Ch 1 What Do Historians Do?

To learn the answers to the historical questions, historians look for _____________

• textbooks

• evidence

• secondary sources

Historians use the evidence they read in historical sources to ____________what happened in the past.

• Gregorian

• artifacts

• interpret

_______________ sources are firsthand pieces of evidence. They were written or created by the people who saw or experienced an event.

• primary

• secondary

• evidence

Primary sources include letters, diaries, or government records. Literature or ______________ from a particular time and place is also a primary source.

• prehistory

• textbooks

• artwork

Primary sources help historians learn what people were ______

• thinking while the events took place.

• doing after the event took place

Secondary sources are created after an event. They are created by people who were ___________________________

• unable to remember what happened

• part of the historical event

• not part of the historical event

Examples of secondary sources are biographies, encyclopedias, history books, and ______________

• interviews

• textbooks

• artwork

Each primary source was written with a particular ___________ or general attitude about people or life.

• point of view

• bias

• secondary

The _________ of primary sources use their points of view to decide what information is important and what to include in the document.

• readers

• authors

• historians

Sometimes a point of view is expressed as a ______ or an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events.

• bias

• artifacts

• paleontology