What is History

What is an artifact?

• An object made or altered by people

• any object from the past

• object on display in musuem

• a truth about the past

What is a secondary source?

• A source created during the period the historian is investigating
• source from a secondary school textbook
• a reconstruction of the past by people living at a later time
• a visual source

Secondary Sources are always more reliable than primary sources

• True
• False

An eye witness to an event will always be the most reliable source

• False
• True

What is the name of a person who digs up evidence?

• Palaeontologist
• Forensic Biologist
• Archaeologist
• Dendrochronologist

What is the period before writing was invented called?

• Prehistory
• Ancient History
• Modern History
• Before History

History is important because?

• We can learn from past mistakes
• We can learn about other cultures
• We know what happened in the past
• All of the above

something that can be proven to be true.

• Fact 
• Opinion

Digging up mummies in Egypt is an example of...

• Discovery

• Archeology

• Species

• Paleontology

How many years in a century

• 1000

• 10

• a long period of time

• 100