Mr. Dorrough’s History Class

In class today we did the Preview activity for chapter 26 as a warm up.

We them did the Pre-Reading questions for chapter 26.

For Home Work i assigned essential questions 2 and 3.

Pre-Reading Questions

Remember, I am offering 24 points of extra credit for anyone who attends Patent/Teacher Conference on Thursday 24 April 2008.  24 points is the equivalent of 6 assignments!

This week we are going to study one more Mesoamerican civilization, The Inca.

In class today we read 26.1 and 26.2 as a warm up.

We Then worked on the key terms for chapter 26.

Fr Home Work i assigned essential question #1.

Downloads for class today.
Chapter Twenty Six Standards Guide: The Incas

Picture Dictionary

Budget Vocabulary Matrix

How do we know about the Maya, Aztec, and Inca?

We know what we do because of the careful work of anthropologists and archaeologists.  The best known archaeologist is Indiana Jones, but he is not a real person nor does he practice archeology the way modern archaeologists do.

An anthropologist studies people and their culture.  They observe people and how they live by watching them through their daily routines.  If they are studying the  past they put the pieces of evidence that they can find together to determine how they lived.  Basically, they use everything around them to study a group people.  They do not always work in the field.  They can and often do most of their work in libraries and museums.

An archaeologist is a specific type of anthropologist.  Thy studys the past through  carefully excavation and examination of the physical remains of a society.  They study both buildings and bodies.  They have carefully established rules on how to dig up old cities and grave sites.  They use scientific equipment and simple brushes to get what they want.