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Time and History

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  • Ancient history began in _____ and ended in ______.
    3200 BC and 476 AD
  • Name two of Ancient History
    Developed written language (Latin and Hieroglyphics), developed skills and had jobs and many buildings from Ancient history can still be visited today.
  • How many months in a year?
    12
  • What type of historical source is this?
    Visual
  • When did the Modern Age end?
    the 18th Century.
  • Tell me three things about the paleolithic period
    People were nomads (did not live in one place), collected fruit, hunted and fished, started to use fire, made simple tools with wood, bones and stone
  • Name two characteristics of the Middle Ages
    Time of war between kingdoms, people built castles to defend territories, Christians built churches and cathedrals and Moors built mosques.
  • What are the four types of historical sources?
    Oral, Written, Visual and Physical
  • What are the five main periods of history, in order?
    Prehistory, Ancient history, the middle ages, the modern age, and the contemporary age
  • How many years in a century?
    100
  • People who study history are called __________.
    Historians
  • What does BC mean? For example, 300 BC
    Before the birth of Jesus Christ
  • What year did the modern age begin and what event happened that year?
    1492. Christopher Columbus landed in America.
  • What type of historical source is this?
    Written
  • How many years in a millenium?
    1,000
  • What does AD mean? For example, 400AD
    After the birth of Jesus Christ
  • What type of historical source is this?
    Oral
  • How do you say the year? 1792
    Seventeen ninety-two
  • What type of historical source is this?
    Physical
  • When did the Middle Ages begin and end?
    With the fall of the Roman Empire until the 15th Century.
  • How many years in a decade?
    10
  • Tell me three things about the neolithic period
    People lived in one place and formed communities, grew crops, had domestic animals, made complex stone tools and began to polish their tools.
  • What three main civilizations developed?
    Egyptian, Greek and Roman
  • Prehistory is divided into two parts:
    The palaeolithic and neolithic periods