History Key Words

Question 0

Artefacts

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Accuracy

Answer 1

The information is not correct it is not accurate

Question 2

What is the bailey

Answer 2

The enclosure that surrounded the motte

Question 3

What is the bailiff?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What were the bards and musicians?

Answer 4

They entertainded the ri and the warriors with stories and music

Question 5

What was the black death

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What was bias

Answer 6

The source is in favour of one side over the other

Question 7

What is carbon dating?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Name three celtic festivals

Answer 8

Samhain, Bealtaine, Lughnasa

Question 9

What was cattle and why was so important?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What was a census

Answer 10

The official population, the population was counted every decade

Question 11

What was the charter?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What is a cist grave?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What was court cairns

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Who were craftspeople

Answer 14

They were skilled as carpenters, goldsmiths or blacksmiths

Question 15

What was a crannog?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What was a curfew?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What was a demesne?

Answer 17

The land the king kept for his own use

Question 18

What is dendrochronology

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Who were doctors?

Answer 19

People who knew about herbal remedies and how to treat diseases

Question 20

What were dolems or portal tombs

Answer 20

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

Question 21

What was a dowry?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What was a druid?

Answer 22

A priest who arranges religious ceremonies and offered sacrifices to god

Question 23

What was a dibbing

Answer 23

The ceremony to become a knight

Question 24

Who was a file?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What was a fulacht fia?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What was a guild?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What were irish hunter gatherers?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What was joust or jousting?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

What was a judge?(brehon)

Answer 29

They helped the ri rule the kingdom

Question 30

What was a keep?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

How did a child become a knight?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

How do boys become a master craftsman ?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What was a medieval monastry?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What was the name of the hairstyle monks had?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Where did the monks sleep?

Answer 36

In the dormitory

Question 37

Where did the monks talk and pray?

Answer 37

In the cloisters

Question 38

What was the chapter house?

Answer 38

Where the monks discussed business

Question 39

What is the reflectory?

Answer 39

Where the monks ate their meals?

Question 40

What was the infrimary?

Answer 40

Where the sick was nursed

Question 41

Name three friars?

Answer 41

Cistercians, francisans, dominicans

Question 42

How did the medieval town defend itself?

Answer 42

By high walls and gates

Question 43

Nme three metals by the celts?

Answer 43

Bronze, tin and copper

Question 44

What was a moat?

Answer 44

The water filled ditch around the castle walls

Question 45

Name two monastic sites and who made it?

Answer 45

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

Question 46

What was a motte?

Answer 46

A small hill that the lookout fort was built on

Question 47

When new was newgrange built?

Answer 47

It was built during the neolithic or new stone age ireland

Question 48

How did the normans influence on irish life?

Answer 48

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

Question 49

What was ogham?

Answer 49

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

Question 50

What was a patron?

Answer 50

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