Historians - Sources

• primary source


  evidence directly from the past
• secondary source


  evidence about the past but not directly from the past
• archaeologist


  An expert that excavates and studies artefacts and evidence from past
• century


  100 years
• decade


  10 years
• chronology


  arrangement of events in time
• BCE


  Before Common Era
• AD


  Anno Domini
• propaganda


  Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
• Bias


  one sided information
• source


  evidence from the past
• artefact

  man made object from the past
• archive


  a place where written sources and documents are stored
• prehistory


  a time before writing
• autobiography


  Primary source
• biography


  secondary source