6th Grade Ms. Brown Basic History Skills

The two most common names for a large block of time

• Decade and Century

• Period and Era

• Century and Millenium

• Era and Year

Objects found from ancient civilizations that were created and used by an ancient community like weapons, tools, coins, jewelry, and pots

• Century

• Evidence

• Artifacts

• Archeologist

Things like diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and letters

• Examples of things that historians ignore because they aren't enough facts

• Examples of Secondary Sources

• Examples of Primary Sources

Information that was created after the event by people who were not involved.

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Fake News

Another way of saying 100 years

• Decade

• Century

• Era

Traces of plants or animals preserved in rocks

• Hierarchy

• Artifacts

• Fossils

Historians who study how people behave and act together

• Anthropologists

• Archeologists

• Chronologist

The order of time and dates in which events happened

• Period

• Century

• Chronology

A system that ranks or organizes members of a group based on "importance", an example of a social structure

• Hierarchy

• Monarchy

• Timeline

Historians who search for evidence or proof in the ground where settlements might have been

• Anthropologists

• Chronologists

• Archeologists