January and February
March
April
Vocabulary / Geography
Vocabulary Review
100
The "foundation of life" for people in England in the Year 1000.
What is the wheeled plough / plow?
100
The title of the March chapter.
What is Heads for Food?
100
The title of the April chapter.
What is Feasting?
100
A conversation, exchange, dialogue. (March)
What is a colloquy?
100
Writing about and studying the lives of saints.
What is hagiography?
200
In 2014, the United Kingdom is made up of these four parts.
What are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
200
The number of modern English villages that existed in the Year 1000.
What is almost all of them?
200
Because of limited supply, these were only consumed in church on special holidays like Easter, Christmas and Whitsun (Whit Sunday / Pentecost).
What are bread and wine?
200
The windows used in typical homes -- wooden structures with thatched roofs. (March)
What are wattle shutters?
200
Twist or squirm, as in pain or discomfort.
What is writhe?
300
This calendar is the framework for our text.
What is the Julius Work Calendar?
300
Anglo-Saxon suffixes for villages included -ing, -stowe, -stead and two others listed in your book.
What are -ham and -ton?
300
Fishermen used brushwood to construct these --- wide, fixed funnel-shaped networks of basket work put in the water to collect fish.
What is a weir?
300
A tool that is part ax and part digging and grubbing tool. (March)
What is a mattock?
300
Numerous and varied; having different parts, features, elements, etc.
What is manifold?
400
The Year 1000 was an age of faith and these relics were an important part of their faith.
What are the bones of saints?
400
Common surnames during the Year 1000.
What is there were no surnames in the Year 1000?
400
Known for its soothing and restorative powers, then and now.
What is chicken soup?
400
The flesh of mature sheep used for food.
What is mutton?
400
A deadly or virulent (strong) epidemic disease; something destructive.
What is pestilence?
500
Spell the German word for horse.
What is P-f-e-r-d?
500
The economic system in the Year 1000 relied on this resource and the social system was one of protector and protected.
What is slave labor?
500
Anglo-Saxon teacher, author, nicknamed Grammaticus, wrote "Lives of the Saints", mentioned often in our text because of his schoolroom dialogues.
Who was Aelfric?
500
Iceland and four other countries make up what we consider Scandinavia. (The Faroe Islands and Greenland belong to one of them.)
What are Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway?
500
Long, flat, iron blades, like a hand-held plowshare (the part that cuts the furrow)
What are serps?
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