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The series concludes with Neil Oliver exploring the impact of Metal on the ancient people of Britain. The landscape shows the impact of metal and industry on ancient Britain. The dips in the ground were places where flint was mined. Flint was the life blood of the ancient world. Then a new technology hit Britain: metal.
Metal would bring a social revolution to the ancient Briton. Copper was discovered in Ireland and it would be shipped to Britain. It required local knowledge of the rocks and foreign expertise to tell people what to do with what was in the rock to spur a revolution. Prospectors came and started to take advantage of the stone. A new knowledge was required to make rock into metal and bellows were created to make the copper metal. A new society was brought to Britain and created different pottery: The Beaker People. They came from outside of Britain. They were different from the Ancient Britons. They knew how to work metal. They were buried in individual tombs instead of of communal terms. Individuality came to Britain. It was a radical thinking to Britain. In order to make copper useful, the ancient man had to incorporate tin. Tin was discovered in Cornwall and mined. When the ancient man added tin and copper together, bronze was formed. With Bronze, ancient man could make better tools and weapons. Bronze would launch a whole new age in Britain and they would leave behind bronze objects. Bronze was a valuable metal and it was a metal of prestige. To continue to learn more, continue to watch the documentary. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. The World of Stonehenge Episode 4 Questions:
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Episode 3, the ancient peoples' beliefs were shaped by astrology. Our ancestors started looking to the sky. The landscape helped facilitate the ancestors religious believe. Neil is brought up to the top of a mountain and is shown where the Ancient Britons worked stone axes.
It was not the Age of Cosmology where instead of looking to the ground, the ancestors looked to the sky for worship. It was a new way of thinking for the ancestors. It made them build stone circles. Stone circles are unknown outside of Britain and Ireland and they were set in dramatic landscapes. They were places where the ancestors could make spiritual connections. Oliver travels to Orkney to show the best preserved stone age monuments. Orkeny is made of stone and the people built with stones. Skara Brae is a site that shows how life was lived in the Stone Age. It was occupied for 600 years and contained 8 houses. Everything was made of stone, the hearth, bed, toilet, and dresser. It was designed to keep the drafts out. It gives a picture of what life was like. The ancestors started building monumental architecture and tied it to both the landscape and the sky. The sky was the biggest different in the new building. It helped the ancestors understand their place in the world. Stonehenge was one of the monuments that the ancestors built. Today it has different meanings to different people, but to the ancestors Stonehenge was made up of special rocks. Over the decades, Stonehenge undergone changes, the blue stones were moved from out of the circle to in the circle, inside the Saracens. They marked the spring and autumn. It was a place that marked the land of the living and the land of the dead. To continue to learn more, continue to watch the documentary. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. The World of Stonehenge Episode 3 Questions:
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Episode 2 Neil Oliver explores how farming made an impact on Britain. A social revolution came with the advent of farming in Britain. The Ice Age was over and Britain was covered in trees. Our ancestors worked with the land, they knew how to be a part of nature. Britain was still attached to Europe, however sea levels were rising which meant people couldn't travel easily back and forth any more.
The Isle of Wright was still attached to Britain and underneath the waters shows the world before the rising sea levels turned Britain into an island. It was the world of the Stone Age. An old long boat was discovered on the site. There was a discovery of seeds of barley, they came from Syria. The Society of Britain went from hunter and gatherers to farming. Families could grow their own food and support larger families. They slowly started to get away from the natural world. Our ancestors no longer needed to be a part of nature to survive. Britain's farming revolution started slow, the channel proving to be a barrier to a quick revolution. The first farmers came to Britain came over by boat. They came to Kent first where the soil was fertile and could provide well for the first farming families. Even today, Kent has excellent soil. However, there is little evidence of how the early farmers lived. Neil travels to Ireland in order to find the evidence to show how the early farmers live. Neil helps uncover a wall while harvesting peat. In Ireland, in a bog, stone walls made by farmers from the early farmers. The walls are extensive, they are also finding a huge field system set up by the farmers. There are fields for growing crops and for separating animals. Peat is another history book that documents what went on in the past. It shows the history of the forest before it became farmland. To continue to learn more, continue to watch the documentary. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. World of Stonehenge Episode 2 Questions:
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Neil Oliver explores the world of Ancient Britain, kicking off his series, with the Age of Ice. He explores the world of the ice age, discovering the remains of the people who lived during that period.
