The historian key words

Question 0

Primary source

Answer 0

Primary Sources are taken directly from the past

Question 1

Historian

Answer 1

Historians study things from the past

Question 2

Secondary soures

Answer 2

Information or evidence that comes from a later date. They are based on primary sources but are produced after the event.
Example: Textbook/book, biography, T.V. Documentaries, internet,film.

Question 3

Bias

Answer 3

Favouring one side

Question 4

Propaganda

Answer 4

To present information to influence peoples

Question 5

Decade

Answer 5

A period of 10 years

Question 6

Century

Answer 6

A period of a 100 years

Question 7

Millennium

Answer 7

A period of a 1000 years

Question 8

Auto biography

Answer 8

A book that someone wrote about themselves and about their live

Question 9

Biography

Answer 9

Someone who wrote a book about someone else’s live.

Question 10

Census

Answer 10

An official count or survey, especially of a population.

Question 11

Archive

Answer 11

A collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people

Question 12

Archaeology

Answer 12

People who dig up artefacts