See you next time!

That's it for this lesson!

Everything we've learned here is what you'd call a historical description, but we've focused specifically on describing art & technology.

This kind of historical description:

  • Locates technologies and arts in time and space
  • Describes physical features as well as details about how people used them
  • Explains meaning and significance
  • Can be used to describe specific artifacts or technologies in general
  • Can sometimes use a compositional or step-by-step structure

As you might have noticed, people create art & technology, but art & technology also create people!

If you're reading anything about history, stop and see if you can find a section that is a pure descriptive report as we've practised here.

  • Some texts, like encyclopedia entries, might be entirely composed of a report.
  • More complex texts might embed reports within the text as needed.

Pop quiz!

Before we go, one last test of your knowledge.

A Roman offers you his tersorium. What do you do?

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What do you do!?

See you next time!