HISTORY SKILLS

What are the 2 types of evidence called?

• Primary and Secondary Sources

• Primary and Secondary Skills

• Primary and Secondary Artefacts

• Primary and Secondary Evidence

What used to be BC (the years before Christ was born) is now referred to as...

• CE

• BCE

• AD

• CB

What used to be AD (anno domini - the years after the death of Christ) is now referred to as...

• DA

• BCE

• CE

• BE

2 of the ANCIENT eras in time were....

• Ancient America and Ancient Greece

• Andcient Rome and Ancient England

• Ancient Egypt and Ancient Africa

• Ancient China and Ancient Egypt

Layers of soil, in which evidence is buried from the various eras in history are called...

• strata

• stratum

• stratus

• strati

The type of historian that digs for evidence of historical value is called an...

• ancientiologist

• historian

• astronomer

• archaeologist

To put dates or events into CHRONOLOGICAL order is to put them in order from...

• most recent to furtherest

• modern times to ancient times

• furtherest back in history to most recent

• today to the future

Another word for a well-known PERIOD IN TIME over history is...

• era

• century

• war

• decade

A MILLENIUM is...

• a 1,000 years duration

• a 1,000,000 years duration

• a 100 years duration

• a 10 year duration

An example of a PRIMARY SOURCE of evidence is a...

• an imaginative diary entry

• a diary written to explain the event years later

• a diary you write about an event in history you have studied

• diary written at the time of the event