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What is history?
The study of events and lives of people in the past.
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Who studies history?
Historians!
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So... I've heard about this thing called a timeline. what are the two time segments in it?
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Historians organize history by dividing it into blocks of time. Define Era.
A period of time
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Define Millennium
1,000 years
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Define chronology
The order of events in which they occured
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Name the four main periods in history IN ORDER
Pre-history, Ancient history, Midieval History, Modern History
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From when to when did Pre-history occur?
From the dawn of time to 4,500 BCE
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From when to when did Ancient history occur?
From 4,500 BCE to 500 CE
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From when to when did Midieval history occur?
From 500 CE to 1,500 CE
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From when to when did Modern history occur?
From 1,500 CE to right now
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Historians study a variety of sources to learn about the past, and analyze (_______) sources to figure out ______________
...(Examine)... ... Who, what, where, when, why, & how.
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Define Primary source
A firsthand experience (Account) / original info
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Define Secondary source
Account provided after the fact by someone who did not directly witness/participate in the event
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Give five examples of Primary sources
Diary, photographs, legal documents, interviews, letters, artifacts, commercials, catalogue, autobiography, maps, live news coverage, personal records, newspaper, and special event memorbelia
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Give three examples of secondary sources
Encyclopedias, biographies, textbooks, most books, movies, newspapers
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Define archaeology
The study of peoples and cultures of the past
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Archaeology is a branch of __________ with the search for past evidence and the analyzing of clues.
Anthropology!
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Archaeologists look to study...
Human and animal bones, seeds, trees, pottery, tools, weapons, mounds, pits, and canals.
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Define artifact
Objects made by mankind
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How to archaeologists gather data?
surveys on foot, photographs from airplanes or satellites, ground-penetrating radar, plot locations on maps, dig for evidence with tools from heavy equipment to shovels
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How do Archaeologists interpret findings?
Organize artifacts into groups based on similarities, compare obects in relation to other objects, look for evidence of changes over a period of time, date once-living objects by measuring carbon-14 levels, use microscopic and biological tests to date obects
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Define excavation
An archaeological dig
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Define carbon dating
A method for dating certain living objects based on the fact that carbon decreases (dissapates) over time
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Does carbon increase or depleate when an organism dies?
Depleates
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Define culture
Ways of life people have developed and shared
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Name some of the parts of culture
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Define Cultural diffusion
Spreading of culture from one place to another
It's a culture firework!
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