What Is History

Question 1

Primary source

Answer 1

First hand source of what happened

Question 2

Secondary source

Answer 2

Second hand source of what happened

Question 3

Five sources

Answer 3

Written, visual, aural, oral, tactile.

Question 4

What is the job of a historian?

Answer 4

Find evidence from sources
Cross check (Go to libraries, archives, museums / or internet )

Question 5

Examples of primary sources

Answer 5

Artefacts, diaries, letters, photos, drawings, newspapers, autobiographies, posters.

Question 6

Examples of secondary sources

Answer 6

Movies, biographies history books, textbooks.

Question 7

Accuracy

Answer 7

Judging how correct information is.

Question 8

Bias

Answer 8

Something is not balanced and unfair to one side

Question 9

Exaggeration

Answer 9

Something represented better or worse than it actually is/was

Question 10

Propaganda

Answer 10

Information that has been designed to influence the public.

Question 11

Chronology

Answer 11

Event in the sequence they happened

Question 12

Decades

Answer 12

10 years

Question 13

Centuries

Answer 13

100 years

Question 14

Millennia

Answer 14

1000 years

Question 15

What is the date before Jesus Christ called?

Answer 15

BC/BCE

Question 16

What is a date since Jesus was born?

Answer 16

Siri

Question 17

Re-interpretation

Answer 17

To see in a different light