Digging up the Past: Key terms

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Definition

Term

a period of 10 years
the site of an archaeological exploration
a particular society at a particular time and place
a period of 100 years
used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born; "in
200 BC"
arrangement of events in their time
a society in an advanced state of social development
a man-made object taken as a whole
a sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and
displayed along a line
analysis of primary sources. Examples of secondary sources are
books and articles that review and interpret primary sources.
in the Christian era; used before dates after the supposed year
Christ was born; "in AD 200"
a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and
writes about it
belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
the period of history from 1601 of the common era to the present
period of time equal to one thousand years
the period of history from the year 500 through 1450 of the
common era
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the
past to the present and even into the future
the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human
history in the Old World until the Early Middle Ages in Europe and
the Qin Dynasty in China
the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their
cultures
the original text
Terms:
BC or BCE
prehistoric
Modern

decade
timeline
secondary

dig
historian
artefact

culture
civilization
chronological

history
AD or CE
century

History
millennium

sources
Medieval

Archaeology

order
Ancient

primary

History

sources

History