Chapter 1 What Does a Historian Do?

1.A decade is a period of time that lasts _______.

• 10 years

• 20 years

• 100 years

• 1,000 years

2.The calendar we use today is called the ______ calendar.

• Julian

• Gregorian

• Lunar

• Egyptian

3.The Gregorian calendar begins counting years with the founding of Rome.

• True

• False

4.A leap year is a year that has _________.

• one extra day

• one less day

• one extra week

• one less week

5.The letters A.D. stand for the words anno domini and mean "in the year of our Lord."

• True

• False

6.A multilevel time line is ________.

• a time line with multiple labels

• a time line with multiple dates

• two or more time lines stacked on top of each other

• a time line in which some years are omitted.

7.A paleontologist looks for clues to the past by studying __________.

• ancient cultures

• ancient literature

• fossils

• ancient ruins

An anthropologist is mostly concerned with studying fossils.

• True

• False

Which is an example of an artifact?

• a book about ancient history

• a map of an archaeological dig

• a description of an extinct species

• a weapon from a culture of long ago

An archaeologist studies the past by looking at what people left behind.

• True

• False