Abeka 6th Grade History Test 1 – New World History and Geography Practice

An artifact is an object made or altered by people that tells us about life in the past. Things like tools, pottery, coins, clothing, and weapons survive from earlier times and let historians and archaeologists learn how people lived, worked, and traded. The key idea is that artifacts are human-made items that carry clues about past cultures and daily life.

That’s why this choice fits best: it describes a human-made object that provides information about the past. A modern artwork is also human-made, but it isn’t the kind of evidence we study to learn about earlier civilizations. A natural rock formation isn’t made by people, so it doesn’t reveal past human practices. A law is a rule, not a physical object used to study historical daily life.