Dark Ages🕯️
This key historical event took place in the year 410, bringing an end to unified imperial rule in Britain.
What is the Fall of the Roman Empire?
Anglo-Saxon religion involved worshipping nature and these types of deities, such as Woden.
What are pagan gods?
The exact month and year in which the famous Battle of Hastings was fought.
What is October 1066?
The social, political, and economic system where people worked and fought for land and protection.
What is Feudalism?
The month and year the Magna Carta was signed in England.
What is June 1215?
This was the main reason the fall of the Roman Empire mattered to the people living in Britain.
What is having more freedom?
Would also accept no longer having to follow Roman rule?
Anglo-Saxon leaders were called this title because they were warlords and excellent military commanders.
What are chieftains?
This Anglo-Saxon leader was killed during the Battle of Hastings after being out-maneuvered.
Who is Harold Godwinson?
This group made up the very bottom level of the feudal social pyramid.
Who are the Peasants?
The English translation of the Latin phrase "Magna Carta."
What is "The Great Charter"?
After settling in England, this became the most common job for the Anglo-Saxon people.
What is farming?
This man was "chosen" by King Edward the Confessor to be the leader of Anglo-Saxon England.
Who was Harold Godwinson?
William the Conqueror was officially crowned King of England on this famous holiday in 1066.
What is Christmas Day?
This group occupied the very top of the feudal social pyramid.
Who is the king or queen?
Would also accept monarchy
The English monarch who signed the Magna Carta because he was scared for his life.
Who is King John?
The Anglo-Saxon period was also known by this name because of the lack of written records.
What is the Dark Ages?
William the Conqueror gathered an army and invaded England from this region in modern-day France.
What is Normandy?
King William created this survey and book to log all territorial claims and property in England.
What is the Domesday Book?
Positioned on the second level from the bottom, these warriors were protectors.
Who are the knights?
This group wrote the Magna Carta to prevent the monarch from exploiting his power.
Who are the English nobles?
The Anglo-Saxon language developed by combining these three distinct languages.
What are Latin, French, and German?
The modern-day island nation on the island of Great Britain where the Anglo-Saxon period took place.
What is England?
Would also accept UK
The strategic reason William the Conqueror was able to defeat Harold Godwinson at Hastings.
What is Harold's exhaustion from a rapid forced march and the decisive Norman tactic of simulated retreats that shattered the English shield wall?
Sitting directly below the monarch on the pyramid, this wealthy group owned large estates granted by the king.
Who are the nobles?
The core principle established by the Magna Carta stating that no one, not even the king, is above the law.
What is the Rule of Law?