6th grade history Chapter 1 "What is History?"

Digging up mummies in Egypt is an example of...

• Discovery

• Archeology

• Species

• Paleontology

How many years in a century

• 1000

• 10

• a long period of time

• 100

Historians divide the past into larger blocks of time known as...

• fossils

• decades

• eras

• periods

An example of an artifact is..

• an ax from caveman times

• an ancient scroll

• both a and b

• none of the above

An unreasoned, emotional judgement about people and events

• point of view

• evidence

• secondary sources

• bias

A document or written work created after an event

• secondary source

• evidence

• point of view

• primary source

A personal attitude about people or life

• evidence

• bias

• point of view

• primary source

How many years in a millennium

• 100

• 1000

• 10

• many many years

Something that shows proof that something is true

• evidence

• point of view

• bias

• primary source

How many years in a decade

• 100

• 1000

• 50

• 10