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Chapter 1
Study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a decade | 10 years |
| What is a century | 100 years |
| What is a millennium | 1000 years |
| How can you be sure that the information you found on the internet while researching is indeed from a reliable source? | Use web addresses that end in .gov, .edu, and .org you should also make sure that they have an author |
| 4 steps you would take to complete history research project | 1. select a topic 2. Create notecards 3. Gather resources - books, research on the internet etc. 4. Look for signs of bias |
| What do Archeologists do? | Look for what people left behind to study the past |
| What do Anthropologists do? | They study culture or human society |
| Does Gregorian calendar begins counting years with the founding of Rome? | False it does not |
| Pharaoh | A secondary source |
| Reliable source | is written from a trustworthy point of view |
| Conclusion | a decision reached after examination of evidence |
| letters, diaries and government records are | NOT EXAMPLES of secondary sources |
| the study of history can help us make decisions about the future because | historical circumstances of conflict and cooperation are examples we can learn from |
| to learn the answers to historical questions historians | look for evidence |
| Scholarly | concerned with academic learning I research |
| Primary source | a historian needs to evaluate a primary source to decide if it has a trustworthy point of view. It is a firsthand account or piece of evidence to an even in history, for example a cave painting. |