History Flashcards
What does the M stand for in OMACPRU?
The M stands for Motive
What does the A stand for in OMACPRU?
The A stands for Audience
What does the C stand for in OMACPRU?
The C stands for Content
What does the P stand for in OMACPRU?
The P stands for Perspective
What does the R stand for in OMACPRU?
The R stands for Reliability
What does the U stand for in OMACPRU?
The U stands for usefulness
What does the O stand for in OMACPRU?
The O stands Origin
What’s a primary source?
A primary source is a source that is created in the time provided
What’s a secondary source?
A secondary source is a reconstruction of the past by people living at a later time
What does an Archeologist do?
An Archeologist is a person who investigates the past by digging up objects from the ground.
What does an Anthropologist study?
An Anthropologist study’s human development, including human behaviour, physical, social and cultural development.
What does a Cryptographer study?
A Cryptographer study’s codes and writing systems
What does a scientific expert study?
A scientific expert study’s the sciences and scientific methods to provide evidence about such things as artefacts or human remains.
What does a linguist study?
A linguist study’s the nature and structure of language
What does a Palaeontologist study?
A palaeontologist study’s plant and animal fossils
What’s a Hypothesis?
A Hypothesis is a theory.
What does cremated mean?
To burn a dead body so that it is reduced to ash.
What does thermoluminescence mean?
It involves scientists heating objects.
What does stratigraphy mean?
It helps them work out how an archeologist site has changed.
What does a hunter-forager mean?
People who live by hunting animals
What does civilisation mean?
A society that has developed towns and has a complex forms of art,science,religion and government
What is a megafauna?
They are extinct species of large animals (from mega meaning huge or great)
What does radio carbon mean?
It relies on the fact that all living things absorb carbon.
What does DNA analysis mean?
It means it’s useful for solving mysteries from history
What is a source?
Written or non-written items that can provide information the past
What does experimental archeology mean?
Sometimes archeologists used experimental archeology to test how something was created
What does the term dynasty mean?
Period of time during which one family controls government.
List the features in the Shang dynasty?
Script similar to modern Chinese
Left written record on oracle bones
Oracle bones provided information on farming,hunting,fishing,religious customs and warfare
Produced huge quantaties of bronze
What is the Mandate of Heaven ?
Mandate of Heaven is the Idea that the leader can rule for as long as the gods judged his every action.
What is feudalism and who introduced it?
Feudalism is the idea that the leaders give land to local leaders( nobles) who promised to provide armies, animals,grains and farm labour.
Shang dynasty introduced it.
What was the warring of the states?
The warring state period happened because the nobels tried to gain power and it lead up to 150 different states fighting one another and only 7 remaind. Qin Shi huangdi won and became the FIRST emperor of China because of his ruthless fighting techniques and beheading his enemies.
What did Qin Shi Huangdi do to secure his power?
Qin Shi Huangdi secured his power by keeping his enemies close by making a capital city and keeping all of his enemies close together, he also collected all the weapons in the country and melted them down to make new ones for his army only and also established one central government which would reunite the people who fought one another.
How long did Qin Shi Huangdis rule last for?
It lasted from c. 221-206 BCE
What was found in some of the important rivers?
Loess, a type of yellow mud that acted as good earth for growing food and helped keep people cool in the humid weather in summer.
What was the physical feature of ancient Egypt?
The Nile river, it provided a source of food, electricity and good vegetation for the plants to grow in and many Egyptians lived near the Nile
What was life like for children in ancient Egypt.
Most children worked at the age of 8 and got married at the age of 12-14
List the people that make a social pyramid?
Pharaoh Senior official Scribes Artisans Peasant farmers Servants/ slaves
What was the book of the dead?
The book of the dead contained spells or prayers to help decrease any danger in the journey through the afterlife.
What is ma’at?
Ma’at is the goddess who represented justice,truth,order and balance.
What did the term “great house mean”
It meant the pharaoh
What does AD mean?
AD means ‘Anno Domini’
What does BC mean?
BC means ‘before Christ’
What does BCE mean?
BCE means ‘ before common era’
What does CE mean?
CE means ‘common era’
What Is an achronism?
An achronism is an object, place or person placed outside its time period.
