History assessment 1 Year 7

Define the following terms:

Key Term

Definition

 

Chronology

 

Evidence

 

Contestability

 

Source

 

Artefact

 

 

Identify the length of time indicated by the following terms:

Century

 

Day

 

Decade

 

Fortnight

 

Hour

 

Millennium

 

Minute

 

Month

 

Second

 

Week

 

Year

 

 

Fill in the following table:

Old abbreviation

Meaning

Current abbreviation

Meaning

BC

 

 

Before common era

 

Anno domini (Latin for ‘in the year of our Lord’)

CE

 

 

Complete the following practice by writing the corresponding years or century:

1st century CE =

1600s CE =

200s CE =

300s BCE =

400s CE =

4th century CE =

6th century BCE =

21st century CE =

5th century CE =

19th century CE =

1200s BCE =

0s BCE =

500s BCE =

25th century BCE =

16th century CE =

1600s CE =

 

Define primary source

 

 

Define secondary source

 

 

Identify whether the following are primary or secondary sources by placing a P or S:

Diary written by someone who witnessed a historical event

 

History textbook

 

Documentary about WWII

 

Otzi’s body

 

Pottery from Ancient Greece

 

Book written in the 1950s about Ancient Egypt

 

PowerPoint slides about Ancient Rome

 

History essay you write for your school exam

 

Birth certificate

 

Great Pyramid of Giza

 

 

Define the following job roles in history:

Linguists and cryptographers

 

Palaeontologists

 

Geneticists

 

Geophysical surveyors

 

Forensic pathologists

 

Anthropologist

 

Archaeologist

 

Biologist

 

 

Define stratigraphy

 

 

Why is stratigraphy useful to historians?

 

 

 

Which layer is the oldest? Identify two ways you can tell.

 

 

Who was Otzi?

 

 

Identify the following objects found with Otzi.

 

Identify three theories about how Otzi died and provide supporting evidence.

Theory

Supporting evidence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who were Mungo Man and Mungo Lady?

 

 

Define the following terms and provide an example of each:

Term

Definition

Example

Conservation

 

 

Preservation

 

 

Restoration

 

 

 

Ancient Egypt

When did Ancient Egyptian civilisation exist?

 

 

What is the Nile and why is it significant?

 

 

What are the black land and the red land?