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100
This group were the first to colonize the British Isles in 55 CE.
Who are the Romans?
100
This famous major work of literature shows the philosophy during the Anglo Saxon Era
What is Beowulf?
100
Most Medicinal Science during the Anglo Saxon era was based on this.
What is superstition?
100
One of the classes of Anglo-Saxon England, it gave birth to a modern ranking of the nobility - like Duke, perchance.
What is Eorl?
100
This piece of Anglo-Saxon literature is the reason we have many of these clues.
What are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles?
200
The name given to the organization of kingdoms into 7 - 4 major kingdoms, 3 minor kingdoms.
What is Heptarchy?
200
Often called gleemen, professional these were common at both large and small gatherings during the Anglo-Saxon era.
What are musicians?
200
Most architectural knowledge was coopted by the Anglo-Saxons from these original settlers.
Who are the Romans?
200
Though the Anglo-Saxon society was this, women were still granted far more rights than they would be given in other time periods.
What is patriarchal?
200
Oftentimes used in Anglo-Saxon literature, women were referred to as "peace-weavers" or "cup-bearers", an example of this.
What are kennings?
300
The rise of this king in 1066 marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon period.
Who is William the Conqueror/William of Normandy?
300
This form of Anglo-Saxon art was found in toilet implements, weapons, tools, and gold jewelry.
What is Metalworking?
300
A common practice in the Anglo-Saxon era was this, a medical procedure that lasted well into the 17th and 18th century.
What is bloodletting?
300
These people worked as sheriffs and imposed law and tax.
Who are Upper Thanes?
300
The number of lines of poetry scholars say exists from this time period.
What is 30,000?
400
This was the only Anglo-Saxon kingdom to survive the Viking invasions.
What is Wessex?
400
This was supplemented to many texts in many different forms of art.
What is Manuscript Illumination?
400
The metal workers used this tool to create silver or copper jewelry.
What are clay molds?
400
Women in Anglo-Saxon England could defend themselves on oath against false accusations, which meant that they were this under the eyes of the law.
What is oath worthy?
400
The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) was written around 731 CE by this famed scribe.
Who is Bede?
500
This was a system developed by King Alfred the Great - it used forts in a tax collection, oftentimes with hides.
What is the Burghal Hidage?
500
This was a common six stringed instrument played during the Anglo-Saxon period.
What is the lyre?
500
This created the fear and superstition of "sea Dragons" in neighboring kingdoms or villages.
What are ships?
500
The institution of this system of inheritance meant that for once, siblings would not be equal in Anglo-Saxon England.
What is primogeniture?
500
Since there were no true historians, oftentimes poets and these people who sung/recited works of literature were referred to as the first "historians"
Who are harpists?