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What did the San hunter gatherers use to communicate whilst hunting?

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Hands signals

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What is the most common form of communication?

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Speaking words

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How did early humans communicate?

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With sounds to pass on simple messages, which over time became words.

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What was another way that the San used to communicate?

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Painting or scratching pictures on the walls of caves about their religion and way of life

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What was one of the forms of communication used by ancient Africans?

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History and life lessons were taught through songs, often accompanied by musical instruments.

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How did the first sailors passing through the Cape send letters to their family in Europe?

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They left letters under a special stone on Robben Island. Ships passing by on the way back to Europe picked up the letters and took them with them.

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How did the early Dutch and British settlers at the Cape get a message to someone inland?

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At first farmers and runners carried the mail inland. In 1843, the first mail coach (the Royal Mail Coach) left Cape Town for Swellendam, carrying passengers and mail.

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How does the modern postal system work?

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Senders buy a stamp or pay in advance for postage.letters or parcels are placed in a mailbox.

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Who invented the first telephone in 1876?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Why do you think Alexander Graham Bell was “lucky”?

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Another man, Elisha Grey, also invented a telephone, but Bell registered his invention a few hours before Grey.

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What did Heinrich Hertz prove?

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In 1885, he proved that electric waves travel through the air.

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Who was Marconi?

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He was an Italian teenager who was fascinated by Herz’s discovery about electric waves traveling through air. In 1895 he succeeded in using these waves to send messages through the air without wires.

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What were the problems with Marconi’s first “wireless”?

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It couldn’t be used for speech or music, but later scientists managed to improve on the design so that it could play music and people’s voices.

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What were the first photos like?

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They were difficult to develop, needing to be developed in a dark room. Photos had to be taken in a studio where the light could be controlled. Cameras were big and difficult to use.

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Which camera manufacturer helped more people to own cameras?

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Kodak

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When did the first television transmissions begin?

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Television started in the 1930s in other parts of the world, but only started in South Africa in 1976.

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What was the computer like before the introductions of the personal computer?

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They were large and only universities and big businesses had them. One computer could fill a whole room.

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What did Martin Cooper do before anyone else?

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He made the first portable cellphone call on 3 April 1973, allowing people to talk to someone else while moving around.

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Name five oldest forms of human communication?

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Language, symbols, songs, art and dance.

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When did the first postal coach leave Cape Town?

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1843

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Before the mail coach how did letters get sent inland?

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Delivered by runners and farmers

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What was the first type writer called?

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A writing piano

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Who invented the telephone?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Who was Elisha Gray?

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He also invented the telephone but arrived to register his invention a few hours after Alexander Graham Bell

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What is the post stone?

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A stone on Robben Island where sailors left letters to be collected by a passing ship and delivered to their families in Europe

26
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What does the term PC stand for?

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Personal computer

27
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Who made the first cell phone call?

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Martin Cooper in 3 April 1973

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When did television come to South Africa?

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1976

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When did the first television stations start?

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1930’s

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What are the oldest forms of communication?

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Language, symbols, songs, art and dance

31
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Define language

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A set of signs used to communicate

32
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True or False: there are ways besides speaking to use language to communicate

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True. People also use body signs called body language to communicate

33
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When did the San people use hand signals?

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When they were hunting

34
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True or false: early humans spoke as we do today

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False. They probably made sounds to pass on simple messages.

35
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True or false: language is always changing

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TRUE

36
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What is the most common form of communication?

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Speaking words

37
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True or false: stories are an important form of communication

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TRUE

38
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Give an example of an indigenous South African people who communicated through drawings and paintings.

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The San people

39
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What are engravings?

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Pictures scratched onto a surface such as a rock

40
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What sort of things did the San paint or draw?

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Animals, people hunting or gathering food, dancers

41
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What do historians think many of the San paintings were about?

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The San religion

42
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How have African people traditionally communicated their history and taught their children important lessons?

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Through songs

43
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What was communicated through traditional African songs?

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Their history, important lessons for children, things happening in the local area at the time and how they felt about their lives

44
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True or false: traditionally older and younger Xhosa woman used different instruments to accompany their songs

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True. The uhadi was played by older women and the umrhube by younger women

45
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Why do the Shona people use instruments in the bira ceremony?

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To communicate with their ancestors. They use the mbira. In this ceremony the ancestors talk back to the people through dancers and singers

46
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List some different ways of communicating?

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Letters, email, Internet, speaking, cell phone, text messages

47
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Why do people not post letters so often anymore?

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There are faster ways to communicate these days like email or phone. Letters take a long time to travel from one place to another

48
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What was the mail coach and who started it?

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The Dutch and British settlers in the Cape started the mail coach. It was a coach that carried letters/messages and parcels In a large box at the front of the coach to people inland. It also carried passengers.

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Why was the first typewriter called a writing piano?

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It looked like a piano with black and white keys

50
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True or false: the typewriter helped speed up communication

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TRUE

51
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What is a QWERTY keyboard?

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A keyboard with the letters that are commonly used together split up. The first five letters of the top row from left to right are Q, W, E, R, T and Y

52
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Why was the qwerty keyboard necessary?

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Because otherwise the keys on the typewriter keyboard kept getting jammed when typing

53
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What is a telegraph?

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A machine that allows messages to be sent in Morse code along an electrical wire

54
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What is Morse code?

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A language that uses short and long signals. Short signals are called dots and long signals are called dashes

55
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What do dots and dashes in Morse code stand for?

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Letters of the alphabet

56
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When was The telegraph machine invented?

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In the 1830’s

57
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Why is the telephone an important invention?

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Communicate instantly across big distances, get messages to people quickly etc

58
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How are modern telephones different to the first telephone?

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They are smaller, you can dial the person you want to speak to directly

59
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When was the first radio built?

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1895

60
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When was the Kodak company founded?

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1888

61
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When did Bell invent the telephone?

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1876

62
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Who experimented with wireless networking to help develop what has today become known as the internet and world wide web?

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Bill Joy

History Grade 4 Team (5 decks)

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