Saxon England

Question 1

In Anglo Saxon England most people were?

Answer 1

Peasant farmers

Question 2

What was England’s economy based on?

Answer 2

Agriculture

Question 3

Which group of people had come from Scandinavia and attacked Britain starting in the 8th Century?

Answer 3

The Vikings

Question 4

What type of people were given land in Normandy?

Answer 4

The Vikings

Question 5

What religion did everyone follow in the 11th Century?

Answer 5

Christianity

Question 6

What was Danegeld?

Answer 6

A bribe in the form of money paid by the English to the Vikings to make them leave England.

Question 7

King Aethelred II was overthrown and killed by which Viking?

Answer 7

Canute

Question 8

What were the name of Canute’s 2 sons who also went on to become Kings of England?

Answer 8

Harold Harefoot and Harthacanute

Question 9

Canute split England up into 4 Earldoms. What were their names?

Answer 9

Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, Northumbria.

Question 10

Who was the most pwerful of the 4 earls?

Answer 10

Earl Godwin the Earl of Wessex

Question 11

What happened to Aethelred’s 2 sons?

Answer 11

They went to Normandy and stayed with their uncle, Richard the Duke of Normandy

Question 12

Who did Canute marry?

Answer 12

Emma, Aethelred’s widow

Question 13

What were Aethelred’s sons called?

Answer 13

Edward and Alfred

Question 14

Edward became the King of England in which year?

Answer 14

1042

Question 15

Who did Edward marry?

Answer 15

Edith, Earl Godwin’s daughter

Question 16

What did the Godwins do in 1051?

Answer 16

Rebel

Question 17

What happened to the Godwins as aresult of rebelling?

Answer 17

They were exiled from the country

Question 18

What was the group of important English advisers of the king called?

Answer 18

The witan

Question 19

What did the witan force Edward to do with the Godwins?

Answer 19

Allow them back into the country and give them back their lands

Question 20

In the late 1050s who was declared sub-regulus?

Answer 20

Harold Gidwinson

Question 21

What type of ruler was Edward the Confessor seen to be by many people?

Answer 21

Weak

Question 22

What 3 things did the English look for in the king?

Answer 22

related to the previous king, suported by the English church and lords, wealthy and powerful