Y7 History Glossary

Hypothesis

• A theory about who, what, where and why certain events took place

• A period of 100 years

• Someone who studies fossils

Artefact

• Study the characteristics of past and present human communities

• Remove earth carefully from an area in order to find buried remains

• An object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest

Decade

• A particular way of thinking about something

• Someone who makes or breaks coded messages

• A period of ten years

Primary source

• A scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials

• Is a source created during the period the historian is investigating

• Someone who studies foreign languages or can speak them very well

Cryptographer

• Someone who makes or breaks coded messages

• A period of 1,000 years

• Person who studies history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and physical remains

Excavate

• Is a source created after the period this historian is investigating 

• A period of 1,000 years

• Remove earth carefully from an area in order to find buried remains

Fossil

• The hard remains of a prehistoric animal or plant that are found inside a rock

• Someone who studies fossils

• A theory about who, what, where and why certain events took place

Millennium

• A period of ten years

• A period of 1,000 years

• A period of 100 years

Palaeontologist

• Person who studies history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and physical remains

• Remove earth carefully from an area in order to find buried remains

• Someone who studies fossils

Secondary Source

• Is a source created after the period this historian is investigating

• Is a book

• Is a source created during the period the historian is investigating