Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What is History?
- History is the study of past events,
particularly in human affairs
- History is really important because it helps us
understand why we live the way we are living and
why we are where we are as a species and country.
- What is time?
- We divide time into different stages
- Every ten years
- Decade
- One hundred years
- Century
- One thousand years
- Millennium
- Before Christ
- B.C
- After Christ
- A.D
- Periods
- Separate divisions of time
- Chronological is when you arrange events in order of
time, with what happened longest ago first, and the
most recent last
- How to work out the century when you are given a year
- If its a four digit number you take the last
to numbers and you add one
- If you only have one digit you just
subtract it by one
- What are sources
- Sources are the clues that tell us about the past
- E.g: How people used to live or what they thought
- Sources can be anything from the past
- All sorts of things can be sources
- Documents
- (written sources)
- Pictures
- Buildings
- Artefacts
- An artefact is a source, it is usually
an object or a building an object or a
building, an artefact is never a
written source, an oral source or a
picture source
- Skeletons
- What is Bias?
- Bias is putting across an unfair or one sided opinion
- Being biased could sometimes be useful to historians because it
helps them lean more about people's opinions and beliefs .
- Spotting bias is a skill that all historians need to develop
- Primary and secondary sources
- Primary source
- A primary source comes directly from the time in History we are studying
- Secondary source
- A secondary source is about the time we are studying, but
it's written or created some time after the event