Long And Illustrious History Flashcards
(41 cards)
Who were the first people to live in GB and in what era?
- hunter - gatherers in the Stone Age
How was Britain connected to the continent and when did it separate?
- connected by a land bridge
- separated 10,000 yrs ago
When did the first farmers arrive in GB and from where.
- 6000 years ago
- from South East Europe
What dod the first farmers build and where can you see its memorialisation today?
- they built houses, tombs and monuments
- one of these monuments is in Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
What is and was stonehenge?
- a monument built by first farmer
- in wiltshire
- was a place for seasonal ceremonies
What is a preserved prehistoric village in Britain that helps understand about how people lived near the end of the stone age?
- skara beaw on Orkney in Scotland
When did people learn how to make bronze?
4000 years ago
Where did people live in the bronze age and where did they burry the dead?
They lived in roundhouses and buried the dead in tombs called round barrows
What did people learn to make in the bronze age?
- tools, ornaments and weapons
- made of bronze and gold
What followed the Bronze Age? What did people make and what sites did they defend?
- The Iron Age followed the Bronze Age
- People made weapons and tools out of iron
- The defended sites called Hill forts (e.g. Maiden Castle in Dorset)
What were most people during the Iron Age and what language did they speak?
- farmers, craft workers or warriors.
- they spoke the Celtic language
Which people made the first coins in Britain?
The people of Iron Age
Who led an unsuccessful Roman Invasion of Britain and in what year?
Julius Caesar in 55BC
Who led a successful Roman invasion of Britain and in what year?
Emperor Claudius in AD 43
Who was one of the tribal leaders who fought against the Romans? Where is that person commemorated today?
Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni. Westminster Bridge London
Which Roman emperor built a wall?
What was the wall called?
Where is it located?
What was the purpose of building that wall?
What are the names of some parts of the Wall?
- Emperor Hadrian
- Hadrian’s Wall
- North England
- To keep the Picts (ancestors of the scottish people) out
- Housesteads and Vindolanda
How long did the Romans stay in Britain
400 years (left in AD410)
When did the first Christian communities appear in Britain?
3rd and 4th centuries
After the Romans, who invaded Britain? When did they get established in GB?
The Anglo Saxons
Established fully by 600 AD
Where was one of the Anglo Saxon kings buried?
Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. He was buried with treasure and armour which was placed in a shop was was covered by a mound of earth
Who founded a monastery in Scotland and where?
St. Columba, Island of Iona
Who led missionaries from Rome?
St. Augstine
Who became the first archbishop of Canterbury?
St. Augstine
Where did the Vikings come from?
When did they come to Britain first?
What did they raid first?
- From Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- First visited in 789
- To raid costal towns and take away goods and slaves
