WH Topic 1-intro test - Historian

A group of 100 years is known as a(n)

• century

• decade

• era

• millennium

The study of human culture and how it develops over time is called

• archaeology

• anthropology

• prehistory

• paleontology

A paleontologist looks for clues to the past by studying

• ancient cultures

• ancient literature

• fossils

• ancient ruins

The letters A.D. stand for the words anno domini and means "in the year of the lord"

• true

• false

What is an example of an artifact?

• a book of ancient history

• a map of an archaeological dig

• a description of an extinct species

• a weapon from a past culture

Who studies the past by looking at what people left behind?

• archaeologist

• anthropologist

• paleontologist

A judgement made after examining clues

• bias

• conclusion

• evidence

• secondary source

Cave painting from prehistoric eras would be considered

• primary sources

• secondary sources

An example of a secondary source would be

• the biography of a famous leader

• a hand-drawn map by an explorer

• the election records from a presidential race in 1860

• a letter written from the battlefield to a soldier's wife

Primary sources

• are usually unreliable since the writers were bias

• were created by the people who saw or experienced the event

• can only be found in the reference sections of large libraries.