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Background questions stage 14

The body in the bog

1. What do we know about the man who was sacrificed 2000 years ago?

2. How was it possible to obtain this information?

3. What do we know about the last meal he had before having been sacrificed?

4. Was he a poor or a rich man?

5. How was he killed?

6. When would a ritual killing have been practiced?

7. What shaped the beliefs of the Iron Age Britons most?

8. Why was water important for sacrificial offerings?

9. When was the tradition of human offerings stopped?

Apud Brittunculos

1. Why were the Romans not fond of being stationed in Britain?

2. What did the Romans call the Britains?

3. What did the Romans do to try and forget that they were stationed in Britain?

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