Measures of Time
A time span of 10 years.
What is a decade?
This is another term for CE.
What is AD?
This is a source that is a second-hand account of an event or time period.
What is a secondary source?
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?
The order of events on a timeline are called
What is numerical order?
A time span of 100 years.
What is a century?
True or False:
There is a year 0 between A.D. 1 and 1 B.C.
False
This type of source was written or created by the people who experienced an event.
What is a primary source?
Another word for Periods could be called
What is an Era?
This abbreviation refers to the time period after the death of Jesus Christ.
What is AD?
A time span of 1000 years.
What is a millennium?
List the first and last years in the 21st Century
What is 2001-2100?
Of the following examples listed, this is a secondary source: a senate meeting's attendance log, Anne Frank's journal, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, a spear found at a dig site.
What is a biography of Abraham Lincoln?
The reason historians study history?
a) To predict the future b) To make choices and solve problems
c) To create fictional narratives d) To memorize dates
What is b) To make choices and solve problems?
An object of interest to a historian or archaeologist.
What is an artifact?
The number of centuries in a millennium.
What is 10?
This year is before A.D. 1
What is the year B.C 1?
Of the following examples, this is an example of a primary source - A History textbook, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, A website containing information about ancient Rome, A biography of Leonardo Da' Vinci.
What is Martin Luther King's speech?
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?
This number of years totals up to 4 decades, plus two centuries, minus 7decades.
What is 170 years?
These are the four time measurements we've covered ranked in order from smallest to greatest.
What is decade, century, millennium, and era?
This is the earliest date out of - 550BCE, 1300BC, CE400, and 150AD.
What is 1300 BC?
This is the proof that something is true.
What is evidence?
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?
This is the best teacher in the whole world who has candy for you.
Who is Coach Butler?