History – November 2014
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Question One:
Arrange the following events in Chronological Order and place your answer in the space provided:
A The attack on the Twin Towers 2001 A.D.
C The First World War 1914 – 1918 A.D.
B The Battle of Clontarf 1014 A.D.
D The assassination of Julius Caesar 44 B.C.
Place the following dates in the correct century:
Date
44 B.C.
79 A.D.
432 A.D.
1014 A.D.
1945 A.D.
Century
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin. It was knocked down in November 1989, 25 years ago this
week. Place a tick under the appropriate heading to show what type of source of history would describe each of the
following descriptions of the event.
Description
A live T.V. recording of the fall of the wall.
A newspaper report on the fall.
A radio interview with one of the people living in Berlin at the time.
An RTE documentary about the fall.
Primary
Secondary
A description of the fall in a history book.
An entry in the diary of one of the Berlin police from the time.
In the Christian Calendar 2014 A.D. means ______________________ ________________________ and B.C. means
_________________________________. Some books now use the term C.E., meaning _______________________________
Complete the table below
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A book written by a person about their own life is called an. . . .
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A book written by a person about the life of another is called a . . . .
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The counting of the population is called a . . . .
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People who study history through examining physical evidence are called
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People who study history through examining written evidence are called
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A man-made object that survives the past is called an . . . . . . .
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Complete the following:
A MILLENIUM is a period of
_____________________ Years
A DECADE is a period of
_____________________ Years
A CENTURY is a period of
_____________________ Years
Question Two:
Historians study the past mainly through examining records but archaeologists are said to study the past by examining the
remains of times past that can be found in the sites of ancient habitats (where people lived) and burial sites.
Examine the pictures below and identify the tools that are often used in archaeological ‘digs’. List 6 of these tools in the
space provided on page 3.
Tools used above include:
1. ________________________________.
2. _______________________________.
3. ________________________________.
4. _______________________________.
5. _________________________________.
6. _________________________________.
What is the age of the this small fir tree?
Answer: ________ Years old.
This method of dating wooden objects is called
D_______________________
C_______________________
Another common scientific way to date artefacts is to use
C_______________ D______________
One of the most famous archaeological digs in Ireland was carried out in M__________ S___________ in Co. Derry and from
carbon dating it is estimated that people lived there in about _____________ B.C. This is the oldest known settlement so far
discovered.
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Question Three:
From the point of view of someone living in Western Europe, place dates in the second column for the periods of history
referred to below:
Period
Approximate dates
Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
The Stone Age is often divided into three periods that are called:
The P__________________ Period
The M_________________ Period
The N__________________ Period
Name two things that the discoveries at Newgrange tell us about Neolithic people
(i) ____________________________________________________________________
(ii) ____________________________________________________________________
Under the headings given below you are required to describe very briefly how the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods were
different:
Mesolithic
Neolithic
How they got food
Type of tools used
Type of house lived in
Question Four:
The Celts were the dominant race in Europe during the early _________ Age and archaeologists have discovered large
settlements at Halstatt in __________________ and at ___________________ on the banks of Lake Neuchatel in
Switzerland. The Romans called them G___________ and the Greeks called them K_____________.
Their control of much of Europe was ended by the spread of the R___________ E____________.
The Celtic family was called a F___________________ and a collection of these families formed a tribe or clan called a
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T___________________ who were lead by a king or R____. Next in importance under the king was a group made up of
nobles, warriors, musicians and druids called the _____________________________________. At the bottom of Celtic
society were the ________________, captured during raids on neighbouring tribes or captured abroad.
The Celts dwelling places were usually within an area protected by a raised rampart made of earth and stone. This kept
animals in at night and was some protection from raids by other clans. Celts lived in forts. The rampart (protective wall)
was known as a R___________ and the area within it is called a L________. Both words occur in many Irish placenames. The remains of thousands of these forts can be seen around the country. There was often an underground
passage beneath these forts used to store food or to hide. Archaeologists call these underground passages
__________________. The Celts were polytheistic, meaning that they believed in __________________________.
Question Five: Under each picture below describe what is being shown. (Note, 11 and 13 are not the same)
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