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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is an artefact?An object made or altered by peopleany object from the pastobject on display in musuema truth about the past - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat does the term BCE mean?Before Christ EraBefore Common EraBefore Christian EraBefore Christ's Ececution
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich century does the year 1150CE fall in?12115051
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a secondary source?A source created during the period the historian is investigatingsource from a secondary school textbooka reconstruction of the past by people living at a later timea visual source
- 5. Multiple ChoiceSecondary Sources are always more reliable than primary sourcesTrueFalse
- 6. Multiple ChoiceAn eye witness to an event will always be the most reliable sourceFalseTrue
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhen sources disagree about a particular issue it is called?Supporting evidenceContradictory evidenceUseless evidenceUnbiased evidence
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the name of a person who digs up evidence?PalaeontologistForensic BiologistArchaeologistDendrochronologist
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the period before writing was invented called?PrehistoryAncient HistoryModern HistoryBefore History
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a hypothesis?A scientific explanation of eventsA factual accountA biased accountA possible theory to explain what happened
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following are in correct chronological order?395 CE 218 BCE 44BCE44 BCE 27 BCE 218 BCE218 BCE 44BCE 27 BCE27 BCE 218 BCE 44 BCE
- 12. Multiple ChoiceDendrochronology is another name for?Tree ring datingDNA testingRadiocarbon datingTL dating
- 13. Multiple ChoiceStratigraphy refers to?HandwritingArchaeologists toolsEvidenceLayers of the earth
- 14. Multiple ChoiceAn example of an important Australian source would be?Otzi manMungo manTutankhamunShroud of Turin
- 15. Multiple ChoiceHistory is important because?We can learn from past mistakesWe can learn about other culturesWe know what happened in the pastAll of the above
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