Time
Christians based the passage of time after this event
Birth of christ
This person classified museum artifacts by material, giving rise to the idea of the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Isaac Newton used the mythical voyage of Jason and the Argonauts for the base event in his chronology
True
Thomsen organized museum artifacts by the principals that he learned from his father, who was a:
Shipowner
6:00 PM, October 24, 3963 B.C. was considered by Johannes Hevelius to be:
The date of creation
Thomsen’s successor, who was known as the first professional archaeologist
Jens Jacob Worsaae
Creation was dated to 6004 B.C.
False, it was 4004 B.C.
Originally, museums favored _____ objects over _____ objects
Beautiful, famous; crude, anonymous
Many ancient civilizations used this to reckon time
Years of the reign of their king
This person depicted the round earth on a flat surface and created a universal chronology
Gerardus Mercator
King Frederick is widely assumed to have planted polished axes among Old Stone Age artifacts as a practical joke
True
Before Thomsen’s theories, materials made of stone, bronze and iron were thought to come from different ____ rather than different time periods
Social classes
Christmas, Lady Day, and Easter were all used to:
Begin the year
This person refined Pope Hilarius’ calendar and changed the base date to the birth of Christ
Dionysus Exiguus
B.C. was accepted before A.D.
False, it was accepted several centuries later
Museums for the public arose in this century
18th century
Before the 17th “century,” the word century was used to denote:
One hundred of anything
This person concluded that the Three-Age classification was supported by Swiss artifacts as well as Danish artifacts
Ferdinand Keller
The word “tourist” was introduced in the 1600s
False, it was the 1800s
The Old Stone Age was given the more informal name of:
The Culture of Kitchen Middens