Thinking Like A Historian

The story of people, human culture, politics, lifestyles & beliefs

• history

• chronology

• calendar

decade

• 10 years

• 50 years

• 100 years

A.D. means

• The year of the Lord

• The year the dinosaurs died

• Before Christ

A person who studies and writes about the past.

• Historian

• Geologist

• Nurse

Records made by people who saw or took place in an event.

• primary source

• secondary source

• oral history

Records written by someone was NOT there at the time the event took place

• primary source

• secondary source

• oral history

Passed down by word of mouth from one generation to the next

• oral history

• written history

• internet history

The order of dates in which events happen.

• chronology

• credibility

• bias

century

• 10 years

• 50 years

• 100 years

A period of time with similar characteristics

• era

• decade

• century