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Chapter 1
Workbook
Do You Remember?
1
Directions: Write the answers to these questions using complete
sentences.
1) How have we learned about what happened to people in the past?
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2) What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source? Give
an example of each.
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3) What are the five questions historians ask that begin with W?
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4) Why might one person’s account of an event be different from someone
else’s?
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5) A group’s culture is made up of many things. What are some of them?
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Chapter 1
Activity
Studying History
1
Directions: Write the correct word from the Word Bank to complete
each sentence.
Word Bank
culture
historian
interpret
combined
history
primary
diary
humanity
secondary
eyewitness
1) ________________________ is the record of past events.
2) A daily written record of what happens to a person is called a ________________________.
3) A first-hand, or ________________________, account of an event is a primary source.
4) A group’s ________________________ includes its attitudes, values, customs, and
language.
5) Someone who studies history is called a ________________________.
6) ________________________ is another word for the human race.
7) When we ________________________ something, we try to explain how it happened.
8) The American Declaration of Independence is a ________________________ source.
9) What a historian wrote about the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is
a ________________________ source.
10) The history of humanity is the ________________________ history of all peoples.
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Chapter 1
Workbook
The Importance of History
2
Directions: Complete the paragraphs below. Choose the correct term
or phrase from the Word Bank.
Word Bank
cause
history
question
connects
humanity
roots
the future
past
global
the present
History is important because it can help us remember our 1) _______________.
When we study history we understand how we got to 2) _______________. What we learn
can help us decide what to do in 3) _______________.
To understand a problem someone had in the past, we try to find out the
4)_______________ of the problem. Then, we 5) _______________ each person involved.
After we do this, we learn why the problem happened. The same is true with
6) _______________.
History 7) _______________ us to all people and gives us 8) _______________. By
studying history we feel connected with the 9) _______________ community of the past.
This community stretches back through time to the beginning of 10) _______________.
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Activity
Prehistory Puzzle
2
A. Directions: Write the correct word from the Word Bank to
complete each sentence.
1) A scientist who finds and studies things people left behind is called an
_______________.
2) Tools, weapons, pottery, jewelry, and other things people have left behind
are called _______________.
3) For historians, the past is like a _______________ puzzle.
4) Archaeologists figure out, or _______________, how ancient people
lived.
5) A scientist who might study the garbage that you throw out each day is an
_______________.
6) A small number of _______________ atoms in living things are
radioactive.
anthropologist
7) The letters A.D. stand for the _______________words anno Domini.
archaeologist
8) Radiocarbon _______________ is a way of measuring the radioactivity
of artifacts to figure out how old they are.
Word Bank
artifacts
bones
calculate
9) Based on historic events, _______________ help us keep track of time.
10) Teeth and _______________ can give clues about a person’s diet.
B. Directions: Use the words from the sentences to fill in the words in
this puzzle. The letters in the box reading down name a
group of people who write about history.
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calendars
carbon
dating
jigsaw
Latin
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Exploring the Past True or False
3
Directions: Read each sentence. Write T if the statement is true or F if
it is false.
______ 1) Prehistoric humans wrote books to keep a record of what happened in their everyday
lives.
______ 2) Archaeologists study the beginnings and the behavior of people.
______ 3) Dates are an important part of learning about history.
______ 4) Artifacts are things that earlier people made and left behind.
______ 5) Anthropologists study artifacts to learn how people lived.
______ 6) Calendars are based on historic events.
______ 7) Everyone in the world uses the same calendar to keep track of time.
______ 8) Scientists use radiocarbon dating to determine how old an artifact is.
______ 9) If archaeologists find an artifact near ancient bones, they would consider the artifact to
be around the same age as the bones.
______ 10) For some periods of history, historians have few artifacts.
______ 11) Artifacts include tools, weapons, pottery, and jewelry.
______ 12) Anthropologists learn about people’s diets by studying the garbage they throw away.
______ 13) Dates help us measure time and tell us when things happened.
______ 14) Archaeologists can always determine the exact age of an artifact.
______ 15) For historians, the past is like a jigsaw puzzle.
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Prehistory Match-Up
4
Directions: Match each item in Column A with a detail in
Column B. Write the letter of each correct answer
on the line.
Column A
Column B
______ 1) decay
a) helped early humans to store their food for later use
______ 2) embers
b) a person who moves from place to place
______ 3) farming
c) to rot away or spoil
______ 4) prehistory
d) a famous prehistoric monument made up of huge
stones
______ 5) obsidian
______ 6) nomad
______ 7) pottery
______ 8) bison
______ 9) Stonehenge
______10) boar
______11) scholar
______12) monument
______13) eclipse
______14) bronze
______15) civilization
e) a wild pig-like animal
f) a group of people with cities and government
g) the hiding of the sun by the moon
h) a hard metal made of a blend of copper and tin
i) another name for buffalo
j) the glowing remains of a fire
k) volcanic glass the Stone-Age people used to make
weapons
l) made it possible for humans to control their food
supply
m) a building or object that stands in place and is often
made of stone
n) the time before humans left written records
o) a well-educated person who has a great deal of
knowledge about something
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