Name: ________________________________________________________________ Period: ___________
Chapter 1: Think Like a Historian Study Guide
Lesson 1: What is History?
1.
History is the study of ______________________________________________________________________________
2.
History tells the story of ____________________________________________________________________________
3.
What are the names of people who study history? _______________________________________________________
4.
What is a historian’s job? ___________________________________________________________________________
5.
What do effects mean? ____________________________________________________________________________
6.
History explains why things _________________________________________________________________________
7.
What does integral mean? __________________________________________________________________________
8.
One way to measure time is to ______________________________________________________________________
9.
What is a decade? ________________________________________________________________________________
10. What is a century? ________________________________________________________________________________
11. What is a millennium? _____________________________________________________________________________
12. What does eras mean? _____________________________________________________________________________
13. Prehistory is the time ______________________________________________________________________________
14. What do we call the time after Prehistory? ______________________________ Medieval Period? ________________
_______________________________Today? ___________________________________________________________
15. What is a calendar? _______________________________________________________________________________
16. Which three cultures based their calendars on the moon? _______________&_________________&______________
17. The calendar we use today is based in part on which Roman Emperor? ______________________________________
18. This is called the _____________calendar and it started counting years based on the ___________________________
19. What does precisely mean? _________________________________________________________________________
20. What differences did the Gregorian calendar have from the Julian calendar? __________________________________
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21. What type of calendar is most widely used today? _______________________________________________________
22. What does B.C.E stand for? __________________________________ What does C.E. stand for? _________________
23. A time line is used to _____________________________________________________________________________
and show the order of _____________________________________________________________________________
24. Timelines also show the amount of _______________________________________________________________ and
events are placed on a time line at __________________________________________________________________
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25. Heinrich Schliemann is considered the founder of ________________________________________________ because
he possibly uncovered the lost city of _____________________________ while digging in Turkey.
26. Timelines help historians ___________________________________________________________________________
27. What is Archaeology? ______________________________________________________________________________
28. What are artifacts? ________________________________________________________________________________
29. Common artifacts include _______________, ___________________, _____________________, & _______________
30. What is Paleontology? _____________________________________________________________________________
31. What are fossils? _________________________________________________________________________________
32. What is Anthropology? _____________________________________________________________________________
33. Who was Lucy and why was she important? ____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
34. What does species mean? __________________________________________________________________________
Lesson 2: How Does a Historian Work?
1.
What is evidence? _________________________________________________________________________________
2.
What are sources? ________________________________________________________________________________
3.
Historians look for clues in what two types of sources? _________________________&_________________________
4.
What are primary sources? _________________________________________________________________________
5.
Primary sources were written or created by ____________________________________________________________
6.
Primary sources can include ______________________&________________________&________________________
&____________________________&_______________________________&________________________________
&______________________________________________&_______________________________________________
7.
Primary sources help historians learn _________________________________________________________________
and they use the sources to _________________________________________________________________________
8.
What are secondary sources? _______________________________________________________________________
9.
Secondary sources are created by ____________________________________________________________________
10. Four examples of secondary sources are ________________________________&_____________________________
&_________________________________________________&____________________________________________
11. Why is the Domesday Book a primary source? __________________________________________________________
12. What is point of view? _____________________________________________________________________________
13. What is bias? _____________________________________________________________________________________
14. When historians write about an event, they interpret the information from primary sources to ___________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
15. What is making an inference? _______________________________________________________________________
16. What does scholarly mean? _________________________________________________________________________
17. What is historiography? ____________________________________________________________________________
18. What does finite mean? ____________________________________________________________________________
19. What are conclusions? _____________________________________________________________________________
20. What are interpretations? __________________________________________________________________________
Lesson 3: Researching History
1.
The first step in history research is ___________________________________________________________________
2.
When choosing a topic, create six questions covering the who, __________________________, _________________,
_______________________, _________________________________, ______________________________________
3.
When gathering reference materials, what three reference books are the most likely to be used?
___________________________, _________________________________, __________________________________
4.
Opinion statements in the text might give you a clue that the resource could be _________________&____________
5.
A statement of fact expresses only ___________________________________________________________________
6.
A statement of opinion expresses an attitude and it is a conclusion or judgment about something that ____________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
7.
Historical research should rely on ___________________________&________________________________________
8.
Why is the information on the internet not necessarily factual or accurate? __________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
9.
What are credentials? _____________________________________________________________________________
10. What four types of internet sites are considered reliable? ________________________________________________,
_______________________________, ___________________________________, ____________________________
11. What is an URL? __________________________________________________________________________________
12. What does .gov stand for? __________________________________________________________________________
13. What is data? ____________________________________________________________________________________
14. What does .edu stand for? __________________________________________________________________________
15. What does .org stand for? __________________________________________________________________________
16. What does plagiarize mean? ________________________________________________________________________
17. What does forgery mean? __________________________________________________________________________
18. What does violate mean? ___________________________________________________________________________
19. What are copyright laws? ___________________________________________________________________________
20. To avoid plagiarism, follow these rules:
a.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
b.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
c.
____________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________
21. Your evaluations of history should be based on _________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________