Show+You+Know+How+historians+work+essay

Kimberly, Hannah, Emily 6-C Humanities 9-26-11 ** Show You Know Our World Essay ** By understanding the language of historians, we can start to think like historians. We can think like historians because, we know some of the key terms such as culture, costume, and value. In this essay we are going to tell you all the definition and examples. The first key term is __Culture__. Culture is the way people of a region live like their, languages and beliefs. The second key term is custom is a kind of culture traditions. The third key term is __Value__. Values are the things that are most important in life. The fourth key term is __Sources__. Sources are to discover what you want to know. __Oral history__ is when history is passed on by the person who told that part of history. Oral history is also how that part of history was kept alive. __ Artifacts __ are mainly objects that people have made in the past. An artifact can be part of an ancient can be part of something that was ordinary. Historians can rely on the __Primary sources__ for some information about the past. A primary source is any artifact that was made at the time, like a handwritten book by a painter. Information about the past is mostly found in a __Secondary source__. A secondary source is created later than time in history. The textbook is also a secondary source. The people who study remains of past life and cultures are called __Archaeologists__. Archaeologists dig up or excavates historical sites. They use the latest techniques and to help them in their tasks. In conclusion these are all the words and definitions we learned in the __Our Worlds book__. That helped us write the essay and learned all these new terms and definitions. That’s what we learned about Customs, Culture and how Historians work.