1000-1500(1.1 Norman Conquest)

Question 1

What is migration?

Answer 1

When people move from place to place to take up residence

Question 2

What is immigration?

Answer 2

People arriving as migrants

Question 3

What is emigration?

Answer 3

People leaving to find a better or safer place to live

Question 4

What is economic migration?

Answer 4

When people migrate to find work

Question 5

What is forced migration?

Answer 5

When people are forced to migrate against their will

Question 6

What is step migration?

Answer 6

When people migrate to one place and then move to another

Question 7

What is chain migration?

Answer 7

When people migrating from one region are joined by others from the same region who follow them

Question 8

When was the Battle of Hastings and what was it the start of?

Answer 8

1066-marked the start of the Norman invasion and conquest of England

Question 9

What was the Battle of Hastings?

Answer 9

William Duke of Normandy landed with an army with some people from Brittany, Flanders and settled in England

Question 10

Who was king in 1043?

Answer 10

Edward the Confessor had lived in Normandy for 25 years and his mother was a Norman, he appointed a Norman Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 11

What happened in 1066 with the throne?

Answer 11

> both Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy claimed the English throne
William defeated Harold at Hastings and conquered the whole of England over the next few years
he promised land and wealth to the nobles who joined his invasion force and honoured the promise
he gave them land that once belonged to the Anglo-Danish lords so they were major landholders in England

Question 12

What percent of the population in England were the Norman migrants?

Answer 12

> 5% but they had an impact on the country’s language, culture and political instituitions
political and economic control of England almost passed entirely to the Normans and their allies from France

Question 13

How did the Normans change England?

Answer 13

> William consolidated the feudal system that was already developing before 1066
he seized the land from Anglo-Danish lords and gave it to his Norman lords
took control of tax and justice sstems but didn’t change much
set up Domesday survey to record land and landowners
abolished slavery
made surnames to show people’s jobs or where they migrated from

Question 14

When was the Domesday survey set up?

Answer 14

1085

Question 15

What did the Domesday survey show about the percent of people who were slaves?

Answer 15

about 10% were slaves

Question 16

When was the unsuccessful invasion from the Anglo-Danish and who led it?

Answer 16

1069 led by King Sweyn of Denmark

Question 17

Who were the silvatici and who was the most famous?

Answer 17

‘green men’ they were the anti-colonial resitance fighters of the forests
>English landholder Hereward who based his guerrilla operations in the fens of the Isle of Ely

Question 18

What is mudrum and why was it introduced?

Answer 18

> a special law dating from the time of the Danes because it was so dangerous
if a Norman was assassinated a collective fine was imposed on all those living in the area unless the murderer was caught within 5 days

Question 19

How did William the Conqueror deal with rebellions with his rule?

Answer 19

> through violence-in 1069 he responded to a rebellion in the North by burning and destroying the rebels land and crops which was known as the Harrying of the North and deprived rebels of a livelihood
another way was