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History chapter 1

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Written or made at the time an event took place
Eg. Original buildings, photographs,films,newspaper
,letters,books
Primary source??
Second hand evidence. It is written or made by someone
Who did not witness the event.
Eg. Textbooks, reconstructions of historical sites or buildings
Secondary source?
Sources can often be biased and may not always be
Reliable. Eg. Autobiography may concentrate on their good points and may not truthfully refer to any of their faults
Can you always rely on sources?
Propaganda
What is the information in the source called when used to promote the ideas of a particular organisation?
1. Find out who wrote the material

2. Try to find out if the author is a member of a political party or an organisation that may hold a particular viewpoint. Watch out for articles in newspapers as some papers support political parties and may not present and objective view
What should you look out for when studying a written source?
Photos can be changed/ altered. This was a common practice during Joseph Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union (1927-53) those who Stalin thought were disloyal or out of favour were removed from old photographs
What do you need to be careful about when studying visual sources?
A written account of personal experiences.
What is a memoir?
BC and AD
BC: (before christ) stands for years that took place before the birth of Christ.
AD: (anno domini, Latin word for " in the year of the Lord" ) is used to refer to the happenings after Chris's birth.
What letter do historians use when dating the past , and what do they mean?
Artefacts are usually stored in museums
Where are artefacts stored?
Written documents are housed in library's or archives. In recent years written documents have been stored on computer files
Where are written documents stored ?
Archeology is the study of things people left behind them. It is a way of finding out about the earliest period of history before written records were kept, this period is known as pre-history.
What is archeology?
Those that seek and study ancient artefacts
What is an archeologist ?
Any man made object
What is an artefact?
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
What three parts can pre-history be divided into??
This is because soil is made up of the remains of plants and trees that have died over 1000s of years . As more and more plants and trees die, extra layers are added to the ground. The deeper the artefact is buried the older it is likely to be.
Why are most ancient objects buried beneath the ground
Stratigraphy
What is the study of soil layers
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