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Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What are the 2 types of evidence called?
Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary and Secondary Skills
Primary and Secondary Artefacts
Primary and Secondary Evidence
What used to be BC (the years before Christ was born) is now referred to as...
CE
BCE
AD
CB
What used to be AD (anno domini - the years after the death of Christ) is now referred to as...
DA
BCE
CE
BE
2 of the ANCIENT eras in time were....
Ancient America and Ancient Greece
Andcient Rome and Ancient England
Ancient Egypt and Ancient Africa
Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
Layers of soil, in which evidence is buried from the various eras in history are called...
strata
stratum
stratus
strati
The type of historian that digs for evidence of historical value is called an...
ancientiologist
historian
astronomer
archaeologist
To put dates or events into CHRONOLOGICAL order is to put them in order from...
most recent to furtherest
modern times to ancient times
furtherest back in history to most recent
today to the future
Another word for a well-known PERIOD IN TIME over history is...
era
century
war
decade
A MILLENIUM is...
a 1,000 years duration
a 1,000,000 years duration
a 100 years duration
a 10 year duration
An example of a PRIMARY SOURCE of evidence is a...
an imaginative diary entry
a diary written to explain the event years later
a diary you write about an event in history you have studied
diary written at the time of the event
An example of a SECONDARY SOURCE of evidence is...
a painting created in 1914 to represent a famous battle in WW1
a painting created by an Indigenous Australian artist before the Europeans came to Australia
a replica of the famous "Mona Lisa" painting by Leonardo da Vinci
an original painting by Dutch artist Monet
What helps to support how valid 'historical evidence' is?
where it was found
who found it
if it is a 'primary' or 'second' source
scientific testing
