Century – 100 years.

Year – 365 days.                                               

Past – Something that has already happened.

Present – Right now!

Future – Something that hasn’t happened yet.

Picture – A drawing, photograph or piece of art.

Photograph – Taken using a camera.

Civilisation: A civilization is a large group of people who share certain advanced ways of living and working.

Evidence: something that gives proof or a reason to believe.

Ancient: belonging to the distant past, especially to the period in history before the end of the Roman Empire.

BCE (before common era) a year before the birth of Jesus Christ.

CE (common era) any year after Year 1.

AD: Refers to a year that comes after the death of Jesus Christ.

Represent: to present a picture, image, or likeness of something

Hieroglyphics: a writing system that uses pictures and symbols instead of letters and words.

Culture – the ides, customs and social behaviour of a society.

Effectiveness - the quality of working well and producing results that were intended.

Excavate – remove earth carefully from (an area) in order to find buried remains.

Legacy – something that is handed down from one period of time to another.

Significance – a decision that modern people make about what is important from our past.

Source – Something that gives information about an event.

Artefact – An item that is from the past. It can give us information about what life was like then.

LKS2 Geography focus this term 

KS1 Geography focus this term 

Democracy – a system of government where people have a say in how the government is run.

Settlement – a place where people live and sometimes work.

Invasion – the movement of an army into a region in an attempt to take control of it or to steal goods from it.

Colosseum – a huge, open-air amphitheatre, or arena, built in Rome as a gift to the people for entertainment and sport.

Empire – an extensive group of countries, or states, ruled over by a single monarch or emperor.

Revolt – to rise up and fight against the government or other authority.

Historical Enquiry – developing knowledge and understanding by posing questions about the past, analysing and evaluating sources as evidence to develop an informed interpretation.

Racial: relating to the major groupings into which humankind is sometimes divided on the basis of physical characteristics or shared ancestry.

Diverse: including representatives from more than one social, cultural, or economic group, especially members of ethnic or religious minority groups.

Analyse: to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify causes, key factors, possible results.

Justify: to defend or uphold as warranted or well-grounded.

Propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

Bias: a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned.

Blitz: an intensive aerial bombing.

Evacuate: to remove persons from (a city, town, building, area, etc.) for reasons of safety.

Morale: emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.

Allies: the 26 nations that fought against the Axis in World War II and, with subsequent additions, signed the charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.

Emigrate: to leave one country or region to settle in another.

Axis power: Germany, Italy, and Japan, which were allied before and during World War II. 

Immigration: to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.