History Skills

Question 1

What is a Primary source?

Answer 1

A primary source is something that is new from the past.

Question 2

What is a Secondary source?

Answer 2

A Secondary source is something that is something that is new from the past.

Question 3

What does the term BC mean?

Answer 3

Before Christ

Question 4

What does the term AD mean?

Answer 4

Ano Domini

Question 5

What does the term BCE mean?

Answer 5

Before the Common Era

Question 6

What does the term CE mean?

Answer 6

Common Era

Question 7

What is archeology?

Answer 7

The study of human history and prehistory.

Question 8

What is the study of archeology?

Answer 8

Rocks,fossils ect…

Question 9

What is the prehistoric ERA?

Answer 9

A period before time

Question 10

What is the Ancient era?

Answer 10

Ancient history

Question 11

What is the modern era?

Answer 11

A period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became accessible.

Question 12

What is the Ancient Civiliation?

Answer 12

The first settle and stable communities that became the basis for later.

Question 13

What are timelines?

Answer 13

Timelines are something that goes in order.

Example: from when you were born to when you die.

Question 14

What is a century?

Answer 14

A period of one hundred years.

Question 15

What is an millennium?

Answer 15

A period of one thousand years.

Question 16

Is a photograph from 122BC primary or secondary?

Answer 16

Primary

Question 17

Is a photograph from 2008 Primary or Secondary?

Answer 17

Secondary

Question 18

Who were the Zealots?

Answer 18

People who escaped from Rome

Question 19

Define Anachronism?

Answer 19

When someone is placed in historical time.

Question 20

Define Chronology?

Answer 20

Picking events and dates in historical time.

Question 21

What is a decade?

Answer 21

Ten years

Question 22

What is the role of plebeians?

Answer 22

To free all Roman citizens

Question 23

What is the role of patricians?

Answer 23

They are rich and powerful

Question 24

What are slaves?

Answer 24

They were given services to do

Question 25

What are consoles?

Answer 25

They were responsible for carrying

Question 26

What were tribunes?

Answer 26

They were the title of various elected officials

Question 27

What countries did they trade with?

Answer 27

Spain, France and North Africa

Question 28

What countries did they conquest with?

Answer 28

England, Spain and France

Question 29

What countries did they warfare with?

Answer 29

Roman kingdom, Roman republic and the Roman Empire

Question 30

What was Julius Caesar’s role?

Answer 30

He built a building program to repair huge damage caused by the civil wars. He demolished the remains of the old senate and built a new one. He dedicated a temple to the goddess Venus of his family.

Question 31

What was Augustus’s role?

Answer 31

He left behind a rich legacy of written archaeological evidence, he brought peace and ended the civil war.

Question 32

Explain the role of the Roman army?

Answer 32

The Romans brought in other countries to fight against other countries.

Question 33

Describe the everyday life of men, women and children in Ancient Rome?

Answer 33

For rich Romans, they lived in nice houses away from noise and smell. For poorer Romans, they lived in shabby houses that could collapse or burn down.