Germanic Tribes

Question 1

449

Answer 1

Germanic invasions of the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes

Question 2

What does this invasion mark?

Answer 2

The beginning of the English language

Question 3

Where did the Anglo Saxons come from?

Answer 3

From the regions of nothern Germany

Question 4

Where did the Jutes come from?

Answer 4

From the area of modern Denmark

Question 5

What language did thes tribes speak?

Answer 5

Varieties lf the West Germanic language

Question 6

Angleland

Answer 6

Land of the Angles

Question 7

Fifth to ninth century

Answer 7

The island reverted to the barbarious and wild situation of the pre Roman days

Question 8

Artus

Answer 8

A Briton leader who, for some time after 517, was able to put some successful resistance to the Germanics

Question 9

What legend was born from Artus

Answer 9

The legend of King Arthur

Question 10

Characteristics of the Germanic tribes

Answer 10

Barbarous and savage tribes, pirates, with a very primitive system of social organization.

Question 11

How did the Germanic tribes organize themselves?

Answer 11

In groups of thirty families

Question 12

Elected common leader of a group of families

Answer 12

Bretwalda

Question 13

How did they solve problems of everyday life?

Answer 13

They called a witan

Question 14

Witan

Answer 14

A sort of council of the old and wise man, to get their advice

Question 15

Weregild

Answer 15

A sort of monetary compensation that the offender had to pay to the family of the murdered person depending on the range and social prestige of the defunct

Question 16

Four most important kingdoms of the heptarchy

Answer 16

Northumbria, Mercia, Kent, Wessex

Question 17

Germanic religion

Answer 17

They believed in Germanic mythology of gods and goddesses

Question 18

Days of the week and Germanic gods

Answer 18

Monday and the moon
Tuesday and Tiw
Wednesday and Woden
Thursday and Thor
Friday and Frejya
Saturday and Sunday recall latin names

Question 19

Moral of the Germanic tribes

Answer 19

Physical and moral courage, endurance, and a rough sense of honesty

Question 20

Arrival of Christianism

Answer 20

560s ac

Question 21

Pelagious

Answer 21

Developed his own doctrine about salvation rejecting the notion lf the original sin whereas he stressed man’smoral capacity to choose between good and evil.

Question 22

Patrick

Answer 22

Carried the christian gospel to Ireland sometime in the fourth century

Question 23

Two missions during 567

Answer 23

Irish monks led by St Columba started their activities in Northumbria
Group of Roman monks led by St Augustine began preaching in the peninsula of Kent

Question 24

664 ac

Answer 24

Synod in Withby, conference where both missions recognised that Jesus had appointed Peter as the head of the church, so it was necessary to follow the leadership of the Roman church

Question 25

Importance of the conference of Withby

Answer 25

It linked the development of England to the mainstream of European culture for the following centuries

Question 26

Why did the German tribes adopt Christianism so rapidly?

Answer 26

Because it offered answers for all the great enigmas of life, and it caught the attention of the gloomy Germanics

Question 27

Monasteries

Answer 27

Large religious houses in which monks lived together to pray and work, ora et labora

Question 28

Activities at the monasteries

Answer 28

Working the soil, raising cattle and stock, healing the sick, building churches and edifices, weaving cloth, making chalices and dishes with prcious metals, storing food, grain, and wine, etc.

Question 29

Most important activity carried out at the monasteries

Answer 29

The writing of manuscripts at the scriptorium

Question 30

What did the monks write in the manuscripts?

Answer 30

The learning and treasures of the past, but also they started chronicles lf their own time.

Question 31

Bede

Answer 31

Monk who wrote Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in the monastery of Jarrow

Question 32

Nennius

Answer 32

Wrote Historia Britonum in the seventh c

Question 33

Gildas

Answer 33

Wrote De Excidio et Conquestu Britaniae

Question 34

Importance of monasteries

Answer 34

Where the light of civilization survived during the dark ages of Europe, where knowledge, learning, technology, history, etc. survived.

Question 35

Barbarian tribes that were assaulting Europe

Answer 35

Vandals, Goths, Huns

Question 36

Importance of the Christian church at the time

Answer 36

First institution in shaping of the English society and its worldwide

Question 37

Anglo Saxons character and weather

Answer 37

They were sad and depressive, probably because of the harshness of the weather.

Question 38

Wyrd

Answer 38

Destiny that is always fatal

Question 39

What do their literary creations reveal?

Answer 39

Their no space for woman, love, or beauty. Also, their obsessions and fears.

Question 40

Typical device of the Anglo Saxon poetry

Answer 40

Alliteration