Unit One

What is a historian?

• A history book

• A history documentary

• a history report

• A person who studies history

Timelines show information in chronological order.

• true

• false

How many years are in a decade?

• 100

• 20

• 10

• 1,000

What is primary source?

• a research paper about someone

• a person who reports

• a first hand experience account of an event

• a famous person

Which is an example of a primary source?

• Essay on a famous person

• Letter

• science textbook

• Review of a play

What is a secondary source

• diary

• letter

• someone who saw it first hand

• created after the event using a broad view of what happened

What is an example of a secondary source?

• diary

• a textbook

• letter

• treaty

How many years is a century?

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 10,000

How long is a millenium?

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 10,000

Archaeology means

• objects made by people

• study fossils to learn what the world was like long ago

• the study of the past by looking at what people left behind

• the study of human culture and how it develops over time