11-12 Ancient History Key Terms Revision

Which of these best defines archaeology?

• Treasure hunting for artefacts
• The 'branch' of history that finds, excavates, catalogues, investigates and preserves artefacts with many types of specialists involved.
• A focus on written sources
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An artefact is...

• Any object from the past
• The physical remains of pre-history
• Something from the past that has been made or changed by humans thus it provides evidence of past human activities
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Which of these is NOT an  artefact  AND why?

• dinosaur bones because they  have been made by humans
• dinosaur bones because they were not made or changed by humans
• Mount Vesuvius because it is a volcano that has preserved the ancient city of Pompeii
• Pottery from the past because they were made or changed by humans.

Who or what is the 'Three (3) Age System'?

• Explanations of human development according to age e.g. infant/child and adult.
• Human evolution through time expressed as an 'age' according to the main materials used for tools e.g. wood/stone and metal
• A way to date artefacts according to their type using the logic of an evolution of materials used by humans for tools: Stone Age/Bronze Age and Iron Age.
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A century is ...  (choose the correct definition that also includes an accurate example)

• 100 years and always begins with the '1' year and ends with the '100' year e.g. AD 101 to 200 is the 2nd Century AD.
• 100 years and always begins with the '0' years and ends with the 99 year hence 101 BC belongs to the first Century BC
• 100 years and always begins with the '1' year and ends with the '100' year e.g. AD 101 to 200 is the 2nd Century AD.
• 100 years and always begins with the '1' year and ends with the '100' year e.g. AD 101 to 200 is the 1st Century AD.

Pre-history is...

• The time after writing
• The time when dinosaurs roamed the earth
• all of the time before there was any writing system used by humans
• when humans were at the 'cave man' stage

Anthropology is...

• study of artefacts
• the study of human societies and cultures and their development/ the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.
• all of these answers
• none of these answers

Which of the following would be the work of an archaeologists?

• Locate a suitable site to dig for artefacts
• catalogue and investigate artefacts through a specialty such as knowing how to read hieroglyphics or expertise in pottery etc.
• lots of boring careful digging to find artefacts using tools such as a trowel and brush
• all of these and more

Which of these artefacts was the key to breaking the code to read hieroglyphics and how was it done?

• The Antikythera Device because it was an ancient analogue computer that contained a dictionary of hieroglyphics  
• The Rosetta Stone because it contained 3 languages (2 of which were known and said the same thing hence it was able to be used to decipher the hieroglyphics.
• Cave paintings at Lascaux which contained the prototype of hieroglyphics.
• The cipher came to an archaeologist in a vision/dream.

Which of the following does NOT belong to the 8th Century BC?

• 8000
• 800
• 701
• 752