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History Quiz 1
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Question | Answer |
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How did Historians know what happened in the past? | They looked for writings about earlier times, and they looked for clues that can be dug out of the Earth. |
What shows how History began? | A written record |
What is the only completely reliable source that reveals how history began? | The Bible |
In Genesis 1:1, who recorded "In the beginning God created." | Moses |
The Bible is the _________, in addition to being a written record. | Word of God |
What did Moses write in the Bible? | Exactly what God told him to write. |
Moses was able to accurately record God's word because it was given by ___. | Inspiration |
What is the period when humans evolved called? | Prehistory |
There is no prehistory in the evolutionary sense because of what? | The Bible contains the record of the creation of the world. |
In Genesis, Moses records the ______ testimony of the devine eyewitness, ________. | Eyewitness/God |
How long ago were people directly created by God? | 6,000 to 7,000 years ago |
What do people receive from a good story based on facts? | Enjoyment |
People can use true stories of the past to know what? | How to live in the present and future |
What does history teach people about? | Themselves |
The study of history provides people an opportunity to do what? | Praise God |
What are manmade objects from the past? | Artifacts |
What is the passing of information from generation to generation? | Tradition |
What do historians use as primary sources? | written records |
What are some secondary sources Historians use? | Encyclopedia, biography, or review of art or literature |
A historian needs to evaluate the _____ of artifacts, traditions, and written records. | Accuracy |
Some historical accounts present only one what? | side of the story |
Historians interpret evidence results from where? | his side |
A Christian Historian will view evidence from a worldview based on what? | the Bible |
A historian needs to understand what is _____ and what is ___. | important/not |
What does a Christian historian remember? | God knows and controls all things, including history. |
Who was the Hebrew whom God used to lead the Israelites out of slavery and wrote the first five books of the Bible? | Moses |
What could humans do from the very beginning? | Speak, write, and agriculture |
Name three ways people study history? | Artifacts, traditions, and written records |
What are some primary sources in history? | firsthand letters, diaries, legal documents, newspapers and art, oral histories or journals, clay tablets |
How a person sees and interprets the universe and everything in it is called what? | worldview |