The Viking Expansion, The Anglo-Saxons, and The Norman Conquest

Question 1

What 5 Countries consist of Scandinavia?

Answer 1

Finland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Iceland

Question 2

In what year did the Viking raids begin?

Answer 2

793 AD

Question 3

What were the people of Scandinavia called?

Answer 3

The Norse

Question 4

What was a nickname for Iceland?

Answer 4

The land of fire and ice

Question 5

How was Iceland goverened?

Answer 5

By a democratic republic

Question 6

What was Iceland’s democratic republic parliament called?

Answer 6

The Althing

Question 7

Describe the Eddas

Answer 7

The book of mythology and poetry

Question 8

Describe the Sagas

Answer 8

The book of long stories about ordinary Norse people and their feuds

Question 9

Who were the body guards of the Byzantine Emperors?

Answer 9

Vikings called the Varangian guard

Question 10

What poem was created based off of the sayings of the mythological god called Odin?

Answer 10

Hávamál

Question 11

The Norse of Iceland became “Christian” in the year…

Answer 11

1000 AD

Question 12

What three groups were part of the Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 12

Angles
Saxons
Jutes

Question 13

The Anglo Saxons invaded the island of:

Answer 13

Britain

Question 14

Britain was formerly settled by the:

Answer 14

Celts

Question 15

Who was the Anglo-Saxon scholar and historian who’s work is also our primary source?

Answer 15

Bede

Question 16

What is Bede’s nickname?

Answer 16

The Venerable Bede

Question 17

What book did Bede write?

Answer 17

“The Ecclesiastical History of the English People”

Question 18

What hymn was written in Old English (the language of the Anglo-Saxons)?

Answer 18

Caedmon’s Hymn

Question 19

Who were the Franks?

Answer 19

A “so-called” Barbarian tribe, ancestors of the French

Question 20

Who was Emperor Charlemagne

Answer 20

Power-hungry king of the Franks who conquered much of what used to be the Roman Empire

Question 21

What is Charlemagne’s name in English and in Latin?

Answer 21

Charles the Great
Carolus Magnus

Question 22

Who crowned Charlemagne as the Holy Roman Emperor?

Answer 22

The pope

Question 23

Why isn’t the Holy Roman Empire really that?

Answer 23

it was just a group of small states loyal to Charlemagne that mostly spoke German.
It wasn’t Holy, it wasn’t Roman, and it wasn’t an Empire.

Question 24

What name was given to Charlemagne?

Answer 24

The Father of Europe

Question 25

What did Charlemagne provide for the Holy Roman Empire?

Answer 25

Patronage to the arts – payment for someone else to create art or literature

Question 26

The period of time when Charlemagne provided Patronage to the arts

Answer 26

Carolingian Renaissance

Question 27

Who were the twins who supposedly founded the Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 27

Hengest and Horsa

Question 28

Who fought off the Vikings from England?

Answer 28

King Alfred the Great

Question 29

What was the group of people who became French and started speaking French?

Answer 29

The Normans

Question 30

Who was the last main king of the Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 30

St. Edward the Confessor

Question 31

When was the Battle of Hastings?

Answer 31

1066 AD

Question 32

Who won the Battle of Hastings?

Answer 32

The Normans

Question 33

What was the thing called that was the story of the Battle of Hastings but comic?

Answer 33

The Bayeux Tapestry

Question 34

What did William the Conqueror do after he conquered Britain?

Answer 34

He made a census of everyone and everything in his newly conquered territory and gathered it in a book called the Domesday Book.

Question 35

Middle English and the Great Vowel Shift

Answer 35

Middle English– in between Old English and Modern English

The Great Vowel shift – Vowels moved from the back of the mouth to the front

Question 36

The Canterbury Tales

Answer 36

A book written in Middle English