Early Britain
Norse Invaders and the Middle Ages
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
100
Old heroic poem where the villain is called Grendel
What is Beowulf
100
They invaded Britain in the 8th and 9th century
Who were the vikings (the Danes and the Norwegians)
100
This event attempted to conquer England and restore Catholicism in 1588
What was the Spanish Armada?
100
The two countries that King James I ruled
What are England and Scotland?
100
They lived in America before the arrival of the French and the British
Who were the Indians?
200
A person from Jutland
What is a Jute?
200
The official language after the Norman Conquest
What is Norman French
200
Queen Elizabeth I kept to a middle way between the Catholics and the extreme Protestants.
How did Elizabeth I manage to keep peace in England?
200
King James I's number in Scotland
What is VI (six)
200
This year lasted for 8 years
What is the Revolutionary War?
300
The century in which the missionaries started telling the British people about Christianity?
What is the 6th century?
300
It killed a third of the English population in 1348
What is the Black Death?
300
William Shakespeare did this when he was 49
When did William Shakespeare retire?
300
The year that Oliver Cromwell died
What is 1658?
300
The farmers began to move to the cities and work in the factories after this event
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
The great prehistoric monument in Wilshire
What is Stonehenge?
400
The three languages that were used in Britain in the Middle Ages
What is English, French, and Latin
400
This famous play by William Shakespeare is about a Danish prince
What is Hamlet?
400
The ruler after the death of Oliver Cromwell
Who was King Charles II
400
Two of the great British thinkers of the 18th century
Who are John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Adam Smith
500
They invaded Britain between 2000 and 1200 BC and their language and customs are still present today
Who were the Celts/Celtic tribes
500
The number of verses in the Canterbuty Tales that is written in prose
What is two?
500
The daughter of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
500
The year of the Great Fire of London
What is 1666?
500
In 1707 this treaty united the kingdoms of England and Scotland
What is the Act of Union?
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