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Unit One Eastern Civilizations
Unit One Eastern Civilizations
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1
Which statement describes the idea of time?
time doesn't have anything to do with history
cultures created calendar systems to structure time
time refers only to the hours in a day
2
The system or way people in a society provide and keep order is known as
government
economy
religion
3
Since we cannot study historical events directly, historians must rely on
primary and secondary sources
Both
evidence left behind
4
Hemispheres, continents, countries, states - "containers" - example of
topography
spatial scale (space)
calendar systems
5
Two ways to evaluate the accuracy of a source are __________.
figure out if the person telling the history is honest
to explore the internal consistency and external consistenc
to ask two different people
6
What is the correct order of the following three terms on the chart below?
historian, account, event
account, historian, event
event, historian, account
7
Maps are ______________ of places.
representations
objects
events
8
Which of the following statements about calendar systems is correct?
Calendar systems contain parts of its own culture.
All calendars are based off the Islamic calendar.
the Mayan calendar is used by most.
9
One problem a cartographer has is trying to place a spherical earth onto:
a globe
a 3 dimensional space
a 2 dimensional space
10
Which of the following is true about social institutions?
all societies have to develop them
tax money can never be used to support them
people have to pay to use them
11
Tools that help historians to organize events of the past and information include:
significance, time, space, institutions
maps, compass, rulers, textbooks
secondary sources, computers
12
History can be classified as events and _________ of the past.
maps
accounts
people
13
All of the timelines below are in the correct order from the oldest to the most recent except:
48 BCE, 2 CE, 59 CE, 2014 CE
3,987 BCE, 1497 BCE, 18 CE, 1987 CE
2,045 BCE, 1967 CE, 482 BCE, 2014 CE
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Historical accounts are based off from people’s interpretation or
knowledge
perspective
history
15
The system or way people in a society produce and distribute goods and services
family
economy
government
16
A cartographer creates a map with different purposes, different knowledge, and different
perspectives
continents
per
map legends or keys
17
Schools, governments, religion, economic systems, and family are all examples
institutions
evidence
historical accounts
18
A timeline using era’s as “chunks” would be a historian organizing the past through
significance
spatial scales
temporal frames
19
Which would a historian use if viewing history through a spatial scale?
When it happened?
Where it happened?
How important was the event?
20
Two social institutions that are necessary for a society to function
the mall and the movie theater
a house and a car
government and language