2. According to Michael Wood, what do the material markers hide?

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According to Michael Wood common markers in material terms are virtually universal: cities, bronze technology, writing, great ceremonial buildings, temples, monumental art, hierarchies and class division, all sanctioned by some form of law, and held together by organized military force. These common material factors hide very different conceptions of what actually is civilization, the ultimate goals of organized human life on earth, moral, intellectual, political, and spiritual. He is saying that the cities, technology, buildings, and even writing do not express moral value to the people, any intellectual or political reasoning in actions, and not exactly what people spiritually believed in. I get from this that we can only infer what they thought which proves even more; that history is an interpretation because we were not there to completely know what was going on.

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