Unit One Vocabulary Practice

A way of thinking about or understanding something; your viewpoint

• artifacts

• perspective

• primary source

• contemporary issue

Strongly held beliefs about what is valuable, important, or acceptable

• norms

• options

• values

• bias

A person who studies or writes about history

• historian

• archaeologist

• paleontologist

• pediatrician

A document that interprets/analyzes primary sources – not written at the time of the event

• primary source

• norms

• values

• secondary source

Scientists that study past human life and activities by studying the bones, tools, etc., of ancient people

• geologists

• psychologists

• archaeologists

• meteorologists

More than one way to view a situation; many viewpoints

• multiple perspectives

• secondary sources

• contemporary issues

• multiple biases

A current event or situation

• primary source

• daily drama

• contemporary issue

• perspective

Standards of proper or acceptable behavior (an example would be NO DOUBLE-DIPPING!!)

• values

• norms

• expectations

• laws

Simple objects (such as a tools or weapons) that were made by people in the past

• diorite stele

• antiques

• recycled goods

• artifacts

Document or physical object which was written or created during the time period being studied

• secondary source

• an encyclopedia

• primary source

• biography