Section 1: The Historian

Question 0

Secondary Sources

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The secondary sources are taken information or evidence that comes from a later date. They are based an primary sources but are produced after the event .

Example: T.V documents

Question 1

Primary sources

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Primary sources are taken directly from the past.

Example : 2010 I i was in London

Question 2

Bias

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The views of the author have to be considred.

Question 3

Accuracy

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Sometimes sources can be inaccurate. Many history sites on the Internet have wrong information.

Question 4

Exaggeration

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Making an event appear more important than it really . This can be a major problem .

Question 5

Propaganda

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This is a way of presenting information in order to influence people’s opinions .

Question 6

Time and place

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An old person describing an event that happened fifty years ago may have forgotten key details .

Question 7

Centuries

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A century lasts 100 years .

Question 8

Biography

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The story of person’s life written by another person .

Question 9

Autobiography

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An account of person’s life written by the actual person .

Question 10

Census

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Census in Ireland was at 1911 .

Question 11

Manuscript

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Before the invention of the printing press, all books and documents were written by hand .

Question 12

Prehistory

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The prehistory period is before writing was used . We rely on archeologogy for our evidence in this period .

Question 13

Archeology

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The study of the remains left by our ancestoras .

Question 14

Historians

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The historians study events from the past .