1. Events and Accounts Primary and Secondary Sources
**How do historians understand and learn about the past?**

2. What is a historic EVENT?
A historic event is something that happened in the past

3. Build The Great Pyramid The Battle of Salamis
Examples:
Build The Great Pyramid
The Battle of Salamis
Assassination of Julius Caesar
Name your own!

4. What is a historic ACCOUNT?
A historic account is a representation of an event from the past

5. Examples: Name your own! Clay tablet from Mesopotamia
Netflix show on Emperor Claudius
Papyrus scroll about Mummification
Name your own!

6. Historians use _____________ to study ______________________
historic accounts
historic events

7. What are the two types of historic accounts?

8. What are the two types of historic accounts?
Primary Source: A primary source is a firsthand account and is created at the time of the event

9. Examples:
Letters
Maps
Drawings
Clothing
Books
Photographs
Pottery

10. What are the two types of historic accounts?
Secondary Source: A secondary source is created by someone who was not present at the actual time of the event

11. Examples: Social Studies Textbook A written biography Magazine
Encyclopedia
YouTube video about life in the past
Instagram comment about an event
Movie about event in the past