6TH SS CORE CONCEPTS 1.1-1.6 Vocab on study guide Flashcards
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Information about an event that does not come directly from a person who experienced that event?
Secondary Source
List of events arranged in the order in which they occurred?
Chronology
Time before humans invented writing?
Prehistory
Study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture?
Anthropology
Information that comes directly from a person who experienced an event?
Primary Source
Length of time singled out because of a specific event or development that happened during that time?
Period
Scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence?
Archaeology
Line marked off with a series of events and their dates?
Timeline
A person who studies the past?
Historian
Object made by a human being?
Artifact
Community’s cultural and historical background, passed down in spoken stories and songs?
Oral Tradition
Unfair preference for or dislike of?
Bias
Area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population or history?
Region
Exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude?
Absolute Location
Section of a map that shows how much distance on the map represents a given distance on the land?
Scale Bar
Diagram of a compass showing direction?
Compass Rose
Special-purpose map that provides information about a place at a certain time in history?
Historical Map
Section of a map that explains the map’s symbols and shading?
Key
Location of a place relative to another place?
Relative Location
How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another?
Movement
Section of a map that shows a larger area than the main map?
Locator Map
Mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location?
Place
How people affect their environment and how their environment affects them?
Human-environment Interaction
A scientist who studies human life in the past by examining the things that people left behind?
Archaeologist