Put the following dates in order from oldest to newest: 400 CE, 1500 BCE, 30, 320 BCE.
1500 BCE, 320 BCE, 30, 400 CE
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What century is the year 30 in?
The 1st century
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What is a primary source?
Information that originates from the time/event you are studying
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What is a secondary source?
Information that comes from after the time/event you are studying.
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What is the name of the calendar that is the most internationally accepted in the world today?
The Gregorian calendar
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Historians get a lot of information from human-made objects. What do we call these?
Artefacts
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In order to know if a source is reliable, historians need to ask a number of questions. Think of 3 of these questions.
Who is this information coming from? When was it written? Where was it written? Why did the author write this? What do other sources say? What evidence is used?
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How many years are in a century?
100 years
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How many years are in a decade?
10 years
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How many years are in a millennium?
1000 years
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What does BC stand for?
Before Christ
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What does Anno Domini (AD) mean?
In the year of our Lord.
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What are the non-religious equivalents of BC and AD?
