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2017 1 History
essential vocab term 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| historian | someone trained to investigate and write about the past |
| era | a long and distinct period of history; a system of chronology dating from a particular event |
| artefact | object made by humans |
| chronology | the order in which events happened, from the earliest to the most recent |
| BC | indicates the time before Christ’s birth in the system of counting years used throughout the world, originating in Christian countries; stands for ‘before Christ’ |
| BCE | stands for ‘before the common era’; has the same meaning as BC, but uses neutral rather than religious terms |
| AD | indicates the time since Christ’s birth in the system of counting years used throughout the world, originating in Christian countries; stands for the Latin Anno Domini, meaning ‘in the year of our Lord’ |
| CE | stands for ‘common era’; has the same meaning as AD, but uses neutral rather than religious terms |
| archaeologist | someone who investigates the past by digging up objects left by earlier societies and civilisations |
| prehistoric | relating to or denoting the period before written records |
| heritage | all things that we value from the past, including events, traditions, influences, places and experiences |
| past | gone by in time and no longer existing |
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