History Vocabulary

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What is history?

Back

What has happened in the past.

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What is a Historian?

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A person who studies what happened in the past.

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What is a Primary Source?

Back

A recording of an event by the people who saw or were there when it happened.

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What is a secondary source?

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Something written by a person who was not at the event.

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What is a timeline?

Back

A graphic that shows the order that events took place.

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What is a decade?

Back

A ten year period of time.

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What is the cause mean?

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The reason why something happened.

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What is the effect?

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The result of what happened.

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What are artifacts?

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Something left behind from the past that we can study.

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What is Britain?

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A Country on the continent of Europe.