History

Question 1

Define Archaeology?

Answer 1

Focuses on the physical evidence left behind from the past.

Question 2

What is a Archaeologist?

Answer 2

Use technology to help them find places to dig

Question 3

Define Stratigraphy?

Answer 3

It allows archaeologists to put the remains of the past

Question 4

Define Excavation?

Answer 4

When archaeologists dig into the earth to find artefacts

Question 5

Define Chronological?

Answer 5

It gathers information about the past.

Question 6

Define Artefacts?

Answer 6

They are items that have been made by people.

Question 7

Who is the Father of History?

Answer 7

Herodotus is the Father of History and he was a Greek Historian famous for writing ‘The Historians’.

Question 8

Define History?

Answer 8

History is the story of Peoples lives from past times.

Question 9

What is Chronology?

Answer 9

Chronology helps determine the contexts of a source and its author.

Question 10

What does BC mean?

Answer 10

It means before Christ.

Question 11

What does CE mean?

Answer 11

it means Common era

Question 12

What does BCE mean?

Answer 12

it means before common era

Question 13

What does AD mean?

Answer 13

it means anno domini

Question 14

What is dating?

Answer 14

it is two kinds of dating: relative and absolute.

Question 15

What is Relative dating?

Answer 15

relative dating provides the order of events in the past but does not give a precise year.

Question 16

What is Absolute dating?

Answer 16

Absolute dating is a scientific and modern method of dating artefacts.

Question 17

What is Dendrochronology?

Answer 17

It is Tree-ring dating.

Question 18

Define source?

Answer 18

A written or no-written item that provides information about the past.

Question 19

What is Heritage?

Answer 19

All of the things that we value from the past, including events, traditions, influences, places and experience.

Question 20

What are historians?

Answer 20

It is someone trained to investigate and write about the past.

Question 21

What is conservation?

Answer 21

The preservation and protection of artefacts or relics.

Question 22

What is hypothesis?

Answer 22

A possible theory to explain what happened.

Question 23

What is evidence?

Answer 23

Information found within a source that can be used to prove or disprove something.

Question 24

What is Perspective?

Answer 24

A person’s point of view or attitude.

Question 25

How do Archaeologists know where to look when searching for Artefacts?

Answer 25

Archaeologist use air balloons as a economical way of finding these sites.

Question 26

What are the 3 Types of Relative dating and give a short summary for each?

Answer 26

-Typology: It is when an object is classified based on its physical features. -Association: It is when an object is given a date based on the known date. -Stratigraphy: It allows archaeologist to put the remains of the past.

Question 27

What are the 3 types of Absolute dating and give a short summary.

Answer 27

-Radiocarbon It is used for any item that was once alive by measuring the level of carbon-14. -Thermoluminescence Determines how much time has gone by since the item was last exposed to sunlight . -Dendrochronology It is a Tree-ring dating

Question 28

What is Primary source?

Answer 28

Primary sources are first-hand evidence of something happening, or being thought or said.

Question 29

What is Secondary source?

Answer 29

Secondary sources are second-hand, published accounts of a person, place, event or thing.

Question 30

Why is it important to preserve the past?

Answer 30

It connects us to specific times, places and events.

Question 31

How can we preserve the past in Museums?

Answer 31

Providing climate controlled environments and creating replicas to put on display

Question 32

How can we preserve the past on Archaeological sites?

Answer 32

Leave artefacts alone and Don't touch rock art.

Question 33

Who is Herodotus and why is he significant?

Answer 33

Herodotus is a Greek historian famous for writing 'The historians' and he is significant because he also provides an insight into the contemporary Mediterranean world.

Question 34

What is Strata?

Answer 34

Strata are layers of Earth, or sometimes soil.

Question 35

What is the order of the Hierachy?

Answer 35

Pharaoh, Nobels chief officials and priests, Merchants and scribes, peasants, slaves.