Anglo-Saxon Period

Question 1

1066

Answer 1

Norman Conquest

Question 2

800 A.D

Answer 2

Creation of Beowulf

Question 3

British Literature

Answer 3

Literature written in English by British Subjects

Question 4

What is Britain made up of?

Answer 4

England, Wales, Scotland, & Ireland

Question 5

What is the Iberian Peninsula today?

Answer 5

Spain & Portugal

Question 6

Who settled the British Isles during the Stone Age?

Answer 6

the Iberians

Question 7

When was Stonehenge built?

Answer 7

2.000 B.C

Question 8

What people settled between 800-600BC?

Answer 8

Celts

Question 9

Name the 2 groups of Celts

Answer 9

1. Brythans

2. Gaels

Question 10

What place did the Brythans settle?

Answer 10

Britain

Question 11

What place did the Gaels settle?

Answer 11

Ireland

Question 12

Celts were __________ & were organized into ________

Answer 12

farmer-hunters; clans

Question 13

Define Chieftain

Answer 13

The leader of Brythan and Gael clans

Question 14

Celts; Who were the Druids?

Answer 14

Priests who were also Judges

Question 15

Celts; Who were the Judges?

Answer 15

judges who settled interclan disputes (prechristian religion included sacrifices)

Question 16

Celts; what did the storytellers do?

Answer 16

memorized & recited epics- heroic myth poems

Question 17

Name 2 Epics

Answer 17

1. Old King Cole (nursery rhyme)

2. King Lear (Shakespeare)

Question 18

Who settled between 55-54 BC

Answer 18

The Romans

Question 19

Julius Caeser

Answer 19

Invades twice; doesn’t truly conquer the Isles but he says he does. 1st example of political “spin”

Question 20

Which Roman ACTUALLY conquered the Isles & what did they build

Answer 20

Emperor Claudius; they established camps, then towns, and then paved roads

Question 21

407 A.D

Answer 21

Last Roman legions leave Britain to help defend Rome against encroaching barbarians

Question 22

Who invades in 449 A.D

Answer 22

Angles, Saxons and Jutes

Question 23

Angles Saxons and Jutes were ____/______ from ______ and _______ (saxony)

Answer 23

warrior/fisherman; Denmark; Germany

Question 24

Angles take over all ____________; Area becomes known as _______ _______ shortened to ______

Answer 24

West Britain; “Angles Land”; England

Question 25

Germanic Languages spoken by the angles, saxons and jutes develop into ________ which turnd into ______

Answer 25

Angle-ish; English

Question 26

Who chose the king?

Answer 26

The Witan (council of elders)

Question 27

Who was the Witan?

Answer 27

A council of elders who chose the king

Question 28

Name the 4 social classes

Answer 28

1. Earls 2. freemen 3. Churls 4. Thralls

Question 29

Earls were...

Answer 29

hereditary, ruling warlords loyal to the king

Question 30

freemen were...

Answer 30

landowners & traders; included Thanes- soldiers

Question 31

Churls were...

Answer 31

bonded servants who worked the land

Question 32

Thralls were...

Answer 32

Slaves

Question 33

Tiu

Answer 33

God of sky/war

Question 34

Woden

Answer 34

chief god

Question 35

Fria

Answer 35

goddess of home/ Woden's wife

Question 36

The original britans retreat to? and continue to speak ____, ___, & ____

Answer 36

Scotland, Wales, & Ireland; welsh, irish, & gaelic

Question 37

who introdced christianity & who kept it alive where

Answer 37

Romans introduced it, Cets kept it alive in Wales & Ireland then Scotland and England

Question 38

449

Answer 38

Invasion of Angles, Saxons & Jutes