The historian Flashcards
What is a secondary source?
A secondary source is information or evidence that comes from the past.
What is primary source?
A primary source is taken directly from the past
What is a biography?
A biography is a book someone wrights about them-self.
What is an autobiography?
An autobiography is a book that someone wrights about you.
What is a census?
A census is a data collection of people
What is bias?
The views of the author have to be considered.
Newspapers can be very biased.
What is propaganda?
This is the way of a presenting information (sometimes false information)
What is a manuscript?
A manuscript is any document written by hand,
as opposed of being printed or reproduced in another way.
What is a decade?
A decade is ten years.
What is a century?
A century is one hundred years
What is a millennium?
A millennium is a thousand years?
What is archive?
Archive is a collection of historical documents
What is a historian?
A historian is a person who researches information from the past
What is an archaeologist?
An archaeologist is a person who studies artefacts
