Social Studies Chapter 1 Lesson 1.1

Historians divide the past into larger blocks of time know as _________.

• eras

• sections

• decades

• integral

A group of ten years is called a ___________.

• century

• decade

• week

• millennium

Ten centuries grouped together is called a ____________.

• millennium

• decade

• century

• year

Different cultures have developed around _________ different calendars.

• 10

• 20

• 30

• 40

True or False. The Julian Calendar was named after Julius Caesar.

• True

• False

True or False. The Gregorian Calendar was named after Pope Gregory.

• True

• False

In the Gregorian calendar the years before the birth of Jesus are know as B.C. which means ____________.

• before Christ

• Common Era

• After Death

____________ is the study of the past by looking at what people left behind.

• archeology

• paleontology

• anthropology

___________________ study fossils learn what the world was like long ago.

• archaeologist

• paleontologists

• anthropologists

______________ is the study of human culture and how it develops over time.

• Archaeology

• Paleontology

• Anthropology