Social Studies 4 - Chapter 1 terms

the study of the past

• history

• artifacts

• evidence

• investigate

people who study and tell or write about the past

• interpret

• detectives

• historians

• primary sources

to explain the meaning of something

• Using the Past

• investigate

• interpret

• artifacts

to find out as much as possible about something

• investigate

• Cause and Effect

• historians

• interpret

information and facts that help you prove something really happened

• Change and Continuity

• evidence

• secondary sources

• document

something that lasts or continues over a long period of time

• Turning Points

• interpret

• continuity

• historian

to decide how good or valuable something is after thinking about it

• Through Their Eyes

• history

• evaluate

• document

objects made by people who lived in the past

• artifacts

• evidence

• secondary sources

• document

sources that did NOT come straight from the past and have less importance

• primary sources

• history

• artifacts

• secondary sources

the most important, original places, people, and things from which information comes

• secondary sources

• evidence

• primary sources

• historians