Skills

Question 1

What is chronology?

Answer 1

Chronology is the study of when things happened chronology involves putting events and dates into the correct order of when they occur

Question 2

What is a decade?

Answer 2

10years

Question 3

What is a century?

Answer 3

100 years

Question 4

What is a millennia?

Answer 4

1000years

Question 5

What is AD?

Answer 5

This is the time after christs birth

Question 6

What does BC mean?

Answer 6

Before christs birth

Question 7

What is a week?

Answer 7

7 days long

Question 8

What is one day?

Answer 8

24 hours long

Question 9

Why is chronology important?

Answer 9

When we put them in chronological order we put them in the order they happened. By placing them in chronological or Eder we can discover interesting things about why things happen. This is when history gets interesting

Question 10

What are s the formula for working out centuries?

Answer 10

2009=21st century

20(+1)09=21st century

Question 11

Dealing with AD and BC?

Answer 11

The greater the date in BC the further away it is from now, the greater AD the closer it is to now

Question 12

What is cause and consequence?

Answer 12

Historians are like detectives trying to understand what happened in the past and why it happened in the past. The concept of cause and consequence address who or what influenced events to occur and what the repercussions of those events were

Question 13

What is there in cause and consequence?

Answer 13

There are long and short term causes of an event in most cases. There is more than one cause of an event

Question 14

What is change and continuity?

Answer 14

Change is what is different from the past and continuity is what stays the same

Question 15

What is bias and interpretation?

Answer 15

Interpretations from primary evidence such as an eyewitness accounts are important for historians in investigating what happened in the past and how people felt at the time.

Question 16

What about interpretations from secondary evidence?

Answer 16

Interpretations from secondary sources such as textbooks are very useful to us. Historians would have looked at lots of different pieces of primary evidence to come up with their own opinion or interpretation as to why events happened or what life was like then

Question 17

What is primary evidence?

Answer 17

This is first hand evidence that comes from the time in which in the event took place for example an eyewitness account or a diary.

Question 18

What is secondary evidence?

Answer 18

This is evidence written after the event happens for example a school textbook.

Question 19

What is an anachronism?

Answer 19

When historians mix up things from the wrong time periods it is called an anachronism for example an Egyptian pharaoh using a mobile phone to ring there doctor.