1. History Quiz
Ancient Ireland

2. What is a primary source? Give 2 examples
Question 1
What is a primary source?
Give 2 examples

3. Question 2
What comes first
30BC or 20AD

4. Question 3 What is dendrochronology?
Testing the carbon in something to see how old it is
Counting the rings on a tree to tell how old the wood is
Examining pottery to find out how old things are

5. Question 4 What kind of megalithic monument was found at Newgrange?
Dolmen
Portal
Court Cairn
Passage Tomb

6. Question 5
If an archaeologist finds pollen from grass and trees what period is this from?
Iron Age
Neolithic Period
Bronze Age
Mesolithic Period

7. What 2 metals do we mix together to get Bronze?
Question 6
What 2 metals do we mix together to get Bronze?

8. Question 7 What was the most important feature of a Rath/ring fort?
The houses inside it
The defensive wall & ditch surrounding it
The area to keep the animals
The beds

9. Question 8 Put these Ages in order starting with the earliest:
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Stone Age

10. Where was a crannog built?
Question 9
Where was a crannog built?

11. Question 10
What is an artefact?

12. Question 11
Give ONE difference between the Mesolithic and Neolithic people

13. Question 12 Explain TWO of the following: DRUID OGHAM STONES AOS DANA
DERBHFINE
TUATH
CIST GRAVE

14. Round 2
Get Ready………………….

15. Question 1
What were round towers used for in monasteries?

16. Question 2
What happened in the scriptorium?

17. Question 3
Name a Saint and the monastery he set up in Ireland.

18. Question 4
Name ONE Megalithic tomb

19. Question 5
Name TWO buildings that you would find in a monastery.

20. Question 6
Give ONE thing an archaeologist does when planning a dig.

21. Question 7

22. Question 8

23. Give 2 things the monks did in the monastery.
Question 9
Give 2 things the monks did in the monastery.

24. Question 10
What is a
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