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History Skills - Overview

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is chronology

a)

A collection of historical writings

b)

Events before 56 AD

c)

The correct order of events over time

d)

Digging up ancient objects

2.

What is the best definition of a historical source?

a)

Documents that are extremely old

b)

Things that have been written down

c)

Ediburgh Castle

d)

Something providing useful evidence about the past

3.

Another word for a primary source is ...what?

a)

Contemporary

b)

Contemplative

c)

Contiguous

d)

Contraty

4.

Objects as evidence are known as what?

a)

Artefacts

b)

Factoids

c)

Factotums

d)

Aristofacts

5.

What term means a source produced after an event?

a)

Consequential

b)

Fake

c)

Secondary

d)

Film

6.

A historian may be said to do what with evidence?

a)

Ignore it

b)

Interpret it

c)

Internalise it

d)

Interrogate it

7.

What is a hypothesis

a)

A source that has been damaged

b)

A possible explanation

c)

A historical error

d)

A historical consumption

8.

Historicans are use what to show events in order?

a)

Calendar line

b)

Lifeline

c)

Timeline

d)

Chronoline

9.

Which of these is not a primary source?

a)

Anne Frank's diary

b)

Bones in a burial chamber

c)

A photo of the World War One trenches

d)

Last week's newpaper article about the slave trade

10.
a)

Roman 3, Viking 5, Tudor 2, Victorian 1, post-WWII 4

b)

Roman 3, Viking 5, Tudor 1, Victorian 2, post-WWII 4

c)

Roman 1, Viking 5, Tudor 2, Victorian 3, post-WWII 4

d)

Roman 1, Viking 5, Tudor 2, Victorian 3, post-WWII 4

11.

  Time distance is: earlier date minus later date 

For example, The Trieu dynasty ruled in Vietnam from 207 BCE to 111BCE. For how long did the Trieu dynasty rule? Answer: 207 – 111 = 96 years  

Therefore   26400 BCE to 1300BCE=

a)

25100

b)

25300

c)

27700

d)

21850

12.

  St Paul’s Cathedral London was built between 1675 and 1710 to replace the Cathedral destroyed by the Great Fire of London. 

There has been a Cathedral dedicated to St Paul since 604 AD. So … The first Cathedral dedicated to St Paul at this site was built in the ____ Century. 

The building of this Cathedral began in the ____ Century and was completed in the ____Century.   

(a)  

13.

  Time distance = later date minus earlier date 

For example, Ho Chi Minh fought the French from 1945 to 1954. For how long did Ho Chi Minh fight the French? Answer: 1954 – 1945 = 9 years  

Therefore  1998 to 2011 =

a)

14

b)

3

c)

13

d)

27

14.

  Time distance = earlier date plus later date

 

For example, China occupied Vietnam from 111BCE to 939 CE. For how long did China occupy Vietnam? Answer: 111 + 939 = 1050 years.   

Therefore  50 BCE to 1250 =

a)

1300

b)

1250

c)

1200

d)

1150

15.

Which factor is the most important to decide ' Historical Significance'?

a)

Affects

b)

Memory

c)

Personal

d)

Location