2. Brehistory

Question 1

Date the Paleolithic
(Old Strone Age)

Answer 1

Paleolithic
700,000-9,000 BC

Question 2

Date the Mesolithic
(Middle Stone Age)

Answer 2

Mesolithic
9,000-4,000 BC

Question 3

Date the Neolithic (New Stone Age)

Answer 3

Neolithic
4200-2000 BC

Question 4

Date the Bell Beaker Folk
(Bronze Age)

Answer 4

Bell Beaker Folk (Bronze Age)
2500-700 BC

Question 5

In which Stone Age (-lithic) are the British Isles & the continent a single land mass?

Answer 5

PALEOLITHIC (Old Stone Age)

Question 6

The end of the last ice age

Answer 6

10,000 BC
(Paleolithic -old stone age)

Question 7

Tools of people in the Paleolithic:

Answer 7

They were hunter gatherers:
flint tools, handaxes, microliths

Question 8

When did the population of the British Isles become permanent?

Answer 8

With the warming of the climate (Mesolithic -middle stone age)

Question 9

Important Mesolithic sites (name 3):

Answer 9

Robin hood cave horse,
Star Carr,,
Cheddar Man

Question 10

What was the Robin Hood Cave Horse?

Answer 10

A horse rib bone inscribed with a horse (oldest portable piece of art in Britain) -10,500 BC

Question 11

Neolithic ritual landscapes:

Answer 11

-Wessec (Wiltshire)
-Orkney
-Boyne Valley, Ireland

Question 12

Neolithic structures (name 7)

Answer 12

Tracks, settlements, megalithic tombs, henges, stone circles, alignments, menhirs

Question 13

Tracks of Neolithic Britain:

Answer 13

The Sweet Track,
The Ridgeway

Question 14

Neolithic settlements:

Answer 14

-Knap of Howar, Orkney (oldest preserved stone house)
-Skara Brae, Orkney (most complete village)

Question 15

Name 3 henges (stonecircles?):

Answer 15

-Stonehenge (best preserved)
-Avebury, Wiltshire (largest)
-Ring of Brodgar, Orkney

Question 16

Round barrows
(BRONZE AGE)

Answer 16

For elite ingle individual burials with possessions

Question 17

Define the bronze age:

Answer 17

2500-700 BC (Bronze Age)
-Bell Beaker Folk, copper and tin, beaker pots,permanent villages, social elites

Question 18

How were the Celts called?

Answer 18

Greek: Keltoi
Latin: Galli

Question 19

Four ancient Irish provinces:

Answer 19

-Ulster
-Leinster
-Munster
-Connacht

Question 20

Hierarchy of celtic societies:

Answer 20

1. tribal chieftains
2. nobles
3. free farmers, merchants, craftsmen
4. slaves

Question 21

Who were the Celt’s nobles? (name specific groups)

Answer 21

warriors, druids, vates (seers), brehons (judges), bards

Question 22

Holy things/plants for Celts:

Answer 22

oaks, mistletoes, water, salmon, bulls, deer, boars, bears, human heads

Question 23

Race of Irish gods

Answer 23

Tuatha De Danann

Question 24

First ruler of the Isle of Man

Answer 24

Manannan Mac Lir

Question 25

Celtic structures (buildings etc):

Answer 25

-hill forts
-oppida
-ring forts
-brochs
-crannogs