The Conquest of Britain
The Coming of Christianity
Lancaster, Yorks, & Tudors
The Norman conquest
Planta and magna
100
By providing counsel to quarreling rulers. The church also promoted peace.
How would the coming of Christianity help unify the English people?
100
Henry Tudor
Who led the rebellion against the unpopular Yorkist king, Richard the third and killed him?
100
They were descendants of Vikings who invaded the coast of France in the ninth century.
What is The Normans were descendants of who and what did they do?
100
Not to tax land without first meeting with the barons.
How might the King promise the Magna Carta?
200
The Britons and Geal settled on Ireland, two groups of Celts from southern Europe invaded the British.
What is the sighnificance of the Conquest of British?
200
Christianity
By the 4th century Romans had accepted which religion?
200
Small parcels of land.
What did king William give to the knights in return for their services?
200
Legal matters
Why might have Henry had direct conflict with the church.
300
They wasn't trying to conquer the English, only to expand their land.
What is the significance of the Anglo-Saxons?
300
The Norse of Norway and The Danes of Denmark.
What two groups were included in the Danish Invasion?
300
The danes forced the Danish king upon England and after the death of the king Edward the Danes had forced the Saxons from power.
How did Danish rule effect the demise of the Saxons?
300
William was the heir to the English thrown, but when Edward "the confessor" died, the Saxon elders chose Harold the second to be king.
The battle of Hastings took place near a villi age in southern England, and a victorious William, duke of Normandy. What caused the battle of hastings?
300
Staging military expeditions
How did King Richard the first spend most of his reign?
400
They became more sophisticated and disciplined
What happend to the conquerors as the conquest of britaian took such a long period of time?
400
South and Eastern England
Who did the Danish invasion affect?
400
Alfred the great was a Wessex king, and he earned his title by valiantly defending England against further Danish encroachment.
Who was Alfred the great and how did he earn his title?
400
He suppressed the Anglo-Saxon nobility, confiscated lands, and made sure governments and businesses were conducted in Norman French or Latin.
What impact did William have on England?_
400
It ended when Henry Plantagent, count of Anjou, came to the throne as Henry the second.
Why might the Norman rule have ended in 1154?
500
He worked to preserve pre Danish culture, and also encouraged learning and education
What achievements did Alfred have off of the battlefield?
500
They took religious objects, stole from monasteries, oppressed the villagers, and destroyed manuscripts
How did the Viking invaders conquer England?
500
House of Lancaster
What house replaced the Plantagenets on the throne?
500
The royal family struggled for supremacy.
How would the decline do the Feudal System effect social structure?
500
They believed its restrictions on royal power marked the beginning of the constitutional government in England.
What Might historians think about the King promising not to tax land without first meeting with the barons.
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