History Skills - Overview

What is chronology

• A collection of historical writings

• Events before 56 AD

• The correct order of events over time

• Digging up ancient objects

What is the best definition of a historical source?

• Documents that are extremely old

• Things that have been written down

• Ediburgh Castle

• Something providing useful evidence about the past

Another word for a primary source is ...what?

• Contemporary

• Contemplative

• Contiguous

• Contraty

Objects as evidence are known as what?

• Artefacts

• Factoids

• Factotums

• Aristofacts

What term means a source produced after an event?

• Consequential

• Fake

• Secondary

• Film

A historian may be said to do what with evidence?

• Ignore it

• Interpret it

• Internalise it

• Interrogate it

What is a hypothesis

• A source that has been damaged

• A possible explanation

• A historical error

• A historical consumption

Historicans are use what to show events in order?

• Calendar line

• Lifeline

• Timeline

• Chronoline

Which of these is not a primary source?

• Anne Frank's diary

• Bones in a burial chamber

• A photo of the World War One trenches

• Last week's newpaper article about the slave trade

• Roman 3, Viking 5, Tudor 2, Victorian 1, post-WWII 4

• Roman 3, Viking 5, Tudor 1, Victorian 2, post-WWII 4

• Roman 1, Viking 5, Tudor 2, Victorian 3, post-WWII 4

• Roman 1, Viking 5, Tudor 2, Victorian 3, post-WWII 4