Historian's Toolkit Review

How is a primary source mainly different from a secondary source?

• A primary source contains less bias

• A primary source contains evidence from a witness to the event in history

• A secondary source contains more bias

• A secondary source contains evidence from a witness to the event in history

Which option below has the blocks of time in order from shortest to longest.

• era, century, year, decade

• era, decade, century, year

• year, century, era, decade

• year, decade, century, era

Credible means...

• trustworthy

• biased

• judgmental

• fanciful

Why is it important for historians to use credible sources?

• so their work sounds good

• so their work is more likely to contain errors

• so their work is more likely to be accurate

• so their work is more likely to contain coconuts

Credible sources have evidence that's...

• biased, meaning full of judgment and emotion

• wrong, meaning factually incorrect

• inaccurate, meaning found only in that source

• verifiable, meaning found in other sources

An inference is...

• making an educated guess based on evidence in the text

• making a guess that isn't based on evidence in the text

• making an judgment based on personal beliefs

• making an judgment based on personal love of coconuts

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Historians can look at the same evidence and come to different interpretations of it because...

• of their own point of view, which is different from other historians

• of their own bias for or against certain groups

• some facts are ambiguous, meaning open to interpretation

• new evidence is discovered, which changes interpretations over time

Ambiguous means...

• fuzzy, like a coconut

• judgmental, emotional

• wrong, factually incorrect

• unclear, open to interpretation

Someone who studies the past by looking at the objects humans have left behind is called a what?

• paleontologist

• anthropologist

• archeologist

• coconutologist

What is the vocab word for objects made by people?

• artifacts

• fossils

• cultures

• coconuts