History Vocabulary 5th and 6th grade Middle School

History Words/Vocabulary  03/22/05 

1.        The kind of line that tells you when historical events took place is a time line.

2.        Another way to say a thing took place is to say it happened.

3.        Something that happened or took place is an event.

4.        A length of time is known as a period.

5.        The story of what has taken place is called history.

6.        Repeated activities or practices are called drills.

7.        What a thing holds or is made of is its content.

8.        Small or often forgotten facts and events are called trivia.

9.        Things most believe are true or really took place are called facts.

10.       Requests for information or knowledge are questions.

11.       Drawings that show where things are located are called maps.

12.       Events that took place are things in the past.

13.       Events that are taking place now are in the present.

14.       Events that will take place tomorrow or later are in the future.

15.       A person who saw something happen is an eyewitness.

16.       To judge, examine, or look at is to evaluate.

17.       To look into what happened is to investigate.

18.       Something we study is a subject.

19.       A speech, or written directions to a place, is called an address.

20.       To look for or seek out is to search.