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Junior Cert History

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Definition
History   Finding out about the past  
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Historian   Someone who studies history  
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Source   Where a historian finds their information  
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Primary Source   A source from the time  
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Secondary Source   A source from after the time  
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Bias   To favour something  
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Propaganda   To convince people of your ideas  
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Chronology   In date order  
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Objective   To look at both sides of a story  
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Museum   A place where artifacts are kept  
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Archive   A museum for written documents  
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Census   A count of the population  
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Archaeology   Digging up the past  
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Pre-History   Before history was written down  
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Artefacts   Man-made objects  
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Stratigraphy   The layers in the soil  
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Crop marks   Marks on the soil seen in aerial photos  
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Grid of squares   A plan of the site  
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Excavation   A dig  
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Tools   Sieve, Shovel,Brush, Trowel, Camera, Plastic bag, Labels  
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Carbon-14   Measured to see how old a bone or plant is  
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Dendrochronology   Tree-ring dating  
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B.C.   Before Christ  
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