History Revision

The Historian

100

Someone who is a student of history.

What is a historian?

200

The study of the past.

What is history?

300

A source from the time.

What is a primary source?

400

A source from after the time.

What is a secondary source?

500

Checking more than one source to ensure accuracy.

What is crosschecking?

The Archaeologist

100

Digging up the ground to find evidence left by people in the past.

What is excavation?

200

A photograph taken from an elevated position that can reveal dig sites.

What is an aerial photograph?

300

A tool used by an archaeologist to remove topsoil.

What is a digger?

400

A tool used to sift soil and find small artefacts.

What is a sieve?

500

A radioactive isotope with a half-life over 5,730 years.

What is Carbon-14?

Early Christian Ireland

100

A free-standing stone cross, usually carved with Biblical stories.

What is a high cross?

200

A place where manuscripts are made.

What is a scriptorium?

300

A place where monks would hide in case of Viking attacks.

What is a round tower?

400

A person who worships many gods, usually revolving around nature.

What is a pagan?

500

Most famous manuscript in Ireland, currently held in Trinity College.

What is the Book of Kells?