Chapter 14

Question 1

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 1

Denmark

Question 2

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 2

Chester

Question 3

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 3

London

Question 4

Find Denmark.

Answer 4

Question 5

Find Chester.

Answer 5

Question 6

Find London.

Answer 6

Question 7

Saxon king in western England; conquered Danes and established border between Danish and Saxon rule in England

Answer 7

Alfred the Great

Question 8

West Saxon king; killed in battle with the Danes

Answer 8

Ethelred

Question 9

succeeded by Alfred

Answer 9

Ethelred

Question 10

“You, King Alfred, were teh wondering minstrel?”

Answer 10

Guthrum

Question 11

“I will give you your liberty if you will become a Christian and never again make war on my people.”

Answer 11

Alfred

Question 12

sheep skin treated to use as a writing medium

Answer 12

parchment

Question 13

itinerant poet-singer of the Middle Ages

Answer 13

minstrel

Question 14

Date of Alfred the Great’s first English naval victory

Answer 14

875

Question 15

How did Alfred become king?

Answer 15

Alfred became king after his older brother Ethelred was killed fighting the Danes.

Question 16

Why did he build a navy?

Answer 16

As more and more Danes were coming over from Denmark, Alfred built a navy to be able to fight them in their own element and defeat them or disrupt them before they could land.

Question 17

875 AD

Answer 17

Alfred the Great: first English naval victory

Question 18

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 18

Norway

Question 19

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 19

Paris

Question 20

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 20

Rouen

Question 21

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 21

Seine River

Question 22

Find Norway.

Answer 22

Question 23

Find Paris

Answer 23

Question 24

Find Rouen

Answer 24

Question 25

Find the Seine River.

Answer 25

Question 34

raided Britain and northern Europe for over two centuries

Answer 34

Norsemen

Question 35

Icelander; established short-lived colony in Labrador

Answer 35

Leif the Lucky (Leif Eriksson)

Question 36

led raiding parties up the Seine

Answer 36

Rollo

Question 37

established what became the duchy of Normandy

Answer 37

Rollo

Question 38

king of France; made peace with Rollo and granted him and his people the Normandy territory

Answer 38

Charles the Simple

Question 39

"Let us make ourselves homes here, and I and my Vikings will become your vassals."

Answer 39

Rollo

Question 40

"Never will I bend my knee before any man and no man's foot will I kiss."

Answer 40

Rollo

Question 41

demonstration of allegiance to a feudal lord

Answer 41

homage

Question 42

agricultural peasant; member of the lowest feudal class

Answer 42

serf

Question 43

subject of a feudal lord

Answer 43

vassal

Question 44

What territory in France did Rollo acquire, and what was required of him in return?

Answer 44

Rollo's grant was the territory now called Normandy. Rollo was obliged to hold and show allegience to the king, and to provide troops for the king's army in times of war.

Question 45

first king to rule England as a united kingdom

Answer 45

Egbert the Saxon

Question 46

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 46

Britain

Question 47

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 47

Wales

Question 48

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 48

Ireland

Question 49

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 49

Wessex

Question 50

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 50

the North Sea

Question 51

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 51

(English) Channel

Question 52

Find Britain.

Answer 52

Question 53

Find Wales.

Answer 53

Question 54

Find Ireland.

Answer 54

Question 55

Find Wessex.

Answer 55

Question 56

Find the North Sea

Answer 56

Question 57

Find the (English) Channel.

Answer 57

Question 58

chiefs of the Jutes; early Germanic settlers in England

Answer 58

Hengist and Horsa

Question 59

legendary and partly mythical Briton king

Answer 59

King Arthur

Question 60

resisted Anglo-Saxon invasions

Answer 60

King Arthur

Question 61

missionary who spread Christianity in Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions

Answer 61

St. Patrick

Question 62

"Oh, they would be angels instead of Angels if they were only Christians, for they certainly have the faces of angels."

Answer 62

the monk Gregory

Question 63

solving dispute; making peace of friendship

Answer 63

conciliation

Question 64

How did Egbert end up at the court of Charlemagne?

Answer 64

Egbert claimed the kingship of Wessex, but the people supported another man. Egbert fled to Charlemagne.

Question 65

How did this experience influence him and affect English history?

Answer 65

Egbert was impressed by and learned from the many innovations of Charlemagne. He returned to England and established there, the sytem of Charlemagne. He persuaded or forced the petty kings to recognize his rule as the first king of a unified England.