The Historian

Question 1

How do we know if something is a primary source?

Answer 1

If it is a source from the time of the event; a first hand account of what happened. E.g - diaries, speeches

Question 2

How do we know if something is a secondary source?

Answer 2

If it is a source from a later date, after the time of the event. E.g - documentaries, history books.

Question 3

What is history?

Answer 3

The study of the past

Question 4

Source

Answer 4

Something that gives us information or evidence about a person, place or a thing in the past.

Question 5

Prehistory is used to speak about..

Answer 5

The period of the before writing was used

Question 6

Archaeology

Answer 6

The study of the remains left by people in the past.

Question 7

Why do we study history?

Answer 7

To learn how people lived before us, how past events unfolded, how human experience has shaped our society and the world of today, to help recognise patterns of change, how to avoid the mistakes that were made, to be inspired by the people of the past and to develop an appreciation of the cultural achievements of previous generations.

Question 8

Historical consciousness

Answer 8

Being able to place ourselves in past human experience, linking the past, present and the future.

Question 9

Historian

Answer 9

Someone who is an expert in, or a student of history

Question 10

Archaeologist

Answer 10

Someone who investigates places and objects left by people in the past, including the time before written records were kept.

Question 11

Cross-checking

Answer 11

When more than one source is used to make sure the information is correct

Question 12

Archive

Answer 12

A place that catalogues and stores a collection of written and other sources

Question 13

Museum

Answer 13

A place that collects and displays objects for public education and appreciation

Question 14

Artefact

Answer 14

Any human made object E.g - pottery, a tool or a weapon, such as a spear.

Question 15

Autobiography

Answer 15

An account of a persons life written by the person themselves.

Question 16

Biography

Answer 16

An account of a persons life written by someone else.

Question 17

Census

Answer 17

An official survey of a population

Question 18

Handling box

Answer 18

Contains replicas (copies) of artefacts, so that anyone can examine them without damaging an original.

Question 19

Accuracy

Answer 19

Judging how accurate/correct the information you are using is.

Question 20

Bias

Answer 20

When an account is not balanced, but unfairly favours one side.

Question 21

Exaggeration

Answer 21

When something is represented as better or worse than it actually was.

Question 22

Propaganda

Answer 22

Information that has been designed to influence the attitudes of the general public, often appeals to the emotions (fear, anger, loyalty) and may even be made up.

Question 23

Types of sources

Answer 23

Written, visual, aural, oral, tactile.

Question 24

A tactile source

Answer 24

One that can be touched, a physical object. E.g - an artefact

Question 24

Chronology

Answer 24

Putting events into the sequence in which they happened

Question 25

Decade

Answer 25

Ten years

Question 26

Millennium

Answer 26

A thousand years

Question 27

Century

Answer 27

A hundred years

Question 28

BCE

Answer 28

Before the common era, before Christ.

Question 29

CE / AD

Answer 29

Common era, Anno Domini, any date since the birth of Christ

Question 30

Reinterpretation

Answer 30

To see something in a new or different light

Question 31

Cite

Answer 31

To refer to evidence you have gathered or read.

Question 32

Plagiarism

Answer 32

Passing off someone else’s work or ideas as your own, without citing the real source.