Chapter 13

Question 1

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 1

Norway

Question 2

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 2

Paris

Question 3

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 3

Rouen

Question 4

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 4

Seine River

Question 5

Find Norway.

Answer 5

Question 6

Find Paris

Answer 6

Question 7

Find Rouen

Answer 7

Question 8

Find the Seine River.

Answer 8

Question 9

raided Britain and northern Europe for over two centuries

Answer 9

Norsemen

Question 10

Icelander; established short-lived colony in Labrador

Answer 10

Leif the Lucky (Leif Eriksson)

Question 11

led raiding parties up the Seine

Answer 11

Rollo

Question 12

established what became the duchy of Normandy

Answer 12

Rollo

Question 13

king of France; made peace with Rollo and granted him and his people the Normandy territory

Answer 13

Charles the Simple

Question 14

“Let us make ourselves homes here, and I and my Vikings will become your vassals.”

Answer 14

Rollo

Question 15

“Never will I bend my knee before any man and no man’s foot will I kiss.”

Answer 15

Rollo

Question 16

demonstration of allegiance to a feudal lord

Answer 16

homage

Question 17

agricultural peasant; member of the lowest feudal class

Answer 17

serf

Question 18

subject of a feudal lord

Answer 18

vassal

Question 19

What territory in France did Rollo acquire, and what was required of him in return?

Answer 19

Rollo’s grant was the territory now called Normandy. Rollo was obliged to hold and show allegience to the king, and to provide troops for the king’s army in times of war.

Question 20

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 20

Britain

Question 21

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 21

Wales

Question 22

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 22

Ireland

Question 23

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 23

Wessex

Question 24

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 24

the North Sea

Question 25

Identify the location on the map.

Answer 25

(English) Channel

Question 26

Find Britain.

Answer 26

Question 27

Find Wales.

Answer 27

Question 28

Find Ireland.

Answer 28

Question 29

Find Wessex.

Answer 29

Question 30

Find the North Sea

Answer 30

Question 31

Find the (English) Channel.

Answer 31

Question 44

first king to rule England as a united kingdom

Answer 44

Egbert the Saxon

Question 45

chiefs of the Jutes; early Germanic settlers in England

Answer 45

Hengist and Horsa

Question 46

legendary and partly mythical Briton king

Answer 46

King Arthur

Question 47

resisted Anglo-Saxon invasions

Answer 47

King Arthur

Question 48

missionary who spread Christianity in Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions

Answer 48

St. Patrick

Question 49

“Oh, they would be angels instead of Angels if they were only Christians, for they certainly have the faces of angels.”

Answer 49

the monk Gregory

Question 50

solving dispute; making peace of friendship

Answer 50

conciliation

Question 51

How did Egbert end up at the court of Charlemagne?

Answer 51

Egbert claimed the kingship of Wessex, but the people supported another man. Egbert fled to Charlemagne.

Question 52

How did this experience influence him and affect English history?

Answer 52

Egbert was impressed by and learned from the many innovations of Charlemagne. He returned to England and established there, the sytem of Charlemagne. He persuaded or forced the petty kings to recognize his rule as the first king of a unified England.