Key Words-ch1

Question 1

What is history

Answer 1

History is the study of the past

Question 2

A source?

Answer 2

Sources are something that give us information about a person place or thing

Question 3

Prehistory?

Answer 3

Prehistory is the period of time before writing was used

Question 4

Archaeology?

Answer 4

Archaeology is the study of remains left by people in the past.

Question 5

Archaeology?

Answer 5

Archaeology is the study of remains left by people in the past.

Question 6

Historical consciousness

Answer 6

Being able to place ourselves in past human experiences, linking the past, present and future.

Question 7

A historian?

Answer 7

Someone who is highly or an expert in history.

Question 8

An archaeologist?

Answer 8

Someone who investigates places and objects in the past including the prehistory time.

Question 9

Cross checking?

Answer 9

Checking a source (website,book etc) more than one time to make sure it’s true.

Question 10

A historical repository?

Answer 10

A place where evidence of the past can be stored and maintained

Question 11

An archive?

Answer 11

A place where sources/written sources are stored and collected.

Question 12

A museum?

Answer 12

A place they collects artefacts/objects for public appreciation and eduction.

Question 13

A primary source?

Answer 13

A source from that time in question; a first hand account of what happened, EG (artefacts, newspapers, diaries etc)

Question 14

Secondary source?

Answer 14

A source from a later time in question after the date that it happened in. EG (websites, biographies, podcasts etc)

Question 15

An artefact?

Answer 15

Any human made object, EG (pottery, tool, weapon etc)

Question 16

Census?

Answer 16

An official survey of a persons life written by themselves.

Question 17

Autobiography?

Answer 17

An account of a persons life written by themselves.

Question 18

Biography?

Answer 18

An account of a persons life written by someone else.

Question 19

A handling box?

Answer 19

A box containing replicas (copies) of artefacts so that anyone can examine them /touch them without damaging an original.

Question 20

Accuracy?

Answer 20

Judging how correct the information you are using is.

Question 21

Bias?

Answer 21

When an account is not balanced, but unfairly favours one side.

Question 22

Exaggeration?

Answer 22

When something is represented as better or worse than it actually was.

Question 23

Propaganda?

Answer 23

Information that has been designed to influence the attitudes and behaviours of the public.

Question 24

A tactile source?

Answer 24

A source that can be touched. EG, a physical object like an artefact.

Question 25

Chronology?

Answer 25

To put events into sequence in which they happened.

Question 26

Reinterpretation?

Answer 26

To see something in a new or different light.