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Anglo-Saxon Quiz Flashcards

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1
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Time of bloody conflicts, ignorance, violence, barbarism

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Dark Ages

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2
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First person to write about England

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Julius Caesar in 55 B.C.

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3
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Conquered and remained in Britain for over 300 years

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Romans

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4
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Original name given to England by Anglo-Saxons

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Angle-land

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5
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Spoken language of Anglo-Saxons

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Old English

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6
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Anglo-Saxon king who defeated Vikings

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Alfred the Great

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7
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A descendant of Alfred the Great, swore an oath making a French descendant his heir

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Edward the Confessor

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8
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Named Edward the Confessor’s heir

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William Duke of Normandy

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9
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Battle in which William the Conqueror killed Harold

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Battle of Hastings

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10
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Who’s conquest ended Anglo-Saxon dominance in England?

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Norman

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11
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What religion took hold of Britain in 300 A.D.

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Christianity

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12
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Who established a monastery at Canterbury?

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Augustine

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13
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Only opportunity for education

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Monasteries

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14
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Who earliest recorded history of English people came from

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Venerable Bede

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15
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Poem that provided measure of immortality

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Epic poem

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16
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Most famous surviving British epic

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Beowulf

17
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After Norman Conquest, England entered this

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Medieval period

18
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How did William the Conqueror bring tax and order to the land

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Doomsday Book

19
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Who took the throne after William the Conqueror?

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Henry Plantagenet (Henry II)

20
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Henry II’s son forced to sign Magna Carta

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King John

21
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War between England and France

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Hundred Years’ War

22
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Plague that killed third of England’s population

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Black Death

23
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Who fought in the War of Roses

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House of York (white rose) and House of Lancaster (red rose)

24
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Marked end of Middle Ages

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When Henry Tudor of Lancaster killed Richard III and took the throne as Henry VII.

25
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Chivalry

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Code of honor intended to govern knightly behavior

26
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Epic hero

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A larger-than-life hero who embodies the ideas of a nation or race

27
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Caesura

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A pause or break in a line of poetry

28
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Alliteration

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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

29
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Kenning

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Poetic synonyms (Germanic poems) meant to substitute nouns

Sin-stained demon

30
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Scop

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Professional poet

31
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Feudalism

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Political and economic system when William the Conqueror was King of England

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