History and Evidence

Learning Objective: To understand that evidence can take different

forms.

Quiz1. Can you put the following dates in order, starting with the earliest:

1066, 45BC, 1710BC, 124, 1914, 675BC.2. How would explain to someone what a primary source is?3. What do the letters B.C. stand for?4. What do the letters A.D. stand for? (don’t worry about the spelling)5. How would you explain to someone what a secondary source is?6. How many years make a decade?7. What other letters can be used in place of A.D.?8. How many years in a millennium?9. What other letters can be used in place of B.C.?10. How many years in a century?

Answers1. 1710BC, 675BC, 45BC, 124, 1066, 1914 (6 marks)2. From the time/Of the time.(1 mark)3. Before Christ. (1 mark)4. Anno Domini.(1mark)5. Not from the time/By someone who was not present at the time. (1

mark)6. 10 years. (1 mark)7. C.E. (bonus = Common Era) (1 mark + a bonus point)8. 1000 years. (1 mark)9. B.C.E. (bonus=Before the Common Era) (1 mark + a bonus point)10. 100 years. (1 mark)TOTAL MARKS = 17

Types of evidence

• Evidence can come in many different forms. There can be VISUAL, ORAL of PHYSICAL evidence.

• Can you think of any examples?

VISUAL

• Visual evidence can take the form of paintings, photographs, even the geography of the land provides visual evidence.

Here are some examples of VISUAL evidence:

ORAL

• Oral evidence can take the form of poems, stories, folk law, and experiences.

Here are some examples of ORAL evidence:

PHYSICAL

• Physical evidence may be represented by a castle, or certain artefacts like pottery. Physical evidence may also take the form of monuments, built to remember a certain event.

Here are some examples of PHYSICAL evidence: