HISTORY-yearly Flashcards
What is a primary source?
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.
What is a secondary source?
Sources produced after the period of interest, may include histories written centuries after the event, later newspapers, accounts, biographies, documentaries, political commentaries and encyclopaedia
How many dynasty are in China
25
Define historian
Someone trained to investigate and write about the past.
Define source
Written and non written items that can provide info about the past
Define archaeologist
Someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by earlier societies and civilisations
Define hypothesis
a theory that tries to explain some aspect of the pasta d which can be tested against the evidence found in historical sources.
Define stratigraphy
Distinct layers of material beneath the ground, built up over time, that provides information for archaeologists and geolosts
Define archaeology
Archaeology is the study of physical remains of the past to learn about lives of humans in older societies than our own.
What does OMACPRU stand for?
O- origin M- motivation A- audience C-context P- perspective R- reliability U- usefulness
What is the definition of Evidence
Information found within a source that proves or disproves something.
Definition of X ray art
Painting style showing the bones and internal organs of the supernatural beings, human beings and animals
Definition of Bias
Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair
What does the expert Linguists do?
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.
Definition Of chronological order
The order in which events happen, from the earlier to the most recent
What does the expert Anthropologists do?
They Studying human development, including human origin, behaviour, and physical, social and cultural development.
What does the expert palaeontologists do?
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
What do the expert Cryptographers do?
They study, create and decipher codes and writing systems.
Definition of Experimental Archaeology
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.
Definition of Empathetic understanding
The ability to see the past through the eyes and different view points of its participants
Why do we need to study history?
- To understand our world
- how it has changed over time
- and what the world can become in the next years
Person responsible for day to day government in one region of Egypt
Nomarch
Egyptian process of preserving bodies
Embalming
An area near the mouth of a river
Delta
