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HISTORY-yearly Flashcards

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What is a primary source?

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They are artefacts such as grave stones and war memorials, they are also personal sources such as letters, diaries,personal narratives, photographs, paintings, memories and oral history.

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What is a secondary source?

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Sources produced after the period of interest, may include histories written centuries after the event, later newspapers, accounts, biographies, documentaries, political commentaries and encyclopaedia

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How many dynasty are in China

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25

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4
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Define historian

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Someone trained to investigate and write about the past.

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Define source

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Written and non written items that can provide info about the past

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Define archaeologist

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Someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by earlier societies and civilisations

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Define hypothesis

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a theory that tries to explain some aspect of the pasta d which can be tested against the evidence found in historical sources.

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Define stratigraphy

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Distinct layers of material beneath the ground, built up over time, that provides information for archaeologists and geolosts

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Define archaeology

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Archaeology is the study of physical remains of the past to learn about lives of humans in older societies than our own.

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What does OMACPRU stand for?

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O- origin
M- motivation
A- audience 
C-context 
P- perspective 
R- reliability
U- usefulness
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What is the definition of Evidence

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Information found within a source that proves or disproves something.

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Definition of X ray art

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Painting style showing the bones and internal organs of the supernatural beings, human beings and animals

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Definition of Bias

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Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair

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What does the expert Linguists do?

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They study the nature and structure of language, how it has changed over time and the language styles used in a certain types of documents and in particular time periods.

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Definition Of chronological order

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The order in which events happen, from the earlier to the most recent

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What does the expert Anthropologists do?

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They Studying human development, including human origin, behaviour, and physical, social and cultural development.

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What does the expert palaeontologists do?

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They Investigate plant and animal fossils to study the biology of past life forms to work out such things as how the Earth has evolved overtime and the nature of plants and animals that have become extinct in the process

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What do the expert Cryptographers do?

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They study, create and decipher codes and writing systems.

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Definition of Experimental Archaeology

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The attempt to test a hypothesis about the process by which something was created in the past, eg. By testing building techniques to discover how people built something.

20
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Definition of Empathetic understanding

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The ability to see the past through the eyes and different view points of its participants

21
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Why do we need to study history?

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  • To understand our world
  • how it has changed over time
  • and what the world can become in the next years
22
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Person responsible for day to day government in one region of Egypt

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Nomarch

23
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Egyptian process of preserving bodies

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Embalming

24
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An area near the mouth of a river

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Delta

25
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The device used to measure the height of the Nile

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Nilometer

26
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A family of rulers

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Dynasty

27
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Important events in ancient Egypt

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Great Pyramids of Giza (2506 BC)
Great Sphinx (2500BC)
Valley of the Kings (1500 BC)
Luxor temple (1400BC)

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Important people in ancient Egypt

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Hatshepsut - born 1508bc
Tutankhamen - born 1308bc
Ramesses 2 - born 1341bc
Cleopatra - born 69bc

29
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When was the old kingdom

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C. 2686-2181 BCE

30
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Who discovered tutanhamuns tomb, where and when

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Howard Carter

In the valley of the kings, near Thebes in 1922

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Tutanhamuns death

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Died c. 1323 BCE age 18

32
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Egyptian inventions

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The sundial, water clock, the cubit, the deben

33
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Papyrus

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A plant made into flattened strips in which you wrote

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