What Is history

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What’s history

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The study of the past

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What is a a source

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Something that gives us information or evidence about a person, place or thing in the past

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What is prehistory

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Period of time before writing was used

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What is archaeology

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The study of the remains left by people in the past

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What’s historical consciousness

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Being able to place ourselves in past human experience,linking the past, present and the future

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What’s a historian

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Someone who is an expert in, or a student of history

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What’s an archaeologist

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Someone who investigates places and objects left by people in the past

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What’s cross-checking

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When more than one source is used to make sure information is correct

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What’s a historical repository

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A place where evidence of the past can be stored and maintained

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What’s an archive

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A place that catalogues and stores a collection of written and other sources

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What’s a museum

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A place that collects and displays objects for public display and appreciation

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What’s a primary source

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A source from the time in question

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What’s a secondary source

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A source from a later date, after the time in question

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What’s an artefact

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Any human-made object o eject e.g pottery, tools

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What’s a census

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An official survey of a population

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What’s an autobiography

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An account of a persons life written by themselvss

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What’s a biography

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An count of a persons life written by themselves

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What’s a handling box

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A box containing replicas of artefacts so that anyone can examine them without damaging the original

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What’s accuracy

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Judging how correct the information you are using is

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What’s bias

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What an account is not balanced but unfairly favours one side

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What’s exaggeration

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When something is represented as worse or better than it actually was

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What’s propagande

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Information that has been designed to influence the attitudes and behaviours of the general public

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What’s a tactile source

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A source that can be touched, a physical object

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What’s chronology

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Putting events into the sequence in which they happened

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What’s reinterpretation

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To see something in a new or different light