Let

1
Lets Talk History
Numbers? I thought this was social studies, not
math!
How on Earth do you read that?
2

• Prehistory
• History
• Historians

• BEFORE written records
• A WRITTEN record of the past
• A person who finds out what happened in the past.

3
History

• Prehistory Example
• Oral stories or narratives passed down from
  older generations to younger generations.
• Traditions, beliefs, folklore,
• Thanksgiving table
• Crazy Uncle
• Culture describes the beliefs, traditions,
  music, art and social institutions of a group of
  people,

4
Sources of Information

• Primary Sources

• First hand original accounts of historical
  events. Example letters, diaries, speeches,
  autobiographies, newspaper reports, a person who
  was there, remains, clothing, art, graves.

5

• Secondary Sources

• Accounts of historical events written by people
  who did not personally witness the event.
  Example biographies, textbooks, maps,
  encyclopedias and reference books.

6
Using Primary Sources

• Frame of Reference

• A persons views can be influenced by social
  group, religion, occupation, and political
  attitudes.

7
Yum sandwiches!
8
Details are still sketchy, but we think the
name of the bird sucked into the jet's engines
was Harold Meeker."
9
How birds see the world
10
"Oh, Ginger you look absolutely stunning ...
and whatever you rolled in sure does stink."
11
Dates

• Chronology
• Time line

• The order in which events occur.
• Shows at a glance the chronology or time order of
  events

12

• B.C.
• B.C.E.

• Stands for before Christ.
• Starts backwards from when Christ was born.
• Before Common Era (same time period as B.C.)

13

• A.D. (you usually
• Wont see this)
• C.E.

• Latin abbreviation anno Domino which means in the
  year of our lord.
• Starts when Christ was born
• Common Era- same as A.D. current time period

14
TIME LINE
15
SIMPLE RULES TO REMEMBER

• ADD THE BC (OR BCE) DATE TO THE PRESENT DATE TO
  FIND OUT HOW LONG AGO AN EVENT WITH A BC DATE
• SUBTRACT THE AD (OR CE) DATE FROM THE PRESENT
  YEAR TO FIND OUT HOW LONG AGO THE EVENT WAS

16
Centuries

• To figure out what Century (every 100 years) an
  event happened in, you look at the first number
  (or numbers) of the year and add 1 (this is
  because there is no year 0)
• Ex. 1764 is the 18th Century 17 1 18
• 2010 is the 21st century 20 1 21
• 789 is the 8th century 718

17

• Decade
• Century
• Centennial
• Bicentennial

• 10 years
• 100 years
• Celebration every 100 years
• Celebration every 200 years

18
Practice

• 1) The year 500 B.C. or B.C.E. happened
• A. before 300 B.C.
• B. after 300 B.C.
• C. at the same time
• 2) How many years ago was A.D. 1510?
• 3) What would you do to find out long ago 200
  B.C. was?

• 4) What century is 1776?
• 5) If humans arrived in North America some 30,000
  years ago, was that before or after the Birth of
  Christ?

19
ANSWERS

• 1) The year 500 B.C. or B.C.E. happened
• A. before 300 B.C.
• B. after 300 B.C.
• C. at the same time
• 2) How many years ago was A.D. 1510? 500 years
• 3) What would you do to find out long ago 200
  B.C. was? Add 200 to the current year 2,210

• 4) What century is 1776? 18th
• 5) If humans arrived in North America some 30,000
  years ago, was that before or after the Birth of
  Christ? Before

20
Archaeologists v. Anthropologists

• Archaeologists study the artifacts and fossils
  to learn about the life and people of early
  times.
• Anthropologists study the development of human
  culturePaint us a picture of the times.
• Carbon 14 Testing used to help date artifacts
  and fossils
• Dr. W.F. Libby

21
(No Transcript)
22
(No Transcript)
23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
(No Transcript)
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
(No Transcript)
30
(No Transcript)