Exploring the Iron Age: A Quiz on Ancient Civilizations Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the New Lipchis Way passes an hundredal church and an Iron Age hill fort used by clubmen before crossing the Devil's Ditch.

the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian-speaking immigrants from the Iron Age.

the Iron Age Witham Shield was originally decorated with the leather silhouette of a wild boar (pictured).

the Observatory (pictured) on Clifton Down in Bristol is likely to have been used as a lookout post since at least the Iron Age.

the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England, Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire.

upon its discovery, the Newark Torc was called "probably the most significant find of Iron Age Celtic gold jewellery made in the last 50 years".

in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site.

although Mellor hill fort is Iron Age in origin, artefacts possibly as old as 10,000 years have been discovered on the site, including a 4,000-year-old amber necklace.

Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland, Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle.

Eddisbury hill fort, the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them.

Danebury (pictured), an Iron Age hillfort in Hampshire, England, was occupied from about 550 BC until 100 BC when the gates were burnt down, probably in an attack.

Maiden Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, is so-called because it is thought never to have been taken in battle.

David Booth found the Stirlingshire Hoard of four gold Iron Age torcs on his very first metal detecting outing.

a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house.

a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat.

archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area.

Exploring the Iron Age: A Quiz on Ancient Civilizations

1 What is the capital of Neo-Assyrian Empire?

2 What religion does the Achaemenid Empire adhere to?

3 An iron working centre in ________ is dated to the first millennium BC.

4 Which of the following is a quote about/from Qin Dynasty?

5 Iron working was introduced to Europe around 1000 BC, probably from ________ and slowly spread northwards and westwards over the succeeding 500 years.

6 During the Iron Age, the best tools and weapons were made from steel, an alloy consisting of iron with a ________ content between 0.02% and 1.7% by weight.

7 In Scandinavia, further prehistoric periods follow up to AD 1000: the ________, the Vendel or Merovingian Period and the Viking Period.

8 After a scientific examination, the iron was shown to be made from ________ siderite.

9 The majority of remains of their iron producing and blacksmith's industries from 5th to 3rd century BC was found near Nikopol in Kamenskoe Gorodishche, which is believed to be the specialized metallurgic region of the ancient ________.

10 The Etruscan Iron Age was then ended with the rise and conquest of the ________, which conquered the last Etruscan city of Velzna in 265 BC.

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