Anglo-Saxons

Question 1

Why did the Romans have to leave Britain?

Answer 1

In 410 AD Italy was attacked by foreign tribes so they had to go back to their homeland

Question 2

Where were the Angles and Saxons from?

Answer 2

Angles - from Denmark

Saxons - from Germany

Question 3

What places did the Anglo-Saxons push the British to when they invaded?

Answer 3

Scotland and Wales

Question 4

Did the Anglo-Saxons make Britain better after the Romans left or did Britain’s conditions worsen?

Answer 4

The conditions worsened in Britain:

• the Anglo-Saxons killed many British men, women and children

• they burnt houses down and stole land

• Roman roads, buildings and aqueducts slowly crumbled as the invaders did not have the skills to fix them

• they went back to living in wooden huts and health worsened without clean water, toilets and sewers