The Iron Age And Celts

Question 0

Celts

Answer 0

Farming and warlike people who came from Central Europe

Question 1

Iron

Answer 1

the metal that replaced bronze in tools and weopons

Question 2

Tuath

Answer 2

the kingdoms Ireland was divided into during celtic times (150 of them)

Question 3

Derbhfine

Answer 3

the celtic royal family

Question 4

Aos Dána

Answer 4

thd ;earned and skilled people of celtic soceity

Question 5

Druid

Answer 5

a celtic priest

Question 6

Rath

Answer 6

Enclosed circular ditches or mounds of earth with houses built on a hill

Question 7

Crannóg

Answer 7

a man made island with a house built on top.

Question 8

Hillfort

Answer 8

like a rath but bigger and built on a hill

Question 9

promontory fort

Answer 9

a fort buit on the edge of a cliff

Question 10

léine

Answer 10

a knee length tunic celtic men wore

Question 11

crois

Answer 11

a celtic belt that tied a leine at the waist

Question 12

brat

Answer 12

a woolen cloak men and women wore during winter

Question 13

An dagda

Answer 13

The chief god and the god of the afterlife

Question 14

Lugh

Answer 14

The god of war lughnasa the celtic festival is named after him

Question 15

Ogham stones

Answer 15

A gravestone or slabs of stone with Ogham writing on it (the earliest type of writing in Ireland)

Question 16

Soutterrain

Answer 16

A underground passageway under a Rath for storing food and hiding

Question 17

Brehon law

Answer 17

The celtic law