The+Social+Studies

Directions: Open the document file called the social studies. Read the text and answer the questions. When you are done email your work to Olympusglobal@gmail.com

Directions: Read each of the following documents and answer the question that follows.
 * WHY STUDY HISTORY? **


 * Document #1 **

1.According to Document #1: What is the task of the Historian? The task of the historian was to tell the facts about "how it actually happened". _

History is the story of humanity’s past. History systematically records and explains what people have thought, said, and done. History deals with political, economic and social matters...History describes humanity’s efforts to improve the world. It recounts the achievements and setbacks in the long upward climb toward a high level of civilization. 2. What does history deal with? _
 * Document #2 **

Knowledge of the past comes from many sources – from written records and also from knowledge revealed by science developed in the last century or so. New sciences of some importance to the historian are **//anthropology//,** the study of man’s physical and cultural development; **//archaeology//**, the discovery and study of things left behind by past civilizations; **//geography//**, the study of the how people are affected by their environment; **//sociology//**, the study of conditions and change in groups. Economics is the study of how money and resources affect society. Economics also studies the affects of trade and the exchange of goods.
 * Document #3 **

3. Where does knowledge of the past come from? _science.

4. Describe the difference between anthropology and archaeology. body. archaeology _