Unit 1: Introduction to History

What is the name of the form of history that has been used to impart knowledge from generations to generations.

• Pre-History

• Intellectual Histories

• Cultural Histories

• Oral Histories

What is the name of a form of history that seeks to understand the ideas, thoughts, arguments, beliefs, assumptions, attitudes and preoccupations that together make up the intellectual or reflective life of previous societies?

• Oral Histories

• Intellectual Histories

• The Histories

• Cultural Histories

What is a form of history that has been used to encompass aspects of societies such as government, class structure, literature, art, customs, and traditions?

• Cultural Histories

• Pre-History

• Oral Histories

• History

What profession interprets and produces knowledge about the past?

• Anthropologist

• Historian

• None of the above.

What is the importance of studying history?

• It allows people to learn from past mistakes.

• People can study and learn from the examples of historical men and women.

• Provides insight into different societies.

• All of the above.

What do historians use to study the past?

• Primary Sources

• Artifacts

• Various Tools

• All of the above.

Why are historians important?

• Historians encourage the learning of past events.

• Historians try to figure out what happened in the past.

• All of the above.

Documents or recordings that were created after an event by people who did not witness the event.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

• Excavation

• Cuneiform

What device is used as a way to label events?

• Timeline

• Relic

• Calendar

• None of the above.

What method is used to determine the age of an animate object?

• Relative Dating

• Cuneiform

• Excavation

• Radiocarbon Dating