history term 3 Flashcards
3 main words historians use to help an investigation
people, events, society
7 themes of humanity
Geographic
Cultural
Social
Economic
Military
Political
Technology
places and stuff you can use for investigation
Significant Locations
Collections of Artifacts
Collaboration
Online or Physical Archives
histroical evidence can be
anything
arechology is-
the study of old and new materials and things of someones past
Law of Superposition:
a way that scientists use to determine the approximate ages of rock strata, or layers.
Strata & Stratigraphy
the arrangement of rocks in layers or strata.
chronological order
The years signify the time order from the oldest event to the newest event.
** JUST REMBER THIS:**
THERE IS NO YEAR 0
Megaliths:
are important statues and artworks in prehistoric time ( stonehedge )
for answering question the three things you will need is:
claim, evidence, analysis
Experimental Archaeology:
the study of recreating or estimating what happened in the past
Anthropologists
study the chartecteristics of different cultures and groups formed in the past
Linguists
a person skilled in foreign languages so they can read and talk it
relative dating
the process of determining if one rock or geologic event is older or younger than another