American History Pt. 1
Terms
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- People who study about people, places, and events of the past.
- What are historians?
- People who actually sees some act or happening.
- What is an eyewitness?
- Scientist who studies ancient ruins and artifacts to learn about the past.
- What is an archaeologist?
- Friendly nation that helps another nation in a war.
- What is an ally?
- Scientific name for humans.
- What is Homo sapiens?
- Uncivilized people.
- What are barbarians?
- Land just beyond the settled edge of a nation
- What is a frontier?
- Settlements people made in lands away from their own nations
- What were colonies?
- Large settled area conquered and controlled by a single power
- What is an empire?
- North America, Central America, and South America
- What was the New World?
- Places where the first known civilizations were established
- What were river valleys?
- Way to measure the passage of days, months, and years
- What is a calendar?
- Time before history was written
- What is prehistoric time?
- Period of 100 years
- What is a century?
- Event used in the Christian calendar to measure time
- What is the birth of Christ?
- Period of 10 years
- What is a decade?
- Period after the Bronze Age when humans used tools made from iron
- What was the Iron Age?
- What A.D. stands for
- What is Anno Domini?
- agreement between nations
- What is a treaty?
- Humans' belief in God or the supernatural
- What is religion?
- Item of information
- What is a fact?
- Agreement that ends a war
- What is a peace treaty?
- Groups of people who make laws that others must obey
- What is a government?
- Attack in which hostile troops of one nation enter another nation
- What is an invasion?
- Term for a nation with more people than it can support
- What is overpopulation?
- Empire-building by nation
- What is imperialism?
- A human-made object, such as a tool or weapon
- What is an artifact?
- An event or time that marks the beginning of a new development
- What is an epoch?
- Period of time figured from some particular date
- What is an era?
- Period of 20 years
- What is a score?
- Prehistoric period during which humans used tools made from stone
- What was the Stone Age?
- Period of 1,000 years
- What is a millennium?
- Long period of time
- What is an eon?
- Period of approximately 33 years
- What is a generation?
- Conflicts in which two parts of the same nation fight each other
- What are civil wars?
- Facts that point toward what is true and what is false about an event
- What is evidence?
- Careful hunting for facts or truth
- What is research?
- Idea about how something happened
- What is a theory?
- Exact words of someone
- What is a quotation?
- Culture or ways of living of a society
- What is civilization?
- Happenings are connected to one another in some way
- What are related events?
- Family of rulers
- What is a dynasty?