Year 7 History Vocabulary

Ancient History

• Refers to the time from when people began to create written records up to c.500 CE.

• The period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools and the invention of writing systems.

• All things that we value from the past, including events, traditions, influences, places and experiences.

• Useful information found within a source that proves or disproves something.

Prehistory

• The order in which events happen, from the earliest to the most recent.

• The period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools and the invention of writing systems.

• An idea, practice, event, object or person placed outside its proper time period.

• A reconstruction/source of the past by people living at a later time.

Archaeologist

• A theory that tries to explain some aspect of the past and which can be tested against the evidence found in historical sources.

• Someone trained to investigate and write about the past.

• A source created in the time being investigated.

• Someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by earlier societies and civilisations.

Historian

• Distinct layers of material beneath the ground, built up over time, that provide information for archaeologists and geologists.

• Useful information found within a source that proves or disproves something.

• Someone trained to investigate and write about the past.

• A representation of a period of time, on which important events are marked in order of when they occurred.

Stratigraphy

• Both written and non-written items that can provide information about the past.

• A theory that tries to explain some aspect of the past and which can be tested against the evidence found in historical sources.

• All things that we value from the past, including events, traditions, influences, places and experiences.

• Distinct layers of material beneath the ground, built up over time, that provide information for archaeologists and geologists.

Chronological

• Distinct layers of material beneath the ground, built up over time, that provide information for archaeologists and geologists.

• The order in which events happen, from the earliest to the most recent.

• A representation of a period of time, on which important events are marked in order of when they occurred.

• Anno Domini, ‘in the year of our lord’

Sources

• Both written and non-written items that can provide information about the past.

• A source created in the time being investigated.

• A reconstruction/source of the past by people living at a later time.

• A representation of a period of time, on which important events are marked in order of when they occurred.

Evidence

• The period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools and the invention of writing systems.

• Useful information found within a source that proves or disproves something.

• A theory that tries to explain some aspect of the past and which can be tested against the evidence found in historical sources.

• Before Christ

Hypothesis

• A theory that tries to explain some aspect of the past and which can be tested against the evidence found in historical sources.

• The quality, in a source, of being able to help explain the past.

• To protect something from being destroyed by keeping it in its original state or restoring it to its original state.

• Common era

Usefulness

• The quality, in a source, of being able to help explain the past.

• An idea, practice, event, object or person placed outside its proper time period.

• Someone trained to investigate and write about the past.

• Refers to the time from when people began to create written records up to c.500 CE.