PPT - Test 5 - History of English

Question 1

4 major periods of English language

Answer 1

Old English 449-1066
Middle English 1066-1476
Early Modern English 1476-1776
Modern English 1776-present

Question 2

year/event for beginning of Old English period

Answer 2

449

Germanic invasions by various German tribes: Jutes, Anglos, Saxons

Question 3

year/event for beginning of Middle English period

Answer 3

1066
Norman invasion (William the Conqueror)

Question 4

year/event for beginning of Early Modern English period

Answer 4

1476

England’s first printing press, William Caxton, brought from Germany

Question 5

year/event for beginning of Modern English period

Answer 5

1776

Declaration of Independence in the U.S.