History Keywords PDF

History keywords 1. sources=is pieces of evidence used by historians to explain why and how events in history happen 2. archaeologist= is a person who studies ancient civilisations by examining items buried in the ground such as tools,bones and remains of buildings 3....

History keywords 1. sources=is pieces of evidence used by historians to explain why and how events in history happen 2. archaeologist= is a person who studies ancient civilisations by examining items buried in the ground such as tools,bones and remains of buildings 3. Primary source=is a source that come directly from the past eg an eyewitness account of a event 4. Central statistics office=the organisation that keeps all the information collected at each census about each citizen 5. Census=an official account of the population 6. Secondary source=evidence taken from a later date about an event, examples of secondary source=history book,biography written about someone's life about someone else. 7. Bias=is a form of prejudice an unfair preference for or dislike of something. 8. Propaganda=information or rumours created and spread to influence public views about people or events. 9. Exaggeration=stating that someone or something is more or less bigger or smaller better or worse than is actually so. 10. Chronology=the order in which events happen 11. Decade=a timespan of 10 years 12. Millennium=a timespan of 100 years 13. Anno domini (AD) =s in the year of our lord. 14. Artefact=is an object eg tool,this is of interest to a historian or archaeologist 15. Geophysics= a method which allows archaeologists to look under the soil for artefacts. 16. rescue/salvage archaeology=when archaeologists excavate an area because a new building or motorway is about to be built in that area. 17. excavation/dig=is the location of a archaeologists work 18. museum= a building in which artefacts are kept in safe conditions 19. stratigraphy= a method of dating artefacts by dating the objects found at the same level in the ground 20. Carbon dating= a method of calculating the age of a object by measuring how much radioactive carbon is present in it 21. dendrochronology= a method of dating wooden objects by examining the tree ring patterns and comparing them with other records 22. DNA= the substance that carries every organism's genetic information.it can be used to find out more information about skeletons and bodies that have been discovered. 23. perspectives= the different ways that people look at or view something 24. Historical empathy= the ability to view, understand and appreciate particular events or actions from somebody's else's point of view or perspective.