Britains Earliest Immigrants

Question 1

When did the celts settle in britain?

Answer 1

Around 500bc

Question 2

What were the celts tribes like?

Answer 2

Tribes often fought brutally with each other

Question 3

What were the celts main job

Answer 3

Farmers

Question 4

What kind of musical instrument sis the celts introduce to britain?

Answer 4

Introduced bagpipes

Question 5

What kind of defense did the celts use?

Answer 5

Forts

Question 6

How was tribal business done?

Answer 6

Yearly, things like accused criminals and appointing people

Question 7

What were celt priests(druids) in charge of?

Answer 7

In charge of religious rituals

Question 8

When did the romans arrive in Britain?

Answer 8

43 ad from Rome and stay for 400 years

Question 9

When the roman army left Britain many stayed….

Answer 9

Behind with there local wives

Question 10

What was the roman army made out of?

Answer 10

Gauls(France), Germans, hungarians and africans

Question 11

Important roman towns today?

Answer 11

Chester, york, St albans, bath, gloucester, lincoln, colchester

Question 12

What THINGS did the romans introduce to Britain?

Answer 12

Calendars, coins, glass and bricks

Question 13

What FOOD did the romans introduce

Answer 13

Cabbages,peas,wine,apples,grapes,turmips,carrots and cats

Question 14

When did the Angles and Saxons begin arriving

Answer 14

In 450ad

Question 15

How did the Anglo Saxons invade?

Answer 15

In small groups from Denmark and northern Germany and the jutes from northern Germany

Question 16

What did the Anglo-Saxons change the Celtic tribes into?

Answer 16

Wales, Cornwall, Cumbria and Scotland

Question 17

What was Englands name for the saxons?

Answer 17

Angle-land later england

Question 18

What towns come from the anglo-saxons?

Answer 18

Towns ending in ton,wich,worth,burn,worth,hurst,ham

Question 19

When did the vikings arrive?

Answer 19

After 800ad from denmark,norway and sweden.

Question 20

Ehat were the vikings looking for when they got to britain?

Answer 20

For land to settle on but also for loot like the anglomsaxons

Question 21

Where did the Vikings take over?

Answer 21

Took over much of north and east of britain, places eneding in ‘by’ and ‘thorpe’ were named by vikings

Question 22

What year and what king was a viking in?

Answer 22

King Cnut in 1016

Question 23

When did the normans arrive?

Answer 23

From normandy (france) after 1066

Question 24

What did the normans control ?

Answer 24

England and whales

Question 25

What did the normans fail to take over?

Answer 25

Scotland and ireland

Question 26

The normans built what?

Answer 26

Fine castles, churches and csthedrals that still stand today.

Question 27

How many words in our dictionaries come from the normans?

Answer 27

10,000 words. Like, royal, soldier, city, parliament, prince

Question 28

What kind of names did the normans introduce?

Answer 28

William, stephen, emma, alice and robert

Question 29

What did the normans do with our names?

Answer 29

They added surnames

Question 30

What games did the normans introduce?

Answer 30

Chess and conkers

Question 31

What animals did the normans introduce?

Answer 31

Deer,pheasants and rabbits

Question 32

The normans introduced 3 things to do with our living lives. What are they?

Answer 32

New laws, traditions and customs still in use today.