What is History?

What is an artefact?

• An object made or altered by people
• any object from the past
• object on display in musuem
• a truth about the past

What does the term BCE mean?

• Before Christ Era
• Before Common Era
• Before Christian Era
• Before Christ's Ececution

Which century does the year 1150CE fall in?

• 12
• 11
• 50
• 51

What is a secondary source?

• A source created during the period the historian is investigating
• source from a secondary school textbook
• a reconstruction of the past by people living at a later time
• a visual source

Secondary Sources are always more reliable than primary sources

• True
• False

An eye witness to an event will always be the most reliable source

• False
• True

When sources disagree about a particular issue it is called?

• Supporting evidence
• Contradictory evidence
• Useless evidence
• Unbiased evidence

What is the name of a person who digs up evidence?

• Palaeontologist
• Forensic Biologist
• Archaeologist
• Dendrochronologist

What is the period before writing was invented called?

• Prehistory
• Ancient History
• Modern History
• Before History

What is a hypothesis?

• A scientific explanation of events
• A factual account
• A biased account
• A possible theory to explain what happened