Village Life - part 1 | Squaducation

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Question 1:
What is a palisade?

Answer 2:

A compound around the village

Explanation for answer 2:

The compound was the group of buildings inside the palisade

Answer 1:

A wall of wooden posts

Answer 3:

A farmhouse

Explanation for answer 3:

The farmhouse would have been one of the buildings inside the palisade

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Question 2:
What is wattle and daube used for?

Answer 2:

To thatch the roofs

Explanation for answer 2:

Straw is used to thatch the roofs

Answer 1:

To plaster the walls of the houses

Answer 3:

To carpet the floors

Explanation for answer 3:

The Saxons didn't have carpets, they had dirt floors because the animals came inside the house too

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Question 3:
What is wattle & daube made of?

Answer 2:

Plaster and crushed beetles

Explanation for answer 2:

Plaster is a modern material and crushed beetles is just yuck

Answer 1:

Mud, hair and straw

Answer 3:

Animal skins and crushed bone

Explanation for answer 3:

Animal dung was used in wattle & daub, but not animal skins or bones

Village Life - part 1

Question 1/3

Question 1: What is a palisade?

Question 1/3

Question 2: What is wattle and daube used for?

Question 1/3

Question 3: What is wattle & daube made of?

Question 1:
What is a palisade?

Question 2:
What is wattle and daube used for?

Question 3:
What is wattle & daube made of?