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English Politics
What's In A Name?
The Battle of Hastings
In The Beginning
100

This document paved the way for Parliament

What was the Magna Carta?

100

The land areas in England was divided into these

What are shires?

100

The Conqueror

Who is William?

100

The Battle of Hastings was fought between armies led by these two men

Who were King Harold Goodwin and William the Conqueror?

100

The name England comes from this Germanic people group

Who were the Angles?

200

This document was a record of land ownings

What was the Domesday (Doomsday) Book?

200

This was the term used to refer to the four-fold ways justice was once determined

What is Trial by Ordeal?

200

The Confessor

Who was Edward?

200

This was the month and year the winner of the Battle of Hastings was crowned King of England

What is December 1066?

200

The word "sheriff" comes from the arrangement of English territories

What is shire-reeve?

300

Although it had no written words, it did detail a famous battle

What was the Bayeux Tapestry?

300

This English king was in power when the Magna Carta was written

Who is King John?

300

The Archbishop of Canterbury

Who was Thomas a Becket?

300

According to many historians, this is how the losing king died

What is being hit by an arrow in the eye?

300

The Duke of Normandy who invaded England

Who was William the Conqueror?

400

This document limited the power of the king

What was the Magna Carta?

400

King John continually battled against this pope

Who was Pope Innocent III?

400

The Lion-Hearted

Who was Richard I?

400

The winning king sought this person's approval to go to war

Who was the pope?

400

These two "houses" make up the first democratic expression of English rule

What is the House of Lords and the House of Commons?

500

This type of document excluded a person from the church

What is excommunication?

500

This English king famously ruled in his brother's absence

Who was king John?

500

Longshanks

Who was Edward I

500

The winning king based his right to be king of England on the deathbed declaration of this person

Who was Edward the Confessor?

500

This Viking king conquered England in the early years

Who as the Danish king Canute?

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