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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the story, Digging up the Past mainly about?
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How an accidental discovery became a historic search
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Name 2 characters in, Digging up the Past
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Mrs. Shea, Damien, Joe
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What do the boys in, Digging up the Past find?
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A sheep’s jawbone
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Why is a jawbone not an artifact?
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It is not man-made
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According to Mrs. Shea, what is the first step in archaeology?
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Asking the right questions
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Name the main character in, The Search for Early Americans
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Richard Wetherill
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What did Wetherill Find underneath the Basket at Grand Gulch?
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A mummy
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How did the baron tell the age of the spruce tree?
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He cut it down and counted the rings
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What made Richard think that the people of Chaco Canyon traveled to distance places?
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He found turquoise, abalone, and parrot feathers
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The Search for Early Americans is mostly about?
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Discoveries that helped us know more about Native Americans
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The Search for Early Americans is mostly about?
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Discoveries that helped us know more about Native Americans
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What kind of creature id the Minotaur?
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Half Bull and half man
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How did Sir Arthur become interested in Crete?
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He bought his wife some moonstones that had had Cretian writing on them
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What made Evan think that bulls played an important part in the culture of the ancient Minoans?
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Pictures of bulls showed up on vases and other objects and in paintings
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What 2 types of genre is a part of The Island of the Bulls?
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Myth and non-fiction
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Scholars believe the Minoan city was destroyed by what in The Island of the Bulls?
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A volcanic explosion
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What did Greek scholars in Egypt think hieroglyphs were?
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A kind of picture writing
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Why didn’t Egyptians know the meaning of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone?
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The language had not been used for many centuries
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What kind of writing was on the Rosetta Stone?
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Demotic hieroglyphs
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What is an inscription?
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Something that is written or carved on a surface
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Why were the French in Egypt in the 1700’s?
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Napoleon invaded and brought scientists/scholars to study the history and culture
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What does Hatshepsut want to prove to the Egypt and the rest of the world?
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A woman can rule like a man
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Queen Hatshepsut was written from the point of view of:
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The Queen
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What does the Queen think about the palaces expenses?
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They are way to high and need to be cut down
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Is His Majesty Queen Hatshepsut a fiction
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or non-fiction story?
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Why were the priests resentful towards the Queen?
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They thought a woman shouldn’t be ruler and she participated in rituals for a man.
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What two empires were linked by trade in The Silk Route?
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China and Rome
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What was the main idea in The Silk Route?
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The route was an important trade route long ago
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What purpose did the silk route serve other that for trade?
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The trails were sometimes used by invading armies
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What is a caravan and what could happen to them while on a journey?
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A caravan is a group fog people traveling together for safety. They can be attacked/killed by nomads for goods along a journey
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