Chapter 1 the archaeologist

Question 0

Prehistoric.

Answer 0

Prehistoric is before people could write.

Question 1

What is history?

Answer 1

History is the study of the past.

Question 2

Historic.

Answer 2

Historic is after people could write.

Question 3

Sources.

Answer 3

Sources are a way of finding history.

Question 4

Primary sources.

Answer 4

Primary sources are the original accounts of an event in the past.

Question 5

Secondary sources.

Answer 5

Secondary sources are accounts of an event in history at a later time.

Question 6

Archaeology.

Answer 6

The studies of artefacts from our ancestors.

Question 7

Manuscript.

Answer 7

A hand written book or newspaper from the past.

Question 8

A.D.

Answer 8

Anno Domini.

Question 9

B.C.

Answer 9

Before Christ.

Question 10

Artefacts.

Answer 10

Artefacts are physical things from the past.

Question 11

Excavate.

Answer 11

To dig a hole or a channel.

Question 12

Autobiography.

Answer 12

A book a person about their own life.

Question 13

Biography.

Answer 13

A book written about someone’s life by another person.

Question 14

Cross checking.

Answer 14

To determine the accuracy of something.

Question 15

Bias.

Answer 15

To automatically favour someone’s side.

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Accuracy.

Answer 16

To get something in the right place.

Question 17

Exageration.

Answer 17

To make something appear much more than it actually is.

Question 18

Propaganda.

Answer 18

Information of a misleading nature.

Question 19

Chronology.

Answer 19

It is the order in which events of the past occurred in the correct order.

Question 20

Century.

Answer 20

100 years.

Question 21

Millennium.

Answer 21

1000 years.