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What is a society?

A community of people who share a common culture

What kinds of primary and secondary sources could provide clues about a society's religious beliefs?

A primary source can provide someone who witnessed the event. It can provide treaties, court records, laws, diaries, letters, and audios or videos are all examples of primary sources. A secondary source is someone who did not take part in or witnessed an event. An examples of secondary sources are textbooks and encyclopedias.

How is a primary source different than a secondary source?

A primary source is an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed an event. A secondary source is info gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.

What more could an archaeologist learn from studying a group's material culture than from studying an artifact?

Although individual artifacts can give us useful clues, more useful are groups of artifacts as group's material culture.

Which of the following from your study of humans' earliest times in Grade 6 is an example of a fossil.

the bones of a prehistoric animal

What is history?

the study of the past

What is archaeology?

the study of the past based on materials that people left behind

What is social structure?

the way in which a society is organized

The source that would be least likely to provide info about a group's religious beliefs is

their farming tools

Which statement best describes the relationship of legends to history?

Legends can sometimes guide historians to new discoveries

How do legends help historians?

Stories and legends can point scholars toward discoveries and they can use the legends as guides to help find new discoveries.

An example of a primary source is a ____________

Textbook

What two types of scholars gather clues to study the past?

The two types of scholars are historians and archaeologists.

What do changing perceptions about our society today affect history?

They can affect our society by rethinking the time, place, and cultures.

Why might different historians might draw different conclusions about a culture's social structure?

They might draw different conclusions because they might see different things, for example, a piece of art.

Can views history of change?

Yes, if evidence is found

What is a fossil?

a part or imprint of something that was once alive

In your study of ancient history last year, you read from many different sources. All of the following were primary sources except

a quote from Homer's poem the odyssey

The study of the past based on materials that people have left behind is ___________

archaeology

jewelry, tools, toys, clothing, and broken dishes may be an example of ___________

artifacts

If a historian studies how two events are connected, he may be studying the __________ that one event had on the other

effect

A tooth from an ancient human skeleton is a __________

fossil

______ is the study of the past.

history

What is a artifact?

objects created and used by humans

The tablet with ancient writing is a

primary source

A magazine article about an event that happened 100 years ago would be considered a _____________

secondary source