Investigating the Ancient Past
Authored by Jayden Goodal
History
7th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a Historian?
Someone who studies or has expert knowledge of natural or physical science.
Someone who is a professionally cooks in a hotel or restaurant.
Someone who writes or studies about the past.
Someone who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is an Archaeologist?
Someone who writes and studies about the past.
Someone who studies or has expert knowledge in natural or physical science.
Someone who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites.
Someone who professionally cooks in a hotel or restaurant.
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Tick the boxes that are characteristics of a historian (more than one can be ticked).
Studies and writes about the past.
Use the past to build an image of societies, individuals and events.
Excavates or digs in the ground to find evidence of past civilisations.
Participates in field work (digging).
Looks at texts to understand and write about the past.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Fill in the blank.
Primary sources are ____________-hand accounts of objects from an event, topic or historical time period.
first
second
third
primary
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A secondary source is a ____________-hand account that interprets primary sources.
first
second
third
primary
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the following text and determine whether it would be a primary or secondary source.
A historians perspective on the rise of Hitler.
Primary source.
Secondary source.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Read the following text and determine whether it would be a primary or secondary source.
A World War II soldier uniform.
Primary source.
Secondary source.
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