Ch 13 Flashcards
The movement became most evident in___] were circumstances tended toward unity
England and France, Spain, and Portugal
Among the earliest known inhabitants of the British Isles, where the____ Descendants of people from the European mainland
Keltz
The_____ a special group of Celtic men who acted as teachers judges in priest, conducted religious ceremonies which included human sacrifice
Druids
____ a mysterious monument that still stands in southern England may have been an ancient Celtic worship site and observatory
Stonehenge
By ad 45____ had become a Providence of the Roman empire
Britannia
Surely after Roma abandoned Britain in the fifth century A.D. waves of_____ Germanic tribes, began to arrive from the region south of Denmark
Ingles Saxons, and jute
The Celtic language still survives to some extent, as does the whimsical music of the Celts and Celtic heroes like the legendary______ are remembered in poetry and prose
King Arthur
The Jets angles and Saxons, who conquered Britain were collectively called
Angelo Saxon’s
The angles gave their name to the southern part of Britain______ or ___ and to the English language that developed over the centuries
Angle land, England
The early Saxons were renowned for their wandering poets or____ who devised long poems about war heroes enchanted them to their tribal chief for entertainment
Scops
The greatest Saxon poem that still remains____ gives us a good idea of the war like barbaric manners of the Angela Saxons
Beowulf
Who a missionary appointed by Paul Gregory the first in 596 began the enormous task of converting the Angelo Saxons to Roman Catholicism
Augustine
He eventually became the first______ the most influential church office in England
Archbishop of Canterbury
England officially accepted Romanism around_____ giving the English people, religious unity, and encouraging them to think of England as one country in spite of its many little kingdoms
664
Bede also wrote_____ now an important source of early British history and originated the BC/AD division of history
An ecclesiastical history of the English people
In the mid 800s a group of Vikings called the______ began to invade England
Danes
By 870 the Danes controlled most of England outside of the_____ in southern England, deleting Saxon Kingdom
Wessex
In the resulting treaty, Alfred continued the Danes to the north eastern portion of England an area called the
Danelaw
Alfred’s accomplishments earned him the title
Alfred the great
____ alfred helped in many ways to make England a great nation state
As the first grade king of England
He made Englishman aware of their common history through a running account of current event events the____ which continued to be written for 100s of years
Angelo Saxon chronicle
In 886 Alfred occupied____ an important town located on the same river in southern Britain
London
Under less competent leadership, England fell to new Viking invaders and in 1016____ became king of England
Canute the Dane 994-1035
In 1042 a Saxon King____ Returned to the throne of England with the help of the English nobles
Edward, the confessor
