FILM QUESTIONS 1-2

Question 1

What is the significance of Windmill Hill? (2points)

Answer 1

• earliest example of people settling in and open space
• evidence of early farming communities

Question 2

How was Silbury Hill created? (1point)

Answer 2

• created over 150 years by people who came with baskets of earth/other materials they would place on the hill

Question 3

Why was Silbury Hill built? (2 point)

Answer 3

• might be a ceremonial monument to mark the point of a nearby spring source
• could have been worshipping tje source of the sacred river thames

Question 4

When did the people become interred at West Kennet Long Barrow?

Answer 4

around 3600 BCE

Question 5

How many people were needed to move the sarsen stones?

Answer 5

• extremely heavy stones so most likely 1,000 people or more

Question 6

What is the significance of Adam’s Grave?

Answer 6

believed to be in the middle of the duke leyline, connected the ancient sites together

Question 7

What caused the crop circles?

Answer 7

made by humans

Question 8

What are the Durrington Walls? (3 points)

Answer 8

• site of a large settlement
• remains of many houses and found it could suppoer up to 5,000 people
• believed to be the place people stayed while stonehenge was being built

Question 9

When did feasting at Durrington Walls occur?

Answer 9

• on the shortest day of each year

Question 10

What is the significance of Stonehenge?

Answer 10

• it’s aligned for the mid winter sunset
• idea was to arrive just as the light was fading which would complete the ritual between life and death

Question 11

What are the criteria for being a wonder of the world? (3 points)

Answer 11

• determined by the innovativeness
• ingenuity of design
• towering/built at an over the top scale

Question 12

What message did Egypt’s rulers want to send by building the Pharos?

Answer 12

• rulers wanted to showcase how powerful the city was

Question 13

What makes Dr. Isabelle Hairy’s job of reconstructing the Pharos lighthouse harder?

Answer 13

• many varying accounts from people in the past of what the pharos looked like so it was hard to find out what the true design was.

Question 14

What is an important clue the mosque at the Qaitbay Fort provides for Dr. Hairy (3 points)

Answer 14

• 3 levels, a square main towr, octagonal second tower and a circular tower on top of that
• build 42 years after the ruins of pharos were last visible,
• theorized it might have paid honor to it

Question 15

How does the archaeology team determine the dimensions of the Pharos?

Answer 15

• Al-Balawi wrote that the lighthouse was 300 cubits high
• Ibn Battuta wrote that it was 10 spans thick
• reconstructed door frame of the pharos team revealed the thickness of the exterior wall which meant 10 spans = 6’10”
• entire building was 330 feet tall

Question 16

What drove Ancient Egyptian civilization? (2 points)

Answer 16

• the nile had a seasonal flood that brought rich black mineral mud and deposited which made the fields fertile and so farmers would settle on the riverbanks

Question 17

What is the importance of the Abydos boats?

Answer 17

• crafted with wooden planks and stitched together
• seemed to be intended for the pharoaoh in the afterlife to safely cross over into the afterlife

Question 18

What is the connection between the ancient ruins and the Abydos boats?

Answer 18

• the ruins were a religious space where egypts first kings were worshiped
• ceremonies that held up the king as a divine figure and boats were a religious expression
• mud brick casing and covered in a layer of white plaster on top that completely enclosed each boat, from a distance they would have caught the suns light and appeared to be glowing

Question 19

What is discovered under the sand using magnetometry survey?

Answer 19

walls from 10 royal tombs

Question 20

Why was the entrance to the gorge at Abydos considered ‘Gateway of the Afterlife’

Answer 20

• considered the road that led to the afterlife
• the sun set in the west where all the dead laid so it was where the other world was and what the canyon led to

Question 21

What is the importance of Fort Buhen?

Answer 21

• designed to intimidate/be imposing
• displayed military architecture so advanced to show that a raid would be useless
• complex of silos for storying precious grain for trading for gold
• served to guard trade routes so that egypt could control and protect trade routes