Short Answer Questions

Question 1

What is primary source. Give example

Answer 1

A primary source is a source that existed or was created during the time period being studied. Eg Rosetta Stone

Question 2

What is a secondary source. Give an example

Answer 2

A secondary source is a source that existed or was created after the time period being studied. Eg textbooks

Question 3

List three types of professionals who investigate the past:

Answer 3

Palaeontologist
Historian
Geologist

Question 4

In which centuries did the following dates occur

a) 45BCE
b) 1984CE
c) 268BCE
d) 87CE

Answer 4

a) 1st century BCE
b) 20th century CE
c) 3rd century BCE
d) 1st century CE

Question 5

Define BC

Answer 5

Before Christ

Question 6

BCE

Answer 6

Before Common Era

Question 7

AD

Answer 7

Anno Domini

Question 8

CE

Answer 8

Common Era

Question 9

Circa

Answer 9

Around/approximately

Question 10

Century

Answer 10

100 years

Question 11

Archaeology

Answer 11

The study of Ancient and recent human past

Question 12

Stratigraphy

Answer 12

The study of the different layers of the Earth

Question 13

Dendrochronolgy

Answer 13

Tree ring dating.

Question 14

Radio carbon dating

Answer 14

Finds out the age of an object by finding out how much carbon is in it. However there is no carbon left in any living thing after 40,000 years

Question 15

Chronology

Answer 15

Order of which events occurred

Question 16

Hypothesis

Answer 16

A educated guess that can be tested

Question 17

Thermo luminescence

Answer 17

Heating up an object to see how much light it admits to work out how old it is

Question 18

DNA analysis

Answer 18

DNA probe to work out the identity of a person and their genes