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A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe.
Renaissance
Humanism
arts
patron
What does "prosperous" mean?
(a)
What do archaeologists often do in their laboratories? Select all that apply.
Paint or make copies of artifacts
Take pictures of artifacts
Measure or fix artifacts
Write notes about excavations and artifacts
The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar. One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome.
Shakespeare
Michelangelo
Raphael
Petrarch
Which film series focuses on recreation of extinct species?
Fantastic Beasts
Jurassic Park
Lord of the Rings
Despicable Me
She used only contem (a) documents to research the book, not the historic ones.
Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient.
Anglo-Saxon
Greek and Latin
Anglo-Norman
Old English
An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research.
Florence
city-state
Leonardo Da Vinci
Brunelleschi
When a historian or an author deliberately mislead students in his/her textbook, he/she is committing historical ______________ .
denialism
distortion
negation
revisionism
Archaeological sites can be visible on the surface or buried deep beneath the ground.
True
False
Historical Distortion and Historical Revisionism are the same.
True
False
What cause Franklin's legs to become paralyzed?
chicken pox
yellow fever
flu
polio
When a historian an author corrects a wrong account or entry in our textbooks this is historical _______________ .
denialism
distortion
negation
revisionism
Archaeology refers to...
the study of planets
the study of things that people left behind
the study of things from the future
None of the above
What is preservation?
It is another word for 'dog'.
It is to maintain something in it's original condition.
It is the cost to enter a museum.
It is not a real word.
modern (adj)
contemporary
comfortable
connected
What are put on display at Vietnam Military History Museum?
war propganda
war weapons
war artifacts
captured aircraft
What is presentism?
Focusing too much on 20th and 21st century history
The lack of interest in history
Judging the past by modern standards
The lost of traditional customs
Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance?
Society was dominated by the church.
Society began to value individualism.
Society was focused on warfare.
Society was dominated by lords.
When did aurochs become extinct?
500BC
1600s
1800s
1200s
In archaeology a "dig" refers to...
artifacts
objects
an excavation
weapons
An archaeologist’s works begins with...
digging up
studying artifacts
finding a site to study
studying objects
Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what?
Art
Education
Math
Literature
What does dendrochronology do?
Tell us how trees provide evidence about past climate
Tell us how trees are made
Tell us how trees predict the weather
Pick the best definition for "ruins."
Evidence of a fight or battle, including weapons
To become angry and try to break things
Thoughtful or long ideas
What remains after a building or structure is destroyed
Which is incorrect about the play 'Hamilton'?
It's casting is color-bind
It's casting is color-conscious
The writer himself played the role of Hamilton
Only a few of its actors were BIPOC
What kind of artifacts do archaeologists want to find?
Hand-made things from long ago
Machine-made things used now
Things in nature from long ago
None of these things
A person whose job is to be in charge of the objects or works of art in a museum or an art gallery is a/an ...
archaeologist
curator
inhabitant
authority
society
This is how people are organized into large groups and communities.
This is the academic term for the "new stone age".
This word describes when something is done by people acting as a group.
The science/art of farming.
To search for food and materials.
A social group in a traditional society consisting of people with the same language, culture, religion, etc., living in a particular area.
population
colony
metropolis
tribe
Give one way to learn about / study history
(a)
what does 'post-mortem' mean?
before death
facial reconstruction
mortuary
after death
What are your thoughts about Archaeology?
It seems very interesting!
It sounds complicated.
It does not interest me.
None of the above
A building, column, statue, etc. built to remind people of a famous person or event is called a/ an...
monument
commemoration
artefact
metropolis
to imagine how something will be in the future
envisage
invisible
entail
The museum's collection includes ... dating back to prehistoric times.
Choose 1 word that DOESN'T fit the blank.
artefacts
exhibits
extracts
antiques
The interpretation of the past from outside the archaeological science community, which rejects the accepted data gathering and analytical methods of the discipline.
Xenoarchaeology
Astrobiology
Anomalous
Pseudoarchaeology
What do archaeologists study?
Human behavior and culture by finding and studying artifacts
Animal migration patterns and habitats
North American weather patterns to predict tornadoes, droughts, and hurricanes
Population growth patterns and cultural changes that will occur in the future
traditional buildings which have existed for a long time
contemporary
inherit
heritage
True/False: Tree ring growth varies throughout the year
True
False
How did the scientists in Jurassic Park create the dinosaurs?
blood from a mosquito preserved in ice
blood from a mosquito preserved in amber
DNA from dinosaur fossils
Hatching a fossilised dinosaur egg
a tall piece of stone used to support the roof
column
collar
colour
The study of preserved plant evidence from archaeological sites is....
paleontology
archaeobotany
excavation
plantology
________________ is the study of the past events.
Historical change
History
Conflict
Why museums are appealing to museum-goers?
Provide informative and visual explorations
Evoke the memory of the past
Act as a testament to the evolution of humanity
Bring quality time with their loved ones
Neolithic
This word describes when something is done by people acting as a group.
The science/art of farming.
To search for food and materials.
This is how people are organized into large groups and communities.
This is the academic term for the "new stone age".
Where is Shanidar?
Iraq
Iran
Tibet
Turkey
Vietnam was .... by France for nearly a century.
surrounded
colonized
excavated
bargained
The auroch was a wild animal of which species?
(a)
Who wrote this play?
(aka the guy who casted himself)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Daveed Diggs
Anthony Ramos
Okieriete Onaodowan
Why can scientists today not recreate dinosaurs?
it's too dangerous
not enough DNA for a whole genome
they have no living relatives
cloning has been internationally banned
What do archaeologists study?
Human behavior and culture by finding and studying artifacts
Animal migration patterns and habitats
North American weather patterns to predict tornadoes, droughts, and hurricanes
Population growth patterns and cultural changes that will occur in the future
