Metals
Daily life
Materials
Jobs
Vocabulary
100

A reddish-brown metal which people discovered first

Copper

100

What did people eat?

The answers may vary

100

Which material did people use to make pots?

Clay

100

A person who makes and repairs iron objects and horseshoes

A blacksmith

100

The process of bringing animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company

Domestication

200

A brown metal made of copper and tin

Bronze

200

What clothes did they wear?

Women wore long, woollen skirts and short tunics.  Men wore knee-length wrap-around skirts (similar to kilts), tunics, cloaks and woollen hats. 

200

What were the weapons made from during the Metal Ages?

Iron

200

A person who makes dishes, plates, and other objects from clay, usually by hand on a special wheel

A potter

200

A metal that is made by mixing two or more metals

Alloy

300

A chemical element that is a common greyish-coloured metal. It is strong, used in making steel, and exists in very small amounts in blood

Iron

300

Where did they build their settlements?

In the valleys

300

What were the clothes made from?

Wool

300

Someone who owns or takes care of a farm

A farmer

300

The activity of buying and selling, or exchanging, goods and/or services between people or countries

Trade

400

A metal that is made by mixing two or more metals

Alloy

400

How did they protect their settlements?

By building fences or digging trenches around the settlements.

400

What were the houses made from?

Wood, mud, straw, clay


400

The leader of a tribe

A chieftain

400

A large stone, sometimes forming part of a group or circle, thought to have been important to people in the Stone Age for social or religious reasons

A megalith

500

Three metals that gave names to the periods of the Metal Ages

Copper, bronze, iron

500

Who were the Beaker people?

People who introduced metallurgy and made bell-shaped clay pots.
500

What was the jewellery made from?

Precious metals

500

A person whose job is making cloth and other materials (= making them by crossing threads over and under each other)

A weaver