Historian's Tools Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
physical map | shows natural features - land, water, vegetation, and elevation |
political map | shows man-made boundaries - country, state, cities with in a country |
thematic map | uses symbols & colors to represent data & how that data is distributed on the Earth. |
historical map | shows what a place was like at a specific period in time |
historians | people who study events in the past |
timeline | a dated line that is labeled with a series of events in the order they occured |
chronology | events listed in the order they happened |
period | a block of time when a specific event occurred or a series of things happened during that time |
prehistory | the time before humans invented writing |
BCE | Before Common Era (BC-Before Christ) prehistory & history to start of year 1 CE |
CE | Common Era (AD-Birth of Christ) History at start of year 1 to today |
primary source | 1st hand account that comes directly from a person who experienced or witnessed an event |
secondary source | 2nd hand account that comes from a person who DID NOT experience or witness the event |
artifact | an object made by a human |
bias | an unfair preference or dislike of something |
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