Pre-AP World History
Miss McDonald
Name: ___________________
Date: __________ Block: ____
What Can We Learn from an Artifact?
Artifact
Feature
Example:
Year 2002 inscribed
What can you learn about our society from this feature?
 Year the artifact was created
 How the society measures time (in C.E. years)
What Can We Learn from an Artifact?
Artifact
Feature
Example:
Year 2002 inscribed
Lincoln Head
What can you learn about our society from this feature?
 Year the artifact was created
 How the society measures time (in C.E. years)
Ruler, God?, important person
In god we trust
Religion
Engraved
Machinery
Copper
Access to copper and ability to mine the copper
Lincoln Memorial
Infrastructure, ability to create grand buildings, purpose of building?,
memorialize buildings
Coin has two languages—English and Latin
Out of many, one
Value of the society
Latin:
E pluribus unum
Liberty
United States of
America
One Cent
Civilization name, or name of building?
Currency, not bartering for trade; Monetary denomination