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The Nature of History

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  • What does it mean to Cite?
    Refer to evidence you have gathered or read
  • What is a Tactile Source?
    a source that can be touched a physical item or object
  • What is a Primary Source?
    Source from the time of the event, first hand account of what happened
  • What is accuracy?
    Judging how correct the information is
  • What is a handling box?
    Contains replicas or copies of artefacts so they can be examined without damaging the original
  • What is Bias?
    Unfairly favours one side
  • What is a Source?
    Anything that gives us information about the past
  • What is a Biography?
    Account of a persons life written by someone else
  • What is a Museum?
    A place that collects objects for display and public education
  • What is an archaeologist?
    Someone who investigates places or objects left by people in the past
  • What is a Secondary Source?
    Source from a later date from after the time of the event
  • What is a Census?
    An official Survey of a Population
  • What is Cross-Checking?
    Using more than one source to make sure the information is correct
  • What is Prehistory?
    Before writing was invented
  • What is Chronology?
    Putting events in the sequence that they happened?
  • What is archaeology?
    Study of Remains left by people in the past
  • What is a Historian?
    Someone who is an expert or student of History
  • What is History?
    The study of the past
  • What is plagiarism?
    Passing off someone else's work or ideas as your own
  • What is an autobiography?
    an account of a persons life written by the person themselves
  • What is an Artefact?
    any human made object example pottery tool or weapon
  • What is an archive?
    Place that stores sources
  • What is Propaganda?
    Information designed to influence the public