Ancient Civilization-1
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- Difine History
- the story of people, how they came into exsistence, and why
- List three examples of the type of "records" ancient peoples left behind
- Chisled into stone, baked on clay tablets, written on partchment
- List two functions of history
- Reflects present experiences, reveals the life and culture of the past
- Define Culture
- It means "care for" in Laten. Traditions passed down
- Explain how people try to control their eviornment and provide an example for each
- 1 Changing adapting to it- irragatinga desert area. 2 Use materials to physical enviornment to develop culture use avalible materials
- What is the basic unit of organization in any culture
- Family
- Define Civilization
- When a culture expands from villages and cummunities into more complete social and political cities
- List characteristics of civilization
- Large, Religion, Language, an writting
- Define Archaeology
- The scientific study of the remains of relics, artifacts, lost cities to learn aboutthe way people lived
- Define Athropology
- The study of physical character, enviornment, social relations, culture of the people
- Which science is older and what is a necessary part of both
- Archaeology tells us about the past
- Define Finds/Findings and a tell
- Find- discoveries made archaeological sites. Tell- Flat topped hill/ mound covered in debri covered ruins of ancient cities
- Where will you find the oldest objects or relics in a tell
- On the bottom layer of the tell
- Define excavation
- Undercover ruins of ancient cities
- Described two major methods archaeologists use to excavate. Which method is best and why
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1. Remove one layer of remains at a time so they can
study the complete civilization before getting to the next level.
2. Trench cut damages previous layers. Number one is the best.