Lesson 2 Vocabulary
Something that shows proof something is true.
How long is a decade?
10 years
Which calendar do we use today?
The Gregorian Calendar
What is it called when a year has an extra day?
leap year
What is history?
The study of people and events of the past.
What is an artifact?
Objects made by people
A palentologist primarily studies what objects?
What is an example of a primary source?
A timeline is an example of what items that we studied in Literacy class this week?
Text Feature
What is a point of view? What is your point of view about homework?
A point of view is how someone feels or thinks about something. My point of view about homework is...
What is a fossil?
Remains of plant or animal life preserved from an earlier time.
The time before writing was invented is called what?
prehistory
What is an example of a secondary source?
a book, a newpaper article, or a song about an event.
What did they name the three foot skeleton that they found?
Lucy
Explain the difference between a primary source and a secondary source.
A primary source is close to an event, like an artifact from the event or an interview with someone who was there.
A secondary source is farther away from the event, like someone wrote about the event or painted a picture of it, but they weren't at the event.
What is a species?
A species is a class of individuals with similar characteristics.
The Calendar that was used before the Gregorian calendar was called the
Julian calendar
A historian uses information from primary sources to do what?
Was Genghis Khan a good or bad leader?
Give either answer supported with proof.
examples
good because his people were happy and had a good life
bad because he killed many people and took peoples land
Explain historian's bias.
Each historian has his or her own ideas and experiences that could affect how he or she looks at historical objects or events.
Define 2 correctly archeology, paleontology and anthropology.
archeology- study of the past
paleontology-study of prehistoric times
anthropology-study of human culture
What does A.D. stand for and what does it mean?
Anno domini
in the year of our lord
What is an inference? Give an example of an inference a historian might make about our lives in 2020 from a 2020 artifact of a mask, if there were no written records.
example
mask-they had ugly faces or breathing problems, something wrong with the air?
Finish this famous quote, "Those who don't study history are..."
"doomed to repeat it."