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Artefacts

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These include jewellery, weapons and buildings found by archaeologists when they dig up the ground looking for clues

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Accuracy

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The information is not correct it is not accurate

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What is the bailey

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The enclosure that surrounded the motte

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What is the bailiff?

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The person appointed by the lord to take charge of the village and made sure peasants paid rents and taxes

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What were the bards and musicians?

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They entertainded the ri and the warriors with stories and music

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What was the black death

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A terrible plague in Europe in 1347, all the victims turned black and died

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What was bias

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The source is in favour of one side over the other

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What is carbon dating?

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A scientific method to find the date of an object the older an object the less carbon found

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Name three celtic festivals

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Samhain, Bealtaine, Lughnasa

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What was cattle and why was so important?

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It was a cow, it was the currency in the celts period and it had large sources of raw materials

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What was a census

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The official population, the population was counted every decade

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What was the charter?

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A legal document in which the king allowed the town run its own affairs in the middle ages

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What is a cist grave?

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A pit in the ground lined with stone slabs, cremated reamins or bodies buried in a slouched position

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What was court cairns

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A court at the entrance to the tomb used for religious purposes before the burial takes place inside the cairn.Inside there is a passage leading to the chamber underneath the cairn

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Who were craftspeople

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They were skilled as carpenters, goldsmiths or blacksmiths

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What was a crannog?

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A manmade Islands in lakes, it was surrounded by timber stakes, layers of stone, mud and twigs were put in a circle to build a mould higher than the water level.It was surrounded by a wooden fence and houses were built inside the mould

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What was a curfew?

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It meant that all the fires had to be out in the town by a certain time

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What was a demesne?

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The land the king kept for his own use

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What is dendrochronology

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Used to date wooden object, count how many rings a wooden object has becuase the tree grows a new ring each year

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Who were doctors?

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People who knew about herbal remedies and how to treat diseases

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What were dolems or portal tombs

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Two or three large stone tables were put upright and a very big stone was put ontop

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What was a dowry?

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Money cattle and household utensils giving by a noble womens parents on the day of her marraige, these were part of the contract of marraige

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What was a druid?

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A priest who arranges religious ceremonies and offered sacrifices to god

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What was a dibbing

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The ceremony to become a knight

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Who was a file?

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A person in the iron age who wrote poems about the king and the heroic deeds of a warrior

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What was a fulacht fia?

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A bronze age cooker used by celts.this was a pit of water that was heated by rocks in a fire

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What was a guild?

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All craftsmen who worked in a medieval town had to belong to a guild e.g a bakers guild or a goldsmith’s guild

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What were irish hunter gatherers?

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Irish men in the mesolithic period who hunted fish, deers and boars and gathered berries and nuts

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What was joust or jousting?

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Two knights in full armour galloped towards each other. The concept of the game is to knock off your opponent.the winner gets the losers weapons and armour

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What was a judge?(brehon)

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They helped the ri rule the kingdom

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What was a keep?

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The main building in the castle where the lord and lady lived

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How did a child become a knight?

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Page:7 years old, moved to other castle, learned to ride horses, use swords, sing, dance, good manners, served lady in table dressed lord
Squire:14 years old, learns to fight on horse, cared lords weapons in war
Knight:21 years old, dubbing ceremony, prays previous night promises code of chivalry

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How do boys become a master craftsman ?

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At twelve years old you become an apprentice for 7 years and live in a master craftsman house.After the seven years you can become a journeyman, they were paid for their work and could search for better wages, to prove the guild he could be a good master craftsman he would make a master piece and pay a wage

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What was a medieval monastry?

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Tonsure haircut, abbot the head of monastery, slept in dormitory, had cloisters to walk to and pray, a chapter house to discuss business, a reflectory to eat meals

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What was the name of the hairstyle monks had?

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Tonsure, the centre of the hakr was bald but the sides were full

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Who was the head of the monastry and how was he elected?

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The abbot was the head of the monastry and he was elected by the other monks

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Where did the monks sleep?

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In the dormitory

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Where did the monks talk and pray?

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In the cloisters

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What was the chapter house?

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Where the monks discussed business

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What is the reflectory?

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Where the monks ate their meals?

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What was the infrimary?

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Where the sick was nursed

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Name three friars?

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Cistercians, francisans, dominicans

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How did the medieval town defend itself?

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By high walls and gates

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Nme three metals by the celts?

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Bronze, tin and copper

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What was a moat?

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The water filled ditch around the castle walls

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Name two monastic sites and who made it?

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Clonmacnoise by St.Ciaran and Inis Mor by St.Edna

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What was a motte?

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A small hill that the lookout fort was built on

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When new was newgrange built?

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It was built during the neolithic or new stone age ireland

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How did the normans influence on irish life?

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They built towns, brought in craftmen and farmers from england, english language, they tilled the land amd grew oats and barley.they made stone castles

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What was ogham?

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The earliest form of writing in ireland Ogham stones often marked the entrance to graves

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What was a patron?

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A person who commissions an artist to produce a work of art he ays an artist

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