PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMIC HISTORY STANDARDS
VOCABULARY TEST

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1. Any object made by human work or skill.

2. A demarcation of time designating studies to commence with the written historical record.

3. The primary concern from which other problems or matters are derived. For example, today’s world migration flows are a central issue from which other concerns such as terrorist threats may arise.

4. The science of measuring time and of dating events. Examples include BCE (before the common era) and CE (common era). Another reference to time is CA, around the time, circa.

5. The opposition of persons or groups that gives rise to dramatic action. Such actions could include the use of force as in combat.

6. The skills and arts of a given people in a given period of time or a civilization.

7. Anything written or printed used to record or prove something.

8. Something that makes something else noticeable, obvious or evident.

9. An article or section of a longer work that has importance to the past.

10. The introduction of something new; an idea, method or device.

11. Explanation, or to reply to a situation in order to make sense of it (e.g., a time period, an individual’s actions).

12. An object or ceremony serving as a remembrance for a person, group, day, site or event.

13. An historical display in a building, room, etc. for exhibiting artistic, historical or scientific objects.

14. A demarcation of time designating studies to the current year.

15. A belief based not on certainty but on what seems to be true or probable.

16. A work stoppage by employees organized against the management of a business entity.

17. Measures of a period during which something exists or happens; usually displayed in chronological order on a graph or linear lines.

18. A conflict in which two or more nations, or two or more identities inside a nation, are at odds.

19. An intense fear or dislike of groups unknown or not within one's experience including the group’s

20. The study of man's past.