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Flashcards by Julie Mannering, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What is history? | History is the study of the past and human activity in the past. |
| What is a historian? | Somone who studies history. |
| What is the historic period? | It is a time when people used writing. |
| What is prehistoric period? | it is when writing was not used. |
| How can we find out stuff from the the prehistoric period if writing was not used. | Archaeology. |
| What evidence does historians use? | They use sources. |
| What is a source? | A piece of evidence from the past. |
| Name 3 types of sources. | a written document, a photograph, or an object from the past. |
| What are the 2 types of sources? | Primary sources and secondary sources. |
| What is a primary source? | A source that comes directly from the time of the event being studied. |
| What is a secondary source? | A source that come from a later date of the event being studied. |
| Give some examples of a primary source. | Interviews, Diaries, Letters emails,speeches, Goverment records, Autobiographies, Photgraphs,painting,posters,newspapers,magazines, artefacts. |
| Give some examples of a secondary source? | Biographies,movies,TV or radio documentaries,the internet,history books. |
| Whow do historians examine sources? | They have to examine why a event happened, what happened, And the efects of what happened. they can visit a place where written sources are stored such as archives. they could interview participants or witnesses or they could research the topic on line. |
| What are archives? | they are collections of documents and records that contain historical information. |
| What are or is the National Archives of Ireland? | It is a place that contains many important documents about irish history. |
| Why were so many records lost in 1922 from the National Archives of Ireland? | Because they were destroyed during the attack of the Four Courts in Dublin. |
| Why do historians evaluate a source? | Because all soueces are some use to historians but may also have limitations or weaknesses so historians have to evaluate the souce to check how reliable it is. |
| How do historians evaluate a source? | They consider factors such as Bias, View point. Accuracy, Exaggeration and propaganda. |
| What is Bias? | It is when a source is one sided it may favour one sides version of events over anothers. |
| Give an example of when somone might act bias? | An author or interviewer might deliberatley leaves out facts or details that would suppoet their view of the event. |
| What is a Viewpoint? | it is when a source contains the personal opinions of the author. |
| What is accuracy? | It is when a somthing is corect some sources might have falce information so historians have to make sure the source is accurate. |
| What is exaggeration? | Exaggeration is when the person being intrerviewed is overstating thir role in an event. |
| What is propaganda? | it is when the source makes one side look good and another bad. |
| What is a century? | It last 100 years so if, you said that event happened 3 centurys ago that means the event happened 300 years ago. |
| What is a millennium? | It is 1,000 years, If you said that happened 3 millenniums ago that means it happened 3,000 years ago. |
| What does BCE mean? | Before the common era. |
| What does CE mean? | Common era. |
| What does AD mean ? | Anno Domini-the year of our Lord. |
| What is a timeline? | It shows us what order in which events happened. |
| What era is the Mesolithic (stone age) people? | 8000-3500 BC they were the first people to settle in Ireland after the Ice Age. |
| What year was the Neolithic (new stone age people) and when did it end ? | 4000-2000 BC |
| What type of prople lived in the Neolithic (new stone age). | Te First farmers. |
| What year did the bronze age start and when did it end? | 2000-500BC |
| In the bronze age the people were the first to...... | First people to use metal tools and weapons. |
| When did the iron age start and when did it finish? | 500BC-AD500 |
| The people from the iron age were the first to.... | First people to use iron. |
| Explain the difference between prehistory and history. | Prehistory is history before prople could write and history is when people could write. |
| identify four things that interest historians besides famous people and battles. | Answering questions about the lives or ordinary peole, what their homes were like, what food did they eat ,what jobs did they do, what did they wear and what games did they play. |
| List 3 types of a primary source and a secondary source. | IPrimary sources, interviews, diaries,letters. Secondary sorces, Biographys, movies,The internet. |
| List 4 places where historians go to find written sources, | Lbrary,museum,archive and internet. |
| Identify the 5 Ws and explain why they are important when studying a source. | Who,What,When,Where,Why. These are important because for historians to use because if they dont ask themselves this they wont get all the information out of the source the they could of got. |
| what is cross checking? | When you get information from all different sources about the same event. |
| What is archaeology? | It is the study of what has been lest behind by people from the past. |
| What are archaelogists? | They are people who work closely with historians to build up a better picture of what life was like for people long ago. |
| What are artefacts? | The man-made objects archaeologists find. |
| Why do objests end up in the ground? | Some get lost, Valuable objests were burried for safekeeping, Food items were burried for preservations, bodies were burried, old buildings are knocked down, abandoned builings are covered by soil over time. |
| What are grave goods? | They are objects buried with bodies and it was believed the person would need those objects in the afterlife. |
| What are bog bodies? | Bodies found in bogs. |
| Why do bog bodies keep and not decay? | They keep because the bog is water logged. |
| What is research archeology? | There is evidence that objects might be found at the site. There might be an old document showing that a building once existed at the location. |
| What is research archaeology? | Archaeologists often dig at a site before construction work on roads or buildings starts, especially id there is strong evidence that there might be remains of human activity there. |
| What is salvage archaeology? | Many finds are discovered by accident by a member of the public. Archaeologists are then called to investigate.. |
| What is a geophysical survey. | It involves using a machine like an X-ray to look at the soil underneath the the surface. It shows how much of the earth has ben disturbed by human activity. |
| What are test trenches? | Archaeologists dig test trenches to get an idea of the amount of remains they can expect to find. |
| What are aerial photographs? | To determine the size of the site. These often features may be missed on the ground. |
| What is a hoard? | It is when large numbers of gold and sliver are found together. They were buried for safekeeping but the owner the never came back for them. |
| What do you do at the beginning or the dig. | You remove the topsoil with a digger, spades and pixaxes are often used aswell. |
| What is a trowel? | It is a tool to help scrape away the earth. |
| Even if no objects are found the soil can tell archaeologist a lot about the past why? | Wooden poles that used for building houses will have decayed but they will have left dark round patches called post-holes. And a fireplace leaves a square-shaped dark patch in the soil.Evidence that the site might have been destroyed by fire will be seen by a dark layer of soil between two lighter ones. |
| What methods do archaeologists use to date objects? | They use coins they find because they have dates on them or the ruler at the time, stratigraphy Design of a object, radiocarbon dating ,dendronchronolgy. |
| What is stratigraphy | It is how archaeologists found out how old something is by how far down in the ground it is buried. |
| What is radiocarbon dating? | It is when you check how much carbon 14 is in a body because all living have carbon 14 and when you die it begins to decline. |
| What is drendrochronology? | It is when archaeologists estimate how old a tree or wooden objects are by the tree rings. |
| What can we find out from a skeleton? | We can find out if it is a boy or a girl from the pelvic bone, How tall the person is from their femur bone, The teeth can help tell the persons age at death, A well preserved skull can help archaeologists to reconstruct the face telling us what the person looked like and damage to the bone could prove that the person died from a wound and the bones can be examined scientifically and this can tell us about the persons diet. |
| Who is Otzi? | He is a body hikers found in the Alps. |
| Why was Otzis body so well preserved? | Because it was covered in ice. |
| How old was Otzis body? | 5,300 years old. |
| How did Otzi die and how did they find out how he died? | He gotshot by a arrow in the shoulder and they found this out by a X-ray. |
| What was learned from Otzis clothing and equipment? | They found out that he was probally important to his village he was from. |
| Wat id DNA analysis? | DNA is present in a skeleton alive and dead it is passed on through generations to generation. DNA samples taken frome bones can be matched with the DNA of living relatives to identify a body. |
| Who is Richard the III? | He was a king. |
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