History JC

Question 1

What is a source

Answer 1

A source is something that gives us information or evidence about a person place or thing in the past

Question 2

What is archaeology

Answer 2

Archaeology is the study of the remains left by people in the past

Question 3

What is a primary source

Answer 3

A source from the time of the event a first hand account of what happened

Question 4

What is a secondary source

Answer 4

Is a source from a later date, after the time of the event

Question 5

What is archaeology

Answer 5

Is the study of the remains left by people in the past

Question 6

How do archaeologists find sites 4 answers

Answer 6

1) Ruins of an old building
2) An ariel photograph (shapes that are not obvious to us at ground level are sometimes revealed to be the lines of ancient structures)
3) An old document, map or other record
4) By accident

Question 7

What is a test trench

Answer 7

A sample hole dug to see if there is anything of interest present and judge whether it is worth excavating the whole site

Question 8

What is carbon 14 dating and how does it work

Answer 8

The older the tissue, the less carbon 14 it contains and how little can tell us how old

Question 9

What is dendrochronology

Answer 9

A method of dating that uses the unique growth patterns of tree rings as a guide

Question 10

What were Mesolithic peoples houses

Answer 10

The mesolithic people were nomadic. Regularly moving from place to place.
Archaeologists believed they lived in temporary dwellings such as tents

Question 11

What did the Neolithic do differently do the Mesolithic age in Ireland

Answer 11

They found new skills such as bread making tomb building and pottery making but most of all farming

Question 12

What were druids

Answer 12

Druids were spiritual figures similar to priests in pre Christian celtic Ireland

Question 13

Who did the Romans believed founded Rome

Answer 13

Romulus and Remus

Question 14

Who were Patricians

Answer 14

The patricians were the wealthy noble families who ruled Rome. They had huge estates and hundreds of slaves. They controlled the Roman government and army

Question 15

Who were the Plebeians

Answer 15

The poor who made up the vast majority of the population. They farmed worked in trade and served in the army.

Question 16

What did Patricians have that was different to rich Plebeians

Answer 16

Some plebeians became quite wealthy through trades they were known as equites but they had no political power unlike Patricians

Question 17

What were the Plebeians given

Answer 17

The Plebeians were giving dole a payment of free grain so that they would support the rule of patricians

Question 18

What houses did the patrician have and the plebeian have

Answer 18

A patrician family lived in a large detached house called a domus but the Plebeians lived in apartment blocks called insulae these were usually five storeys high filled with families

Question 19

Who became slaves in Ancient Rome

Answer 19

-Any prisoners of war became slaves
-The children of slaves automatically became slaves
-People captured by pirates and bandits while trading were often sold as slaves
-Parents in debt sometimes sold their own children into slavery

Question 20

What was marriage like in Ancient Rome

Answer 20

Roman girls usually married at age 14 or 15. They would be expected to run her husbands home.
Many women died in childbirth so men often married several times and a girl could easily end up marrying a man her fathers age

Question 21

What was Education like in Ancient Rome

Answer 21

Plebeian Children received a basic education at home. A wealthy Romans education had three different stages
1. Boys and girls from 7-12 attended ludus they learned reading, writing and arithmetic.
2. At 12 boys only continued education and studied History, Grammar, Geomatry and studied literature.
3. At 16 a patrician boy was thought the art of public speaking

Question 22

What were the Romans forms of entertainment

Answer 22

Public baths, chariot racing, Roman theatres, amphitheatres and gladiators

Question 23

What do you know about the Roman army

Answer 23

The Roman army was the most successful fighting force in the ancient world. Men signed up for 25 years of service and were highly trained. They fought with a vast array of weapons and could March long distances in short amounts of distances