Revision of Historians and Early Christian Ireland

Prehistory refers to:

• The study of the past

• The period before writing was used

• The study of remains left by people in the past

• History before we were born

What is a source?

• A human-made object that tells us about the past

• An account of someones life

• To see something in a new or different light

• Something that gives us information or evidence about a person, place or thing in the past.

Historical Consciousness is

• being able to place ourselves in past human experience, linking the past, the present and the future.

• someone who is an expert in their field of history

• when you do not fall unconscious studying history

• when more than one source is used to check if something is correct

An artefact is

• an account of someone's life

• any human made object: such as pottery, a tool etc.

• when an object is preserved

• a tactile source, or physical object.

Accuracy is

• judging how correct the information you are using is

• when something is made out to be better than it is

• putting events into the sequence in which they happened

What is bias?

• When something is represented as better than it is

• When an account is not balanced, but unfairly favours one side

• To see something in a new light

• To refer to something you have gathered or read

Plagiarism is

• When you write an essay based around history

• Passing off someone else's work or ideas as your own, without citing the real source

• Giving full credit to the writer of an article

• An official survey of a population

Propaganda is

• Information/image designed to influence the attitudes of the public.

• The study of the remains left by people in the past

• A place that collects and displays objects for education

• Another word for studying the past

An area where archaeologist dig things up from the past is called

• site 
• wash
• hole
• laboratory

Archaeology is

• The study of remains left by people in the past

• The ruins of an old building

• Finding something on a dig

• Getting planning permission to build a new road