History

Question 1

What is a historian

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What do historians use to find there answer

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What are the three different types of sources

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is a primary source

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is a secondary source

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What does AD stand for?

Answer 6

Ad stands for anno domino

Question 7

What does bc stand for?

Answer 7

Before Christ

Question 8

What does Ce stand for?

Answer 8

Ce stands for common era so the time it is now

Question 9

What does Bce stand for?

Answer 9

Bce stands for before common era

Question 10

What time period was the 13 th century in

Answer 10

The thirteenth century was in the years 1200-1299

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

Question 11

How long is a millennium

Answer 11

A millennium is 1000 years

Question 12

Who is otzi

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What is a century

Answer 13

A century is a 100 years

Question 14

What is chronological order?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

There are 365 days in a year

Question 17

How many years in a decade

Answer 17

There Are ten years in a decade

Question 18

What was the year Jesus was born

Answer 18

Jesus was born in the year 0

Question 19

Is a museum display a primary or secondary source

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Is the Internet a first or secondary source of info

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Around what year did otzi live

Answer 21

It is said that otzi lived in the years 3300 Bce

Question 22

What is an Artefact

Answer 22

An artefact is something made by humans

Question 23

What is an archeologist

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What do archeologists look for

Answer 24

Archeologists mostly look for
Fossils
Artefacts
And structures

Question 25

What did men mostly use to hunt for food or people

Answer 25

Men mostly used bones stone and deer antlers which they then carved into a variety of weapons

Question 26

What was the main things people had to use 10-20 thousands of years ago to cope with the ice age

Answer 26

In the ice age it was hard to survive. The people who did often hunted sheep, mammoths or rhinoceros for there thick warm wool

Question 27

Where would hunters or foragers live in the ice age

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Approximately when did the Bronze Age start?

Answer 28

The Bronze Age was approximately 7000 bc

Question 29

What was the main things people had to use 10-20 thousands of years ago to cope with the ice age

Answer 29

In the ice age it was hard to survive. The people who did often hunted sheep, mammoths or rhinoceros for there thick warm wool

Question 30

Where would hunters or foragers live in the ice age

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What is an antrotholopolious

Answer 31

Antrotholopolious’ study human development including behaviour, human origin and cultural development

Question 32

What is a cryptographer

Answer 32

A cryptographer is somone who makes, studies and deciphers codes and writing systems

Question 33

Why do you need scientific expertise

Answer 33

You need help from scientists as you have to find out, when it was made, what it was made from and what it is