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chrisandbex | 20:39 Tue 10th May 2005 | History

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I have a history exam tomorrow and i wondered if any body could help me revise by answering theese followin questions !!

Who was Hannibal and why was he killed in 200BC
Who was Julieus Ceaser and why was he murdered in 44BC by senators in Rome
Why did the roman emperor come to an end in 475AD
Can you tell me some details about the organisation of the Roman army and in the waty they fought battles
How did people become slaves and what kind of work did they do
What were the main avents of 1066
What was the battle of stampford bridge
What happend at the battle of Hastings
How was King harold killed and what did the Normans do to win the battle of hastings !

What do the following words actually mean ...

Primary evidence

secondery evidence

century

consul

emperor

legion

slave

Thankyou and please reply with any answers i need them for tommorow as i have my History Essay !!

Thanks again CHRISTYXXxxxxxx

What do the following words actually mean

Cobblestones

the colour red?

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VINNY100_2

Over to you Quizmonster!!

jno

invaded Rome/wanted to become emperor/invaded by barbarians/no/by being captured; anything hard/2 invasions/Harold won/Harold lost/arrow in eye. Do let me know what kind of mark I get.

Philtaz

Harold actually took his arrow in the throat by all accounts. Harold's army fought at the Battle of Stamford Bridge then marched south for the Battle Of Hastings. The march took 12 days and thus took its toll on the weary soldiers.

The Roman Army were famous for using their shields to form an almost impregnable barrier against a volley of arrows. They would close ranks, the inner core would link shields above their heads and move into a crouch/kneeling position. As the shields were rectangular there were no gaps. The soldiers on the outer ring kept their shields vertical giving protection on all sides. The whole thing was said to resemble a tortoise.

Philtaz

This is a good link with pics, including one of a 'tortoise'.

http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/mil_roman_battle_tactics.htm

Philtaz

This calims to be the best on the net regarding 1066. It gives a detailed, chronological account of the build up, battle and aftermath, as well as all the main combatants.

http://www.battle1066.com/intro.shtml

woofgang

Christy, don't make a habit of this. Don't you have books with this info in? Honestly, there won't always be huge groups of people sitting on the 'net waiting to answer your questions when you have to sit exams or go to interviews. I know I sound like a miserable old woman, but you do need to learn to use the library and search the internet yourself and BEFORE the night before your exam!!

jno makes a good point when he asks you to tell us what kind of mark HE gets!!!

Loosehead

Well if you don't know those then you in trouble anyway. Presumably you have missed a load of lessons and done no work! Must be a GCSE

woofgang

be nice loosehead, this is one of our really young contributors

callisto

hi christy ...... hi only found this posting now , how did your exam go ? did your homework go astray?? As for all you adults out there we were all young once...werent we , if we had access to these things when younger wouldnt they have been used to do our homeworks too :) Speak soon christy let us know your mark .x

callisto

A+++ for jno. wow how did you remember all that ?

chrisandbex

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actually this was only a peactice exam and my library was shut i am only 12 yeares old and i could not find anything on the internet ! i had only been told about the test the day before and thought people on answer bank were nice ,obviously not !!! i am not happy !! i was asking for a bit of help revising not to do my test for me ,the only people who were nice about this was philtaz and callisto thanks to them for the help and support and to the rest of you i am upset i thought you nice guys would have helped obviously not it was only a litlle test we had in class ,i think i might find a website were people will respect my messages and answer my questions and not be sarci about it ,i am soooooo unhappy now !!!

jno

If I hadn't respected your question, Christy, I wouldn't have answered it. Believe it or not, all the answers I gave were correct (except the one about the Roman army, which I didn't know enough about) - but like everyone else I didn't have time to write essays, and your question sounded as if straightforward answers would be enough.

And Woofgang certainly respected you enough to offer seriously good advice - she wouldn't have known, any more than I did, that you only had 24 hours' notice (you should perhaps have mentioned this in your question, everyone on this site is extremely understanding). Hope it went ok, though.

Philtaz

chrisandbex,

Hope it went OK for you. I find it difficult to comprehend that you couldn't find anything on the net though!

http://www.google.co.uk/

Put that link in the Favourites of your browser and learn to use keywords and you'll be fine. Don't worry about those who've had a dig at you, after all you're only a 12 year old asking for advice! People don't seem to question how or why kjc wouldn't sometimes be better served on the Phrases and Sayings category by investing in an English dictionary!

Keep asking if you're stuck, that's what we're here for!

jno

actually, Philtaz, kjc's queries do bring occasional snide comments. But her questions always involve words and phrases that aren't in standard English dictionaries, let alone English-Korean ones. I answer them where I can, too.

Another good resource is www.wikipedia.org - an online encyclopedia. It has features on the battle of Stamford Bridge, Harold II, Hannibal and the rest - but as with all reference works, you'll need to be careful with your spelling of course.

callisto

KEEP SMILIN BABE :) their not all bad remember the oldies have bad days too...... i can understand you being upset but test is over now and most of us here are willing tohelpand luv yax

woofgang

come on Christy, most of us on here remember being 12 which is why you got loads of help and only one mildly snotty comment. Now honestly are you going to tell us that the things that you asked us didn't form part of your course work, that your teacher had never mentioned any of them and that you had never seen them in any of the learning resource that goes with your course work????

What would you have done if the answerbank website hadn't been working??

Octavius

In all honesty, if you can't at least be grateful to the people that did take time to answer your questions Jno etc , then you are probably in the wrong place anyway.

chrisandbex

Question Author

well my test is over and i am very grateful fro thoose who posted me helpful comments and to thoose who did not ,well what can i say there is always 1 ! Thabks any way your adviced helped and i will be getting the results tomoro lets hope i did well !

Cheers !!! love ya callisto