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What is a primary source?

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

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What are historians?

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Historians are people who study and write about the past

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What is a secondary source?

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

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What does AD mean?

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Anno domini

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What does BC mean?

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Before Christ

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What is a caricature?

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

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What are artefacts?

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

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What is archeology?

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

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What is pre-history?

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

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What are the three different ages of pre-history?

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Stone Age, bronze age and Iron Age

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What is stratigraphy?

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The study of the different layers of soil

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What is aerial photography?

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

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What are all the tools needed for a dig?

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

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How do archeologist date objects?

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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.

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What is dendrochronology?

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The study of tree rings.

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There was no evidence of life before 7000 BC

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What did the fist settlers live in?

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Circular huts

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What did the first settlers come in?

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Dugout canoes or small tube like boats

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What were the circular huts covered with?

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Animal skin or rushes

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What is the difference between Neolithic and Mesolithic farmers?

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Mesolithic people don’t settle and Neolithic people settle

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Who had stronger tools?

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The Neolithic

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Why did the early settlers move from place to place?

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

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What was the frame of the hut built from?

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Saplings which could be bent into shape easily.

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What was in the middle of the hut?

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Hearth(fireplace)

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What were at the side of the huts?

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Middens( heaps of kitchen waste )

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What did the Mesolithic farmers use to build there tools?

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Small stones and pieces of Flint known as microlits

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What were there clothes made from?

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Animal skin

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What are post-holes?

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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

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Where did the Mesolithic people first settle?

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Mount Sandel

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What did the Mesolithic farmers believe in?

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Afterlife

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What is a dolmen?

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

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What’s bronze?

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A mixture of stone and copper

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What was death marked by?

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Building large stone tombs known as megaliths

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How many types of tombs were there?

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3main types

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What era was the dolmen in?

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Stone Age

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What dos the people put in the dolmen?

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Food poetry jewellery

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What is a court cairn build of?

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Standing stones covered by earth

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What graves were the Bronze Age people buried in?

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Cost graves or wedge tombs

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What are stone circles?

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A place of worship. Surrounded by large upright stones.

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What’s a fulachta fiadh?

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A was of which they cooked their food.

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When did the celts begin to rule Ireland

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650BC

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