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If You Can Identify At Least 20 Of The 24 Tools In This Quiz, You’re Basically A Historian
We’ve collected 24 tools for you to figure out. Most of them come from the past, some even from ancient times, and a few are still used today. A lot of these objects don’t exactly look like the tools we’re used to now, which makes things a bit trickier. Your job in this quiz is simple – look at the picture and try to pick the correct use for each tool.
Let’s see how many you can get right! 🔧
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Cee Cee 6 months ago
17 tally stick. Much, much older than Roman. The picture is of the Lebombo bone found in S. Africa and is over 40,000 years old. These are subject to differing opinions as to their use and certainly not confined to recording debt. Tallies of livestock, a sort of calendar or purely decorative/ritual markings.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
BP's "source" (the tiny link under the photo on the left-hand side) literally says "Actually, it’s hard to know how these devices were used." It mentions that sometimes they were used as calendars/day trackers and sometimes as livestock tallies. And yet those answers were "wrong", according to BP. XD https://misfitsandheroes.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/tally-sticks/
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Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
The given answer to 11 is wrong. I spotted it was Chinese. Traditional Chinese magnetic compasses pointed south (not north - the "correct" answer), so I guessed at a different use. The original article states: "...Its author notes [...] the compass, or “south pointer” as the Chinese called it...". Anyway, I'm happy with 22/24 given the number of wild guesses I made, even though it should have been 23 if only Q11 had had a correct answer available. 😉😁 Thank you BP.
Cee Cee 6 months ago
17 tally stick. Much, much older than Roman. The picture is of the Lebombo bone found in S. Africa and is over 40,000 years old. These are subject to differing opinions as to their use and certainly not confined to recording debt. Tallies of livestock, a sort of calendar or purely decorative/ritual markings.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 6 months ago
BP's "source" (the tiny link under the photo on the left-hand side) literally says "Actually, it’s hard to know how these devices were used." It mentions that sometimes they were used as calendars/day trackers and sometimes as livestock tallies. And yet those answers were "wrong", according to BP. XD https://misfitsandheroes.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/tally-sticks/
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 6 months ago
The given answer to 11 is wrong. I spotted it was Chinese. Traditional Chinese magnetic compasses pointed south (not north - the "correct" answer), so I guessed at a different use. The original article states: "...Its author notes [...] the compass, or “south pointer” as the Chinese called it...". Anyway, I'm happy with 22/24 given the number of wild guesses I made, even though it should have been 23 if only Q11 had had a correct answer available. 😉😁 Thank you BP.
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