History

Question 0

What is a primary source?

Answer 0

A primary sources are written or made at the time an event took place (ex. Diaries photographs pottery )

Question 1

What are historians?

Answer 1

Historians are people who study and write about the past

Question 2

What is a secondary source?

Answer 2

A secondary source is written or made by someone who didn’t witness the event. ( ex. Textbooks/ reconstructions of historical sites )

Question 3

What does AD mean?

Answer 3

Anno domini

Question 4

What does BC mean?

Answer 4

Before Christ

Question 5

What is a caricature?

Answer 5

A caricature is a persons features being exaggerated to make them look like a carton

Question 6

What are artefacts?

Answer 6

Artefacts are man made items from the past that are usually stored in a museum

Question 7

What is archeology?

Answer 7

Archeology is the study of what people have left behind them.

Question 8

What is pre-history?

Answer 8

Pre-history is a way of finding out about the earliest period of history before written records.

Question 9

What are the three different ages of pre-history?

Answer 9

Stone Age, bronze age and Iron Age

Question 10

What is stratigraphy?

Answer 10

The study of the different layers of soil

Question 11

What is aerial photography?

Answer 11

Aerial photographs are photographs taken from the air that capture thing that aren’t visible from land.

Question 12

What are all the tools needed for a dig?

Answer 12

Photographic scales, polythene bag, brush, sieve, toothbrush, trowel and handbrush

Question 13

How do archeologist date objects?

Answer 13

Archeologist use carbon-14 dating which is in all living things. When living things die they lose a bit of carbon dating a bit at a time so they can see how old are they.

Question 14

What is dendrochronology?

Answer 14

The study of tree rings.

Question 15

There was no evidence of life before 7000 BC

Answer 15

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Question 16

What did the fist settlers live in?

Answer 16

Circular huts

Question 17

What did the first settlers come in?

Answer 17

Dugout canoes or small tube like boats

Question 18

What were the circular huts covered with?

Answer 18

Animal skin or rushes

Question 19

What is the difference between Neolithic and Mesolithic farmers?

Answer 19

Mesolithic people don’t settle and Neolithic people settle

Question 20

Who had stronger tools?

Answer 20

The Neolithic

Question 21

Why did the early settlers move from place to place?

Answer 21

Because they ate all the berries and then moved on for more in different places.

Question 22

What was the frame of the hut built from?

Answer 22

Saplings which could be bent into shape easily.

Question 23

What was in the middle of the hut?

Answer 23

Hearth(fireplace)

Question 24

What were at the side of the huts?

Answer 24

Middens( heaps of kitchen waste )

Question 25

What did the Mesolithic farmers use to build there tools?

Answer 25

Small stones and pieces of Flint known as microlits

Question 26

What were there clothes made from?

Answer 26

Animal skin

Question 27

What are post-holes?

Answer 27

Post-holes are holes archeologist find in the ground from where the huts used to be and archeologist can make out the shape of the huts

Question 28

Where did the Mesolithic people first settle?

Answer 28

Mount Sandel

Question 29

What did the Mesolithic farmers believe in?

Answer 29

Afterlife

Question 30

What is a dolmen?

Answer 30

A tomb. There were 3 large stones and sand banks beside them and archeologist believe they pulled up a massive rock by using logs

Question 31

What's bronze?

Answer 31

A mixture of stone and copper

Question 32

What was death marked by?

Answer 32

Building large stone tombs known as megaliths

Question 33

How many types of tombs were there?

Answer 33

3main types

Question 34

What era was the dolmen in?

Answer 34

Stone Age

Question 35

What dos the people put in the dolmen?

Answer 35

Food poetry jewellery

Question 36

What is a court cairn build of?

Answer 36

Standing stones covered by earth

Question 37

What graves were the Bronze Age people buried in?

Answer 37

Cost graves or wedge tombs

Question 38

What are stone circles?

Answer 38

A place of worship. Surrounded by large upright stones.

Question 39

What's a fulachta fiadh?

Answer 39

A was of which they cooked their food.

Question 40

When did the celts begin to rule Ireland

Answer 40

650BC