Practice question · True or false
Stonehenge was built by Druids.
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- Compare the dates of the monument with those of the named group.
- The gap is roughly two thousand years.
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False
Why
The Druids arrive roughly two thousand years too late. Stonehenge was raised in stages from ~3000 BCE by people who had been dead for millennia before any Druid saw it.
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