Starter quiz
- What was the era before the Bronze Age called?
- the Stone Age ✓
- prehistory
- the Iron Age
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- People used ______ to make tools and weapons during the Bronze Age?
- 'bronze' ✓
- Rock or soil containing metal is called ______.
- 'ore' ✓
- Match the historical era to the materials used to make tools during that time.
- Stone Age⇔stone ✓
- Bronze Age⇔bronze ✓
- Iron Age⇔iron ✓
- What does the word prehistory mean?
- The time when we know nothing about humankind
- The time before humans existed
- The time before we have written records of human history ✓
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- Which era began approximately 4,000 years ago?
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age ✓
- Iron Age
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Exit quiz
- Starting with the earliest, put these historical eras in the correct order.
- 1⇔Stone Age
- 2⇔Bronze Age
- 3⇔Iron Age
- 4⇔Roman Britain
- The Iron Age replaced which era?
- Stone Age
- Bronze Age ✓
- Roman Britain
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- The Iron Age began when people began to use ______ to make tools and weapons.
- 'iron' ✓
- The Iron Age began when people started to use iron because it is __________.
- shinier than bronze
- softer than bronze
- stronger than bronze ✓
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- Who inhabited Britain during the Iron Age?
- the Celts ✓
- the Romans
- the Elizabethans
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- The Celts lived in houses made from which material?
- brick
- iron
- wood ✓
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Key learning points
- The Bronze Age was gradually replaced by the Iron Age in Britain approximately 2800 years ago.
- This happened when iron working began to replace bronze manufacture.
- Iron is a common metal and is harder and tougher than bronze but harder to smelt as it requires very high temperatures.
- At the time of this change, much of what is now England was inhabited by the Celtic people who had spread across Europe.
- Historians are not sure when they came to Britain or whether they did so peacefully.
Common misconception
That Celts and Iron Age people were two different things and there was a Celtic Era.
Ensure children understand that the Celtic people lived during the Iron Age.
Keywords
Iron age - the Iron Age is a period in history when people used iron
Smelting - when metal ores are heated up to extract the metal it is called smelting
Celts - Celts were groups of people living in Britain and across Europe during the Iron Age
Tribe - a tribe is a group of people living and working together
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