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HISTORY SKILLS

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the 2 types of evidence called?

a)

Primary and Secondary Sources

b)

Primary and Secondary Skills

c)

Primary and Secondary Artefacts

d)

Primary and Secondary Evidence

2.

What used to be BC (the years before Christ was born) is now referred to as...

a)

CE

b)

BCE

c)

AD

d)

CB

3.

What used to be AD (anno domini - the years after the death of Christ) is now referred to as...

a)

DA

b)

BCE

c)

CE

d)

BE

4.

2 of the ANCIENT eras in time were....

a)

Ancient America and Ancient Greece

b)

Andcient Rome and Ancient England

c)

Ancient Egypt and Ancient Africa

d)

Ancient China and Ancient Egypt

5.

Layers of soil, in which evidence is buried from the various eras in history are called...

a)

strata

b)

stratum

c)

stratus

d)

strati

6.

The type of historian that digs for evidence of historical value is called an...

a)

ancientiologist

b)

historian

c)

astronomer

d)

archaeologist

7.

To put dates or events into CHRONOLOGICAL order is to put them in order from...

a)

most recent to furtherest

b)

modern times to ancient times

c)

furtherest back in history to most recent

d)

today to the future

8.

Another word for a well-known PERIOD IN TIME over history is...

a)

era

b)

century

c)

war

d)

decade

9.

A MILLENIUM is...

a)

a 1,000 years duration

b)

a 1,000,000 years duration

c)

a 100 years duration

d)

a 10 year duration

10.

An example of a PRIMARY SOURCE of evidence is a...

a)

an imaginative diary entry

b)

a diary written to explain the event years later

c)

a diary you write about an event in history you have studied

d)

diary written at the time of the event

11.

An example of a SECONDARY SOURCE of evidence is...

a)

a painting created in 1914 to represent a famous battle in WW1

b)

a painting created by an Indigenous Australian artist before the Europeans came to Australia

c)

a replica of the famous "Mona Lisa" painting by Leonardo da Vinci

d)

an original painting by Dutch artist Monet

12.

What helps to support how valid 'historical evidence' is?

a)

where it was found

b)

who found it

c)

if it is a 'primary' or 'second' source

d)

scientific testing