WELLAND GOULDSMITH SCHOOL
CLASS – 5
SUBJECT – HISTORY
CHAPTER 3 – THE IRON AGE
ANSWER KEY
A – FILL IN THE BLANKS:
1. Materials
2. Bronze
3. 1200
4. 1000
5. Copper and bronze
6. Sickles
7. Trade
8. Civilization
B- GIVE ONE WORD ANSWERS:
1. Shovels , Sickles
2. West Asia
3. Rotary quem
4. Swords , daggers
5. Greece , Rome
C- ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. The iron age refers to a period of time when people learnt to use iron for making tools and
weapons. It was a time when people started using iron more than any other materials.
2. Iron was widely used because it was stronger , cheaper and more easily available than copper
and bronze.
3. Some features of the Iron Age were improvement in agriculture , growth of towns and cities ,
spread of civilization and beginning of trade.
TEXTBOOK ANSWERS: ( PAGE 25 )
A – CIRCLE THE CORRECT ANSWERS:
1. Bronze age and iron age
2. 1000 BCE
3. Iron
4. Improved
5. Iron
B- FILL IN THE BLANKS:
1. West Asia
2. Copper
3. Specialized
4. Chariot wheels
5. Towns and cities
C-. ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:
1. This is well understood by the example of the different ages for example when stone was widely
used to make tools and weapons that period was known as the stone age. Later , as humans
learnt to make and use bronze tools the period was known as the bronze age. And finally in the
iron age people learnt to use iron tools and weapons more than any other available materials.
2. The iron age refers to a period of time when people learnt to use iron for making tools and
weapons. It was a time when people started using iron more than any other materials available.
3. Iron was harder and could not be melted as it needed a much higher temperature than bronze.
So it was heated and hammered into shape. This repeated heating and hammering made iron
tools stronger than bronze tools.
4. The surplus food production led to trade goods and food were exchanged between places. The
use of money began. It also gave rise to different kinds of occupations.
5. Weapons such as swords , daggers and arrowheads were made in the iron age.