The series opens with an archeological site in Wales: Footprints of ancient man. Then Neil explores the nomadic hunter-gatherers and the stories of survival. He then looks to the bones of our ancestors to explain the history. Reverend William Buckland went down a cliff to explore a cave. He thought the cave contained artifacts from the Flood. He carefully documented his discovery of what he found. He discovered a human skeleton in the cave. He initially thought he found the remains of a prostitute, but it turned out the skeleton was much older. The Red Lady as he called the skeleton was part of the first group of inhabitants in Britain. It was at a time when the British Isles were part of a peninsula attached to Europe. The first hunter gatherers to Britain came over on a land bridge. They came in small bands during a colder period in history. They hunted mammoth and deer. Life was changing and the type of life they were living would change due to the Ice Age. The world was cold and getting colder. Life was tough and was about to become impossible. Britain was becoming a frozen wilderness. The entire population of Western Europe was wiped out. When the Ice Age ended people started coming back. This group was hardier and could withstand the cold. They documented their life in horse bone and in caves. They lived in a landscape shaped by their environment. Power of the environment shaped the landscape our ancestors lived in. To find out more about the Age of Ice continue to watch the documentary. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. The World of Stonehenge Episode 1 Questions:
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Neil Oliver explores the life and death of Alfred the Great, the English King who unified the country. He explores old England and what happened to the remains of Alfred the Great over the years.
A grave in a churchyard was excavated to uncover a set of bones, these bones could belong to Alfred the Great. It would help solve a 150 year old mystery, the bones were claimed to belong to Alfred the Great. He was the king that unified the English nation and the only English King called the Great. Neil Oliver explores the life of Alfred the Great from his early beginnings to his defeat of the Vikings. Oliver traces the history of how the bones ended up in the Church yard. He was originally buried in the old church in Winchester, then at the time of the death was in the progress of having a new monastery built. There he was exhumed and buried in the new monastery. When the Normans invaded they destroyed the Winchester church and then built a new church and moved the bones to a new church on the site. This church was then destroyed during the reign of Henry VIII, and it was a stone quarry for building the area around. He then looks at what happened to the area of the church during the Victorian period. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. All questions should fit onto one page after formatting. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. The Search for Alfred the Great Questions:
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Neil Oliver explores the Orkney Islands and explores the Viking ancestry of the island residents. The geneticists also compared the DNA from the residents of Norway to the residents of Orkney to determine Viking ancestry. They also compare how the residents of Orkney look in comparison to the residents of Norway. What was the impact of the Vikings on the bloodline of Britain? Was there a wholesale massacre of the people or did they intermarry with the locals?
The Orkney Islands were a perfect place for the Vikings to start their invasion of Britain. Oliver explores the history of the Viking invasions. He looks at names and shows how they can be a help in tracing a family's origins but only on the male side of the ancestry. He looks at what the fate the Pictish men had at the hands of the Vikings. He looks at the Orkney-Inga Saga for answers as to the fate of the Pictish men. Oliver also looks at a shipwreck that may have impacted the genetics of the people of Orkney Island. Sir Walter Bodmer's continues his work in creating a genetic map of Britain. This concludes the series on the genetic ancestry of the British. This episode concludes with the revelation of how Viking the residents of Orkney are. This series would be excellent for a science class studying genetics. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Face of Britain Episode 3 Questions:
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Episode 2, Neil Oliver explores the genetic links in East England. This episode is about the Anglo-Saxons and how they settled in East England. He also discusses how language came down through the ages.
Oliver explores the how widespread the dark age invasion of Britain was. Did they massacre the local people or did they incorporate them into the Anglo-Saxon culture? Oliver explores the history of the invasions and discovers one of the Original Anglo-Saxon invaders. He interviews Martin Brundle, former Formula 1 driver, about his roots. Then he goes into the local population to see if there is a regional look to the people of East Anglia. He leaves the English shores and explores Friesland and discovers the connection between the Old English Language and the Friesa language. He is armed with a bit of old English and goes into a grocery store to ask for Bread, Butter and Cheese. He is successful on his grocery trip. At the end of the episode, How Anglo-Saxon the participants are is revealed. Neil Oliver also reveals how Celtic he is. This is episode especially touched me because my ancestors came from East Friesland. My aunt thought we had English ancestors because the family name could be translated as "English man." This series would be excellent for a science class studying genetics. For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom. You can easily format these questions to your specifications. You can find the link for the YouTube video here. Face of Britain Episode 2 Questions:
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