Topic 0, Week 1- The Historian's Toolkit

Studying history can help us better understand

• the origins of our government

• where and when some of the inventions that we still use today began

• the bonds that all humans share, regardless of where or when they lived/live

• why civilizations started in certain places

The way things stay the same is called

• continuity

• background

• prehistory

• archaeology

The study of the past by looking at what people left behind is called

• archaeology

• prehistory

• artifacts

• context

Objects made by people which help us to understand how they lived are called

• artifacts

• fossils

• paleontology

• anthropology

The study of fossils to learn about what the world was like long ago is referred to as

• paleontology

• anthropology

• historian

• artifacts

The study of human cultures and how they develop over time is called

• anthropology

• paleontology

• artifact

• context

The remains of plants and animals that have been preserved from an earlier time are called

• fossils

• artifacts

• paleontology

• archaeology

A period of ten (10) years is a

• decade

• century

• artifact

• era

A period of 100 years is a

• century

• decade

• era

• timeline