What's History?

What's History?

by Soumaya Trimech

Poll

How much do you know about today's lesson?

What's History?

​History is the study of the people and events of the past.

Multiple Choice

Why do we need to study History?

• Learning about the past helps us to understand the present.

• Helps us decide about the future

• It is interesting and fun  

• All of the above

Historians study the reasons things happen (causes) and the results of those events (effects).

How can causes and effects of historical events help people understand what is going on now and help us to make decisions about the future?

​Learning about the past helps us understand the present.

It helps us decide what to do in the future. Knowing what went wrong in the past can help us make better decisions today when we face similar choices.

​Questions historians ask?

​What happened?

​Why did it happen?

​How did things change?

​How has it influenced today?

​What would have happened if.....?

Historians measure and label time to help them study the past.

1. A decade : 10 years

2. A century: 100 years

3. A millennium: 1000 years

4. An era: a long and distinct period of history.

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Multiple Choice

A decade is 

• 100 years

• 10 years

• 1000 years

• 20 years

Multiple Choice

2 centuries ago means

• 20 years ago

• 100 years ago

• 200 years ago

• 2 years ago

Julian Calendar / Gregorian Calendar

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A calendar is a system for arranging days in order; different cultures have developed about 40 different calendars.

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Multiple Choice

Calendar still used till today 

• Gregorian Calendar 

• Julian Calendar 

​A time line

​A time line shows the order of events within a period of time and the amount of time between the events.

Multiple Choice

Using the B.C years we count

• backwards

• forwards

Multiple Select

Choose the correct answer :

There are 2 correct answers

• Year A.D 1000

• Year 500 B.C

• Year 600 A.D

• Year B.C 3000

Multiple Choice

In 1974, a team led by paleontologist Donald Johanson made an exciting discovery. They discovered a partial skeleton of a human ancestor who lived more than 3.2 million years ago. Lucy, as she was called, was found in .....

• Tokyo

  Japan

• Ethiopia 

  Africa

• Helsinki

  Finland

• Stokholm

  Sweden

Multiple Select

An artifact is an object made by people.

Which of the followings are artiats

Multiple Choice

The ones study fossils to learn what the world was like long ago. Fossils are the remains of plant and animal life that have been preserved from an earlier time.

• Archaeologists

• Paleontologists

• Anthropologists

Multiple Choice

A person who studies the past by looking at what people left behind.

• Paleontologist

• Archaeologists

• Anthropologist

Multiple Choice

A historian who studies human culture and how it develops over time. 

• Paleontologists

• Anthropologist

• Paleontologists

Poll

Now by the end of the lesson, how are you doing