Half Yearly history

Question 1

What are the 6 w words

Answer 1

Who
What
When
Why
HoW
Where

Question 2

O MAC PRU what does this mean

Answer 2

Origin ( who made the source? When and where was it made?)
Motive (what is the source? What is it’s purpose?)
Audience (who was the intended audience?)
Content ( what is the source? What evidence/information does it give?)
Perspective (what was the context of the composer? Is it one sided?)
Reliability ( does it show bias?)
Usefulness (how can historians use it to learn about the past?)

Question 3

What is archeology?

Answer 3

The study of physical remains of the past.

Question 4

What do archeologists do?

Answer 4

Dig up the past to find and investigate objects left by previous civilisations.

Question 5

What is stratigraphy

Answer 5

The distinct layers of material underneath the ground, built up over time, that provide archeologists and geologists with information and a time line of events.

Question 6

Evidence

Answer 6

Information found within a source that proves or disproves something.

Question 7

Sources

Answer 7

Written and non written items that can provide information about the past.

Question 8

Hypothesis

Answer 8

Theory that tries to investigate some aspect of the past and can be tested against evidence found in historical sources.

Question 9

What is an anthropologist

Answer 9

Studies human developments including origin, behaviour, and physical societal and cultural development

Question 10

What is a cryptographer?

Answer 10

Study, create and decipher codes and writing systems.

Question 11

What is a linguist?

Answer 11

Studies the nature and structure of language and how it has changed over time

Question 12

What is a palaeontologist?

Answer 12

Grandma! :) study the remains of plants and animals to work out the the biology to explain things like how the earth has evolved, and the nature of plants and animals that are now extinct.

Question 13

What is a scientific expert?

Answer 13

Use scientific methods e.g DNA analysis to provide information and check the authenticity of objects.

Question 14

DNA analysis

Answer 14

The identification of the unique characteristics found in the DNA of every living thing in order to solve crimes and historical mysteries.

Question 15

Experimental archeology

Answer 15

Testing theories and hypotheses to explain something e.g testing out varying ways of building a house or boat to explain how it was done.

Question 16

Dendrochronology

Answer 16

Using tree rings to explain. The age and location of origin of wooden objects e.g building or boat. Requires a good cross section to do it.

Question 17

Radiocarbon dating

Answer 17

Testing the age of anything that has lived or come from a living object e.g leather, bone, wood. The less radioactive carbon 14, the older the object.

Question 18

Thermo luminescence

Answer 18

Testing age of stone or clay objects. The more light produced when heated at very high temperatures, the older the object.

Question 19

What is a historian?

Answer 19

Somebody trained to investigate and write about the past.

Question 20

Chronological order

Answer 20

The order events happen from the earliest to the most recent

Question 21

Embalmed

Answer 21

Using herbs and spices to preserve a dead body

Question 22

Primary source

Answer 22

Source created in the time being investigated, usually divided into written or archeological sources

Question 23

Secondary source

Answer 23

Reconstruction of the past by people living at a later time eg books of memories or artwork

Question 24

Why may a primary source not necessarily be better than a secondary source?

Answer 24

People living at the time may lie or exaggerate? They may not be aware of what is actually occurring.
People living at a later time have no reason to lie or exaggerate. They may have access to other information to explain what was happening at the time.

Question 25

Origin of a source

Answer 25

When it came into existence
Where it came from
Who produced it

Question 26

Fact

Answer 26

What really happened. The truth and reality of an event.

Question 27

Opinion

Answer 27

A persons personal viewpoint

Question 28

A reliable source

Answer 28

Is it complete or incomplete
Is it accurate or inaccurate
Is it fact or opinion
Is it biased to be positive or negative
Is it created to make you believe something or act in a certain way.

Question 29

Dreamtime stories

Answer 29

Stories passed on, traditionally in spoken form fro one generation of Aborigine to another to tell of the ancestral beings, the creation of landscapes, and provide guidelines for behaviour.

Question 30

X Ray art

Answer 30

Painting style showing the bones and internal organs of the supernatural beings, humans and animals they portray.

Question 31

Empathetic understanding

Answer 31

The ability to see the past through the eyes and different viewpoints of it’s participants.

Question 32

Perspective

Answer 32

The way of looking and thinking about things.

Question 33

Prejudice

Answer 33

An opinion not based on knowledge or fairness that someone has formed about something or someone usually because of race culture or religion.

Question 34

What is history about?

Answer 34

Asking questions
Creating theories
Collecting information
Searching for clues to produce evidence