What Does a Historian Do?

the study of objects to learn about past human life

• artifact

• conclusion

• scholarly

• archaeology

a decision reached after examination of evidence

• conclusion

• anthropology

• artifact

• scholarly

an object made by people

• conclusion

• artifact

• archaeology

• anthropology

concerned with academic learning or research

• archaeology

• artifact

• conclusion

• scholarly

the study of human culture and how it develops over time

• artifact

• scholarly

• anthropology

• conclusion

Ten decades is call a

• Era

• Century

• Millennium

• leap year

Which of the following is considered a primary resource?

• Diary

• Encyclopedia

• Junior Scholastic magazine

• History textbook

Historians studying the same topic will always come to the same conclusion.

• True

• False

Why didn't this cave painting include a written description of what was happening?

• It's just artistic work.

• It was drawn before people learned to write.

• It was too dark in the cave to write.

• They didn't have ink for writing.

What can you infer from the cave painting?

• The artist was a woman.

• They used berries for paint.

• Hunting was important to the people.

• Fishing was important to their survival.