History Flashcards

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What is a historian

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Historians are like detectives and pick up clues left by others from the past

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What do historians use to find there answer

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Historians use sources to find the answer of the thing they are looking for

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What are the three different types of sources

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The three different types of sources historians use are
Written. A book or something
Spoken. A video
Physical sources. Photos

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What is a primary source

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A primary source Is something where you get the information from first hand experience.

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What is a secondary source

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Secondary sources are written told or made after the event by somone who wasn’t there.

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What does AD stand for?

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Ad stands for anno domino

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What does bc stand for?

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Before Christ

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What does Ce stand for?

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Ce stands for common era so the time it is now

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What does Bce stand for?

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Bce stands for before common era

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What time period was the 13 th century in

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The thirteenth century was in the years 1200-1299

You need to remember that the century what it says means the century before it.

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How long is a millennium

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A millennium is 1000 years

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Who is otzi

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Otzi is the ice man who was found in the otzial alps of Northern Austria where died and had been froze for years

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What is a century

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A century is a 100 years

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What is chronological order?

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Chronological order is from the longest time ago to the closest time ago

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Does an anno Domini and common era move forward in time or back in time

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Ce ( common era ) and ad (anno Domini) move forward in time

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16
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How many days in a year ( not a leap year )

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There are 365 days in a year

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How many years in a decade

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There Are ten years in a decade

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What was the year Jesus was born

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Jesus was born in the year 0

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Is a museum display a primary or secondary source

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A museum display is a primary source as you can physically touch and see it.

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Is the Internet a first or secondary source of info

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Secondary source as half the stuff on it was from old days

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Around what year did otzi live

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It is said that otzi lived in the years 3300 Bce

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What is an Artefact

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An artefact is something made by humans

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What is an archeologist

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Somone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by other generations

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What do archeologists look for

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Archeologists mostly look for
Fossils
Artefacts
And structures

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What did men mostly use to hunt for food or people
Men mostly used bones stone and deer antlers which they then carved into a variety of weapons
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What was the main things people had to use 10-20 thousands of years ago to cope with the ice age
In the ice age it was hard to survive. The people who did often hunted sheep, mammoths or rhinoceros for there thick warm wool
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Where would hunters or foragers live in the ice age
Hunters and foragers would constantly be on the move in the ice age. Although they would usually try to find a cave or a low valley to protect them from the cold climates
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Approximately when did the Bronze Age start?
The Bronze Age was approximately 7000 bc
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What was the main things people had to use 10-20 thousands of years ago to cope with the ice age
In the ice age it was hard to survive. The people who did often hunted sheep, mammoths or rhinoceros for there thick warm wool
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Where would hunters or foragers live in the ice age
Hunters and foragers would constantly be on the move in the ice age. Although they would usually try to find a cave or a low valley to protect them from the cold climates
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What is an antrotholopolious
Antrotholopolious' study human development including behaviour, human origin and cultural development
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What is a cryptographer
A cryptographer is somone who makes, studies and deciphers codes and writing systems
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Why do you need scientific expertise
You need help from scientists as you have to find out, when it was made, what it was made from and what it is