Week #2- Daily #3- Which do you think is a better roadmap of history artifacts of the humanities (art, music, dance, theatre, literature, philosophy, architecture, etc) or political/military conflicts? Why?

I think that artifacts of the humanities are a better roadmap of history. Political and military conflicts are based on the government, while artifacts are based on the whole culture. Art, music, dance, theatre, literature, philosophy, and architecture can also contain information from political and military conflicts. They can also be based off of these conflicts. The world keeps changing, but I still think that the basic artifacts of a culture are a better roadmap of history because we have proof of how they lived. The people that we learned about in class that wrote in caves told us a lot about their culture. We also found a doll called the Venus of Willendorf that led us to come to many conclusions. I think that the fact that we can actually see the remains of this civilized culture can give us more information than conflicts in war because we probably will never know who their government officials were or if they even had any. The world was very different back then. There could have been just a group of people with no authority whatsoever. We do not really know, so it is better to use what is already given to us. We can find out how old artifacts are with the technology that we own today, so it can give us dates to work with on finding out who the people were. It seems like we could only track down the political and military conflicts through the artifacts. I hope that my generation can solve many mysteries from the past.