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SS 6
Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| historians | people that study the history of the past |
| what do historians study | details of daily life or events that have changed the world |
| what did the people of Central America enjoy | bubble gum hundreds of years ago |
| what brought huge changes to the people in Central America | wars |
| what do historians use to discover what life was like in the past | sources from books to bones |
| what is a historians most important tool | sources |
| what is an example of an artifact | an old camera, old TV, old car, big scrapbook with newspaper clippings, magazines |
| how do people remember the past | describing the past by using oral tradition |
| how was history kept alive before writing was invented | oral tradition |
| what are examples of primary sources | written things, such as magazine articles and advertisements or non-written things such as toys, tools or pictures, book written by a person about their life |
| what is an example of a secondary source | a book written about life in the past, a study of life in the past |
| what do historians disagree about | how sources should be interpreted or how life in the past should be remembered |
| what can a different historians viewpoints do | construct different pictures of the same historical period |
| why is it difficult for historians to reconstruct the past | the further back in time something happened the harder their job is, many important sources from the past have been destroyed or lost |
| where is a good place for you to find primary and secondary sources | library |
| why are written sources important to historians | they can speak for people and things from another time |
| who do historian work with | scientists |
| what is history | study of what happened in the past |
| how was history passed down before writing | oral tradition, word of mouth |
| what are artifacts | objects made in the past can tell how people lived |
| what do historians use | primary and secondary sources to interpret what life was like in the past |
| what shapes the way the past is remembered | the sources historians use, the way they use sources and their points of view |
| what do historians make decisions about | which sources to study and how to interpret those sources |
| what was one of the most thrilling historical studies | the search for the ancient city of Troy |
| what historian searched for the city of Troy | Heinrich Schlieman |
| What are the legends of Troy | great walled city where heroic warriors long ago had fought fierce and bloody battles. |
| what do archaeologist do | excavate historical sites, discover, identify and save remains |
| why do they take x-rays | to see inside object and how it was made |
| what do the test show | age of the artifact |
| what do archeologist link | different clues to figure out what artifacts and remains might say about how people lived in past cultures |
| what do the Alps contain | dozens of snow-covered peaks and massive slabs of ice called glaciers |
| what was found in the Alps | the Iceman |
| what was found near the Iceman | a knife, bits of rope and leather, an ax, hunting arrows, small net, small leather pouch |
| what was different about the ax | it looked hundreds of years old, the metal blade was lashed to a wooden handle with strips of leather |
| who was the German archeologist that investigated the Iceman | Konrad Spindler |
| what did Konrad estimate and how | his age by observing that the ax was made of copper and his knife-blade of chipped stone, nearly 4000 years old |
| what did detailed testing prove | that the Iceman was 5300 years old, a prehistoric man |
| what was interesting about finding the Iceman | he was found with the tools he used everyday |
| what else did archeologist find near Iceman | flecks of wheat, pollen or plant dust |
| what did finding wheat near the iceman mean | that he had contact with a village where grain was grown |
| what did finding pollen near the Iceman mean | the grains came from alder and pine trees therefore, he probably died in the Autumn |
| what was the Icemans net for | to catch birds |
| what was in the Icemans leather pouch | small blades and a bone needle to repair equipment, black fungus |
| what was the black fungus for | sulfur and iron crystals attached to fungus, like matches used to start fire |
| why did the Iceman have Birch fungus | to help fight disease |
| what did the artifacts found near the Iceman tell about | life in prehistoric Europe, his survival skills |
| why was the Iceman in good enough condition to examine | because he was encased and preserved by glacier ice |
| why do archeologist conclude that people that lived 5000 years ago where experts at interacting with their environment | because 17 different kinds of trees and 8 different kinds of animals were used to make the Iceman's belongings |
| why where people living 5000 yrs ago skilled metalworkers | because they shaped copper into tools |
| why did archeologist believe the Iceman had contact with farmers | from the different grains |
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