Life in the UK- History

Question 1

Who were the first people to live in the Stone age?

Answer 1

Hunter-gatherers

Question 2

What connected England to the continent?

Answer 2

A landbridge

Question 3

When did Britain become permanently separated from the continent by the Chanel?

Answer 3

10,000 years ago

Question 4

What is the UK made up of?

Answer 4

England, Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland,

Question 5

What is Great Britain made up of?

Answer 5

England, Scotland, Wales

Question 6

Which 2 Islands are closely linked to the UK?

Answer 6

Chanel Islands and Isle of man

Their governments are called crown dependencies

Question 7

Which British territories are linked to the UK but not part of it?

Answer 7

St Helena

The Falkland Islands.

Question 8

When did the first farmers arrive in the UK?

Answer 8

6,000 years ago

Question 9

Where did the ancestors of the first farmers arrive from?

Answer 9

Southeast Europe

Question 10

What did the first farmers of the UK build?

Answer 10

houses
tombs
monuments

Question 11

What was the Stonehenge?

Answer 11

gathering place for seasonal ceremonies

Question 12

What is the name of the best prehistoric village in northern Europe?

Answer 12

Shara Brea

Question 13

How many years ago did people learn to make bronze?

Answer 13

4000 years ago

Question 14

In the bronze age, which type of houses did people live in and where did they bury the dead?

Answer 14

In roundhouses

the dead were buried in round barrows

Question 15

What job did the people of the bronze age have?

Answer 15

They were metal workers

Question 16

What came after the bronze age?

Answer 16

the iron age- this is when people made weapons and tools from iron

Question 17

Where did people live in the iron age

Answer 17

Roundhouses grouped by large settlements - hill forts

Seen in Dorset

Question 18

In which age made the first coins to be minted in britian?

Answer 18

Iron age

Question 19

When did Julius Caeser lead the Roman invasion in Britain?

Answer 19

55BC

Question 20

For how many years did Britain remain separated from the Royal empire?

Answer 20

100 years ago

Question 21

In AD 43, who led the Royal army in a new invasion?

Answer 21

Emperor Claudius

Question 22

Name one of the tribal leaders who fought against the Romans.

Answer 22

Boudicca

Question 23

What did the Romans build?

Answer 23

roads and public buildings

Question 24

When did the first Christian communities begin to appear in Britain?

Answer 24

during the 3rd and 4th centuries

Question 25

Which tribed invaded Britain in AD 410?

Answer 25

The Jutes The Angles The Saxons The spoke English

Question 26

When were Anglo-Saxon invaders established in Britian?

Answer 26

AD 600

Question 27

Where did missionaries from Ireland preach?

Answer 27

In north

Question 28

Where did the Vikings come from?

Answer 28

Denmark Norway Sweden

Question 29

When did the Vikings first visit Britain?

Answer 29

AD 789

Question 30

Then Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in England united under which king

Answer 30

King Alfred the Great

Question 31

Who defeated the Vikings?

Answer 31

king Alfred the great

Question 32

Where in England did the viking invaders stay?

Answer 32

Danelaw

Question 33

Which king did the people unite under, after the threat of attack by Vikings?

Answer 33

Kenneth MacAlpin

Question 34

Who led an invasion in 1066?

Answer 34

William, Duke of Normandy

Question 35

Who did Willian kill in the invasion?

Answer 35

Harold, the Saxon king of England. He then became William the conqueror.

Question 36

Where was the battle between Harold and William commemorated?

Answer 36

Bayeux Tapestry

Question 37

What was the name of the last successful foreign invasion of England?

Answer 37

The norman conquest

Question 38

Who influences the development of the English language?

Answer 38

Norman French

Question 39

What is the Domesday Book?

Answer 39

The summary William the conqueror (aka William I) made of the society in England.

Question 40

Who did the English kings fight against for control of their lands?

Answer 40

Welsh, Scottish and Irish nobleman

Question 41

In 1284, what was the name of the statute that King Edward I of England introduced?

Answer 41

Statute of Rhuddlan

Question 42

In what century were the last welsh rebellions defeated?

Answer 42

15th century

Question 43

In what year did the Scottish, led by Bruce and Robert defeat the English at the battle of the Bannockburn?

Answer 43

1314

Question 44

In 1200, the English ruled an area known as what?

Answer 44

The Pale

Question 45

What was the name of the long war which the English kings fought with France?

Answer 45

The Hundred Years war

Question 46

What was the famous battle of the hundred years of war and in what year did it happen?

Answer 46

the battle of Agincourt in 1415

Question 47

The Normans used a system of land ownership known as what?

Answer 47

Feudalism

Question 48

In what year did the plague (the black death) come to Britain and how many people died from the black plague in Scotland and wales?

Answer 48

1348 | One third died

Question 49

Describe what happened in the black death:

Answer 49

``` a small portion of the population less need for crop growth peasants wanted more wages new social classes- called Gentry People went from the countryside to towns Plague killed many in the Pale ```