Subtraction?

300

Sources that are reliable and credible usually show proof or an indication that the information found is true. What is another word for that proof or indication?

What is evidence

300

These people  study and write about the human past, dig up and study artifacts made by humans, and study cultures of present humans and their ancestors.

What are historians?

300

AD stands for this.

What is Anno Domini?

400

The number of centuries in a millennium.

What is 10?

400

This is the year that BC/BCE changes to AD/CE.

What is the year 0?

400

If you need a credible source for education, a website ending with this abbreviation may be helpful

What is .EDU

400

This is a great way to avoid plagiarism when writing about history.

What is citing your source/giving credit to someone else for their ideas?

400

An object of interest to a historian or archaeologist. 

What is an artifact?

500

These are the four time measurements we've covered ranked in order from smallest to greatest.

What is decade, century, millennium, and era?

500

This is the earliest date out of - 550BCE, 1300BC, CE400, and 150AD.

What is 1300 BC?

500

This is a name for a source that is credible, or worthy of trust.

What is a reliable source?

500

We can 1.) understand and explain why the present is the way it is, 2.)improve and build upon our present and future. and 3.) learn from our past mistakes so that we don't repeat them.

What are 3 reasons we study history?

500

URL stands for

What is Uniform Resource Locator