Think Like a Historian

information from someone who did not witness an event

• secondary source

• primary source

the study of past events

• history

• historian

a sequence of events in the order that they happened

• timeline

• chronological order

information from someone who witnessed an event

• primary source

• secondary source

a time period of 100 years

• century

• timeline

the way someone looks at an issue, an event, or a person

• effect

• point of view

things that can help a reader make effective use of a textbook

• text features

• text structures

a person who studies the events of the past

• history

• historian

an event that is the result of something else happening

• cause

• effect

a diagram listing important events within a particular historical period

• timeline

• chronological order