Chapter 13-The Rise Of Modern Nations Flashcards
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Among the earliest known inhabitants of the British Isles were the _______, the barbaric descendants of people from the European mainland.
Celts
What was th special group of Celtic men who acted as teachers, judges, and priests and conducted religious ceremonies which included human sacrifice?
Druids
What is the mysterious monument that still stands in southern England and may have been an ancient Celtic worship site and observatory?
Stonehenge
What were the three groups of Germanic tribes that began to arrive in Britain in the 5th century A.D. and left everything in ruins?
Angels
Saxons
Jutes
What legendary king is one of the Celtic heroes that is remembered in poetry and prose
King Arthur
The Angels gave their name to the southern part of Britain- “Angleland”, or:
England
Who were the poets who renowned the early Saxons and devised long poems about war heroes and chanted them to their tribal chiefs for entertainment?
scops
What is the greatest Saxon poem that still remains?
Beowulf
Who was the missionary appointed by Pope Gregory I in 596 and began the enormous task of converting the Anglo-Saxobs to Roman Catholicism?
Augustine
Augustine the missionary eventually became the first ____________, the most influential church office in England?
archbishop of Canterbury
In what year did all of England officially accept Romanism?
664
In the mid-800s, a group of Vikings called the _______ began to invade England.
Danes
By 870, the Danes controlled most of England outside of _________, the leading Saxon kingdom.
Wessex
In a treaty with the Vikings, King Alfred the Great confined the Danes to the northeastern portion of England, an area called the:
Danelaw
Who was the first great king of England and was named this for his accomplishments, and helped in many ways to make England a nation-state?
Alfred the Great
King Alfred the Great made Englishman aware of their common history through a running account of current events, the ____________, which continued to be written for hundreds of years.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
In 886, King Alfred the Great occupied ________, an important town located on the Thames River in southeastern Britain.
London
Under less competent leadership, England fell to new Viking leaders, and in 1016, __________, who ruled England, Denmark, and Norway as a great empire, became king.
Canute the Dane
What were the four countries that became most evident to that circumstances tended toward unity?
England
France
Spain
Portugal
Who was the Saxon king who returned to the throne in 1042 with the help of the English nobles?
Edward the Confessor
When Edward the Confessor died, William, duke of Normandy, stepped forward to claim the throne. Ignoring William’s claims, the English nobles made the most powerful among them, __________, king.
Harold Godwin
William, duke of Normandy, decided to settle the issue of who would be king in battle and sailed with an army of 10,000 or more men to England, where he met Harold’s forces at the __________ on October 14, 1066.
Battle of Hastings
In what year did the Battle of Hastings take place?
1066
When William, duke of Normandy, defeated Harold Godwin, he baca me known as:
William the Conqueror