Chapter 1 the archaeologist Flashcards
Prehistoric.
Prehistoric is before people could write.
What is history?
History is the study of the past.
Historic.
Historic is after people could write.
Sources.
Sources are a way of finding history.
Primary sources.
Primary sources are the original accounts of an event in the past.
Secondary sources.
Secondary sources are accounts of an event in history at a later time.
Archaeology.
The studies of artefacts from our ancestors.
Manuscript.
A hand written book or newspaper from the past.
A.D.
Anno Domini.
B.C.
Before Christ.
Artefacts.
Artefacts are physical things from the past.
Excavate.
To dig a hole or a channel.
Autobiography.
A book a person about their own life.
Biography.
A book written about someone’s life by another person.
Cross checking.
To determine the accuracy of something.
Bias.
To automatically favour someone’s side.
Accuracy.
To get something in the right place.
Exageration.
To make something appear much more than it actually is.
Propaganda.
Information of a misleading nature.
Chronology.
It is the order in which events of the past occurred in the correct order.
Century.
100 years.
Millennium.
1000 years.
