Thinking like a Historian Review

A document or record of past events created by people who were present at that time is called ____________.

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

A ________________ is written after the time period by an expert or historian and can include books, magazines, and short articles.

• primary Source

• secondary Source

• bias

• artifact

A long period of time with similar characteristics

• era

• decade

• century

An unreasoned emotional judgement or feeling

• bias

• mean

• wrong

A century is

• 1 year

• 10 years

• 100 years

• 1,000 years

Which of the following is NOT correct?

• AD = CE

• BC = BCE

• BC = CE

Original records produced by the people who participated in and witnessed the past.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Documents, texts, images, and objects about an event created by someone who was not present at the time of the event.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

What is Prehistory?

• The time period before humans farmed and raised animals
• The history of the earth before humans
• The period of time before there were written records
  The period of time before there were written records
• The period of time also known as "ancient" history

Most of the information we know about prehistory comes from where

• archaeology
• anthropology
• historians
• the History Channel