History

Question 1

What does the M stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 1

The M stands for Motive

Question 2

What does the A stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 2

The A stands for Audience

Question 3

What does the C stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 3

The C stands for Content

Question 4

What does the P stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 4

The P stands for Perspective

Question 5

What does the R stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 5

The R stands for Reliability

Question 6

What does the U stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 6

The U stands for usefulness

Question 7

What does the O stand for in OMACPRU?

Answer 7

The O stands Origin

Question 8

What’s a primary source?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What’s a secondary source?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What does an Archeologist do?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What does an Anthropologist study?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What does a Cryptographer study?

Answer 12

A Cryptographer study’s codes and writing systems

Question 13

What does a scientific expert study?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What does a linguist study?

Answer 14

A linguist study’s the nature and structure of language

Question 15

What does a Palaeontologist study?

Answer 15

A palaeontologist study’s plant and animal fossils

Question 16

What’s a Hypothesis?

Answer 16

A Hypothesis is a theory.

Question 17

What does cremated mean?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What does thermoluminescence mean?

Answer 18

It involves scientists heating objects.

Question 19

What does stratigraphy mean?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What does a hunter-forager mean?

Answer 20

People who live by hunting animals

Question 21

What does civilisation mean?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What is a megafauna?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does radio carbon mean?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What does DNA analysis mean?

Answer 24

It means it’s useful for solving mysteries from history

Question 25

What is a source?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What does experimental archeology mean?

Answer 26

Sometimes archeologists used experimental archeology to test how something was created

Question 27

What does the term dynasty mean?

Answer 27

Period of time during which one family controls government.

Question 28

List the features in the Shang dynasty?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

What is the Mandate of Heaven ?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is feudalism and who introduced it?

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

What was the warring of the states?

Answer 31

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.

Question 32

What did Qin Shi Huangdi do to secure his power?

Answer 32

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.

Question 33

How long did Qin Shi Huangdis rule last for?

Answer 33

It lasted from c. 221-206 BCE

Question 34

What was found in some of the important rivers?

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

What was the physical feature of ancient Egypt?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What was life like for children in ancient Egypt.

Answer 36

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

Question 37

List the people that make a social pyramid?

Answer 37

``` Pharaoh Senior official Scribes Artisans Peasant farmers Servants/ slaves ```

Question 38

What was the book of the dead?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What is ma'at?

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What did the term "great house mean"

Answer 40

It meant the pharaoh

Question 41

What does AD mean?

Answer 41

AD means 'Anno Domini'

Question 42

What does BC mean?

Answer 42

BC means 'before Christ'

Question 43

What does BCE mean?

Answer 43

BCE means ' before common era'

Question 44

What does CE mean?

Answer 44

CE means 'common era'

Question 45

What Is an achronism?

Answer 45

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