History Flashcards
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Concerned with academic learning or research.
Scholarly
Firsthand evidence of an event in history.
Primary source
An unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events.
Bias
Qualifications or something that gives confidence.
Credentials
A final decision reached by reasoning.
Conclusion
Work created after an event.
Secondary source
To present someone’s work as your own without giving that person credit.
Plagiarize
Address of an online resource.
URL
Address of a government Web site.
.gov
General attitude about people or life.
Point of view
Web address of an educational institution.
.edu
Study of the past using fossils.
Paleontology
A large division of time.
Era
Study of ancient history by looking at what people left behind.
Archeaology
Plant or animal remains that have been captured in rock
Fossil