H0 Introduction

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Memo year 1 HV

Introduction

An exciting subject?

This lesson

Welcome

Rules

Explaining your school book

Working with history

aims

At the end of this paragraph… 

You can explain what chronology is.  

you know what decade, century and Millennium mean.  

You can explain what BC means.

You can explain what kind of sources there are.

You know the difference between prehistory and history is.

You can explain when prehistory ended.

What is history about?

1. animals
2. plants
3. people
4. planets

History is about things people experienced in the past.

To make things clear we put events in order : a timeline.

We also call this chronology. To put something in chronological order .

In the previous questions you have seen what timelines look like.

Why is this timeline incorrect?

1. A timeline must always start with year 1
2. A timeline always has periods of 100 years.
3. A timeline always has divided periods of time of equal length .
4. The last year of every timeline is always the year we live in now.

Sometimes a number of years have a specific name:

decade

century

millennium

100 years

1000 years

10 years

century

millennium

decade

A century is a period of  100 years. 

De 1st century is from the year  1 up until 100. 

De 2nd century is from the year 101 up until 200. 

De 3rd century is from the year 201 up until 300. 

De 16th century is from the year 1501 up until 1600. 

What century is the following year in ?

31

1. 1st century BC
2. 1st century
3. 2nd century BC
4. 2nd century

What century is the following year in ?

299 BC

1. 2nd century BC
2. 2nd century
3. 3rd century BC
4. 3rd century

What century is the following year in?

1612

1. 16th century BC
2. 16th century
3. 17th century BC
4. 17th century

Christian calendar

• Starts with the year 1 (careful: the year 0 does not exist!)

• Birth of Christ

• Most used calendar

• But...history doesn't start at the year 1 of course!

The ten ages

• created for education

• All start with: " The age of ..."

• They are not all the same length of time: Some are more than a thousand years, others just 50 years.

• They've looked at their characteristics: "How do we recognise these ages?

What subject belongs to this period?

1. The Middle Ages
2. The world wars
3. The Stone Age
4. The Romans

What period is this age?

1. 1600-1700
2. 1800-1900
3. 1900-1950
4. 1950-now

What do you already know about sources?

written sources

• Books
• Letters
• bills/accounts

Unwritten sources

• Rock drawings
  
• Spearheads
• Different layers of soil
• Graves
• Coins

Prehistory

• History = written history

• Pre = before

• The time before people can write

Prehistory

• Prehistory did not end at the same time all over the world!

• When a people started to use script (writing), their prehistory ended and their history began.

Sources from prehistory are only unwritten sources.

1. true
2. false

Sources from history are only written sources.

1. true
2. false

Practise

We will now practise with centuries before and after Christ

In what century is the year:
618 v.C.

Write it down as follows: eg. 1th century BC or 3rd century

In welke eeuw ligt het jaartal:
334

Write it down as follows: eg. 1th century BC or 3rd century

In what century is the year:
1830

Write it down as follows: eg. 1th century BC or 3rd century

In what century is the year:
212 BC

Write it down as follows: eg. 1th century BC or 3rd century

In what century is the year:
18

Write it down as follows: eg. 1th century BC or 3rd century

In what century is the year:
1918 BC.

Write it down as follows: eg. 1th century BC or 3rd century

1914-1918

1939-1945

212-200

100-44

492-379

1400-1200

 AD 

BC

What have you learned?

Write down 3 things you have learned this leson.

What is still difficult for you?