Unit 1 Vocabulary: Thinking Like A Historian

a human made object

• era

• primary source

• bias

• chronology

a way of looking at something, may be shaped by many things, such as the person's age, religion, job, or political views

• point of view

• bias

• evidence

• artifact

the sequence of events in time

• chronology

• secondary source

• primary source

• era

information that can be used to prove a statement or support a conclusion

• evidence

• bias

• point of view

• primary source

a document or other record of past events created by people who were present at that time

• primary source

• secondary source

• bias

• evidence

anything that might change a person's observations. It can make a source less than trustworthy

• bias

• evidence

• artifact

• primary source

information written after the time period by an expert or historian

• secondary source

• primary source

• artifact

• evidence

a long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic

• era

• chronology

• bias

• point of view