StonehengeOnline version Watch a video about Stonehenge. For questions 1 to 7, choose the correct answer. by Maria Bastida 1 Why was Stonehenge built here? Select one or more answers a a. Because it's a strategic point b b. We don't know. c c. Because there are rivers near the place. 2 How many people visit Stonehenge? Select one or more answers a a. Six thousand every day of the year. b b. One million every summer. c c. Six thousand every summer day. 3 Stonehenge was built ... Select one or more answers a a. 5,000 years ago b b. 2,500 BC c c. 2,500 years ago 4 What do we know about the people who built it? Select one or more answers a a. The place where they lived. b b. Nothing. c c. We know a little about their rituals. 5 What do we know about the stones? Select one or more answers a a. They all come from Wales. b b. The small rocks come from far away. c c. They all come from 25-30 Km away. 6 How did they carry the stones? Select one or more answers a a. Probably using animals. b b. Probably a lot of men were needed. c c. Using advanced technology for that time. 7 Which of these theories does he mention about why it was build? Select one or more answers a a. Astronomical calendar. b b. Ritual sacrifices. c c. Religious. Explanation 1 Why was it built here? There are no rivers anywhere near it. Who built it? And why? There are many theories including, of course, that people from another planet were responsible. 2 On an average summer day, we get about six thousand people. And throughout the year, we could be looking at upwards of a million people visiting the site 3 When was it built? It was build two thousand five hundred BC (2,500 BC). So that's four and a half thousand years ago (4,500 years ago). 4 Who built it? We don't know much about the people who built the monument. We know they they lived in a site called Darrington Walls, a couple of kilometres away to the Northeast. And we know this because we found evidence of huts in site. 5 The stones themselves, the large stones are sarsen stone, a form of sedimentary rock; and it comes roughly 25 to 30 kilometres to the North, from a place called the Marlborough Downs. The small stones are blue stone, and they come from Wales, about 200 miles away. That would be about 260-280 kilometres. From South Wales. So they come from a long way away. 6 We don't know for sure who brought them or how they were brought. We know that they probably used rudimentary sledges, perhaps, to pull the stones. Greased planks along the floor to pull them. We know that it probably would have taken about a hundred men to pull an average sarsen stone. So there would have been a lot of manpower involved in their building of this place. 7 Why it was built is still a mystery, it will probably always be a mystery. And we know for sure that it was built upon the Solstice alignment. So the alignment with the longest day in summer and the shortest day in winter. So it could be an astronomical calendar. We also think it could possibly be a monument to the ancestors and basically that's all we really know for certain
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