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What does the M stand for in OMACPRU?

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The M stands for Motive

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What does the A stand for in OMACPRU?

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The A stands for Audience

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What does the C stand for in OMACPRU?

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The C stands for Content

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What does the P stand for in OMACPRU?

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The P stands for Perspective

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What does the R stand for in OMACPRU?

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The R stands for Reliability

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What does the U stand for in OMACPRU?

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The U stands for usefulness

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What does the O stand for in OMACPRU?

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The O stands Origin

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What’s a primary source?

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A primary source is a source that is created in the time provided

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What’s a secondary source?

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A secondary source is a reconstruction of the past by people living at a later time

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What does an Archeologist do?

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An Archeologist is a person who investigates the past by digging up objects from the ground.

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What does an Anthropologist study?

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An Anthropologist study’s human development, including human behaviour, physical, social and cultural development.

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What does a Cryptographer study?

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A Cryptographer study’s codes and writing systems

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What does a scientific expert study?

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A scientific expert study’s the sciences and scientific methods to provide evidence about such things as artefacts or human remains.

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What does a linguist study?

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A linguist study’s the nature and structure of language

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What does a Palaeontologist study?

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A palaeontologist study’s plant and animal fossils

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What’s a Hypothesis?

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A Hypothesis is a theory.

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What does cremated mean?

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To burn a dead body so that it is reduced to ash.

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What does thermoluminescence mean?

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It involves scientists heating objects.

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What does stratigraphy mean?

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It helps them work out how an archeologist site has changed.

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What does a hunter-forager mean?

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People who live by hunting animals

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What does civilisation mean?

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A society that has developed towns and has a complex forms of art,science,religion and government

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What is a megafauna?

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They are extinct species of large animals (from mega meaning huge or great)

23
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What does radio carbon mean?

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It relies on the fact that all living things absorb carbon.

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What does DNA analysis mean?

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It means it’s useful for solving mysteries from history

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What is a source?

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Written or non-written items that can provide information the past

26
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What does experimental archeology mean?

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Sometimes archeologists used experimental archeology to test how something was created

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What does the term dynasty mean?

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Period of time during which one family controls government.

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List the features in the Shang dynasty?

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Script similar to modern Chinese
Left written record on oracle bones
Oracle bones provided information on farming,hunting,fishing,religious customs and warfare
Produced huge quantaties of bronze

29
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What is the Mandate of Heaven ?

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Mandate of Heaven is the Idea that the leader can rule for as long as the gods judged his every action.

30
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What is feudalism and who introduced it?

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Feudalism is the idea that the leaders give land to local leaders( nobles) who promised to provide armies, animals,grains and farm labour.
Shang dynasty introduced it.

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What was the warring of the states?

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The warring state period happened because the nobels tried to gain power and it lead up to 150 different states fighting one another and only 7 remaind. Qin Shi huangdi won and became the FIRST emperor of China because of his ruthless fighting techniques and beheading his enemies.

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What did Qin Shi Huangdi do to secure his power?

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Qin Shi Huangdi secured his power by keeping his enemies close by making a capital city and keeping all of his enemies close together, he also collected all the weapons in the country and melted them down to make new ones for his army only and also established one central government which would reunite the people who fought one another.

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How long did Qin Shi Huangdis rule last for?

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It lasted from c. 221-206 BCE

34
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What was found in some of the important rivers?

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Loess, a type of yellow mud that acted as good earth for growing food and helped keep people cool in the humid weather in summer.

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What was the physical feature of ancient Egypt?

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The Nile river, it provided a source of food, electricity and good vegetation for the plants to grow in and many Egyptians lived near the Nile

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What was life like for children in ancient Egypt.

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Most children worked at the age of 8 and got married at the age of 12-14

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List the people that make a social pyramid?

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Pharaoh 
Senior official
Scribes
Artisans
 Peasant farmers 
Servants/ slaves
38
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What was the book of the dead?

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The book of the dead contained spells or prayers to help decrease any danger in the journey through the afterlife.

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What is ma’at?

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Ma’at is the goddess who represented justice,truth,order and balance.

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What did the term “great house mean”

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It meant the pharaoh

41
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What does AD mean?

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AD means ‘Anno Domini’

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What does BC mean?

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BC means ‘before Christ’

43
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What does BCE mean?

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BCE means ‘ before common era’

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What does CE mean?

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CE means ‘common era’

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What Is an achronism?

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An achronism is an object, place or person placed outside its time period.

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