1. English days of week were named after gods – (a) Germanic gods 2. Kingdoms like e.g. East Anglia were introduced by (a) the Saxons 3. The oldest ethnically identified inhabita... 1. English days of week were named after gods – (a) Germanic gods 2. Kingdoms like e.g. East Anglia were introduced by (a) the Saxons 3. The oldest ethnically identified inhabitants of Britain were (c) the Celts 4. Which invaders built the Hadrian’s Wall (b) the Romans 5. Ending “–ing” is characteristic for the towns of (a) Anglo-Saxon 6. Ending “–castra” is characteristic for the towns of (c) Roman origin 7. The skills of reading and writing were brought by (b) the Romans 8. Who introduced the name “Wales” (a) the Saxons 9. Who introduced the name “England” (a) the Saxons 10. Cities of Winchester &Leicester were built by (c) the Romans 11. Who divided the land into shires (a) the Saxons 12. In Roman times, today’s Scotland was called CALEDONIA , and its people were known as THE ‘CALEDONIANS’ 13. The name “Tuesday” is of b) Viking origin 14. Cities of Birmingham & Nottingham were built by (b) the Anglo-Saxon 15. Cities of Reading & Hastings were built by (b) the Anglo-Saxon 16. City of Southampton was built by (c) the Romans 17. William the Conqueror was a (a) Norman 18. The Normans invaded the British Isles (a) yes 19. The Normans invaded the British Isles (d) 11th c 20. The British Isles used to be connected with the continent (a) true 21. Who invaded Britain in 1066 - The Norwegian king Harald Hardrada invaded northern England in September 1066 22. The invaders who came to the British Isles from from Norway and Denmark (end of 8th century). The Vikings 23. First Norman King of England. He won the Battle of Hastings in 1066. - William the Conqueror 24. The invaders that brought the skills of reading and writing were – The Romans 25. Kingdoms of Essex, Sussex, Wessex, East Anglia were established by the Anglo-Saxons 26. Who called the island Britannia – The Romans 27. Who was Cheddar man - Cheddar Man was a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer (fully modern human) with dark skin and blue eyes 28. Latest findings about Cheddar man – in 1903 29. The Emperor HADRIAN ordered the Roman soldiers to build a wall between ROMAN BRITAIN and CALEDONIA (a. Hadrian; Roman Britain; Caledonia) 30. The Romans built country houses called VILLAS 31. The word ‘Britain’ comes from THE ROMANS 32. Britain did not have proper roads before the Romans came a) true 33. The language of the Romans was Latin which was also used by some people in Britain. An example of the word is EXIT meaning HE/SHE GOES OUT; ‘PEDESTRIAN’ – ‘GOING ON FOOT’ ) 34. British coins are based on ROMAN DESIGN 35. The idea of living in big towns/cities was introduced by THE ROMANS 36. After the Romans, the next group of invaders were ANGLO-SAXONS by 37. After the Anglo-Saxons, the next group of invaders were THE VIKINGS 38. After the Vikings, the next group of invaders were THE NORMANS 39. A place name having 'chester', 'caster' or 'cester' in it, is almost certainly of ROMAN origin. (a. Roman) 40. Give 3 examples of place names originating in Roman Britain • Manchester - Mamucium. • Glasgow - Glascouium. • England - Anglia. • York - Eboracum. • London - Londonia. • Oxford - Oxonium. (a. e.g. Gloucester, Doncaster, Manchester, ster, Canterbury, Chichester). 41. ‘Chester’ comes from the Latin ‘castrum’ meaning FORT 42. London, a Roman city, was called A LONDINIUM 43. The people of Britain called the Vikings DANES although they came from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 44. The Vikings wore horned helments b) false 45. Give 3 examples of Old Norse, the Vikings’ language today. (a. e.g. egg, muck, dirt) Búkr – BUG BOIL- BULL BÓK – BOOK boli 46. Give 3 examples of names of towns today based on Viking words (a. e.g. York and places ending in ‘thorpe’/’by’/’kirk’ e.g. Derby, Selby, Whitby, Scunthorpe, Copmanthorpe, Ormskirk). • York (Jorvik) ... • Ormskirk, Lancashire. ... • Scafell Pike, Cumbria. ... • Grimsby, Lincolnshire. • Whitby, North Yorkshire. 47. The Vikings established the city of A DUBLIN.. in Ireland 48. The most famous of Anglo-Saxon kings was ALFRED THE GREAT 49. Alfred the Great’s advisory council of nobles and church leaders was called THE WITAN 50. During Alfred the Great’s reign the ANGLO-SAXON Chronicle started to be written by monks 50. In the 9th century, the English king Alfred the Great stopped BY THE VIKINGS 51. The victory of William’s Norman army in 1066 stopped the rule of the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings – BATTLE OF HASTINGS 52. Who brought the concept of the pub as a place to meet friends and drink to Britain? THE ROMANS 53. In contrast to Britain, Rome was a PATRIARCHAL society and that is why they found it strange that Britons had a female war leader like BOUDICA (a. patriarchal; Boudica). 54. THE VENERABLE BEDE wrote his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. 55. The first English gospels were – TYNDALE BIBLE 56. THE NORMAN’s victory over the English at Hastings (14 October 1066) ended half a millennium of Anglo-Saxon England. 57. The Anglo-Saxon conquest was recorded in the most famous text in British history: ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE 58. Domesday Book is so important because it gives us a portrait of the England bequeathed us by the Anglo-Saxons 59. There is no evidence that the Vikings wore HORNED helmets. 60. The Vikings were not the ignorant and illiterate barbarians. TRUE True/False 61. In the 11th century, chivalry meant, essentially, not KILLING your enemies once they had been DEFEATED This was all foreign to England, where the norm till 1066 
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