4. Anglo-Saxon Times (400-800 AD)

Question 1

Sub-Roman Britain
(date)

Answer 1

410-597

Question 2

Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy (date)

Answer 2

500-850

Question 3

Early Christian Ireland (date)

Answer 3

400-800

Question 4

Beginning of the Viking age in the British Isles (date):

Answer 4

800 !

Question 5

Foederati

Answer 5

Employment of Germanic tribes in the Roman army

Question 6

One who declared him self the Overlord of all Britain:

Answer 6

Vitalinus
(VORTIGERN)

Question 7

What did the Venerable Bede write?

Answer 7

The Church History of the English People
731

Question 8

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
(date-date)

Answer 8

891-1154

Question 9

Vortigern invites (499) Germanic Jutes led by… to KENT.

Answer 9

Legendary brothers:
-Hengest (Stallion)
-Horsa (Horse)

Question 10

After Hengest and Horsa (Jutes) help to defeat the Picts in Kent (449):

Answer 10

They stay & expand in Britain:
-the Angles and the Saxons follow them

Question 11

Who were Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 11

Jutes, Angles, Saxons:
-Germanic warrior bands
-pagan, barbarian

Question 12

“Dark Ages” (date):

Answer 12

450-600

Question 13

Characterise the “Dark Age” (450-600):

Answer 13

-expansion of Anglo-Saxons
-de-romanisation
-founding of Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms

Question 14

Old English is also called…

Answer 14

Anglo-Saxon

Question 15

Who resisted the Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 15

Ambrosius Aurelianus,
-Battle of Mount Badon (500/515)

Question 16

Between the 5-7 centuries, three cultural zones are established in sub-Roman Britain:

Answer 16

-Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
-British (Celtic) areas
-Irish Gaels

Question 17

Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were located in…

Answer 17

South-East of Great Britain

Question 18

Celtic (British) areas were located:

Answer 18

In the west and the north:
-Wales (Gwynedd, Powys, Gwent, Dyfed)
-Cornwall
Some Cornish Britons flee to Brittany

Question 19

Irish Gales lands:

Answer 19

-Kingdom of Dal Riada (Argyll)
-Isle of Man