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
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