Introduction Flashcards
What is the benefit of bias?
Lets you find out about events, beliefs or opinions
What are the four types of evidence?
Written, oral, visual, physical
Written evidence
Newspapers, autobiographies, diaries
Oral evidence
DVD, music, radio
Visual evidence
Drawing, painting, poster
Physical evidence
Bones, pottery, ruins
What is primary evidence
First hand evidence, comes from the event.
Secondary evidence
second hand evidence, written after the event happened e.g. school textbook
chronology
time, date, periods, decades, AD BC
cause and consequence
long term, short term, results of events, reasons of event
awareness of evidence
oral evidence, physical evidence, visual evidence, written evidence
what is bias
Where someone has an unbalanced opinion
What does a historian do?
An Historian gathers evidence to find out more about the past.
What is the benefit of bias?
Let’s you find out about events, beliefs or opinions.
