Random Stuff
What does the Pope mean in latin?
Papa/Father/Daddy
I'm 6 foot 4 inches tall
Charlemagne
Built a wall to cut off the Welsh
King Offa
Who invaded and wiped us out?
Vikings
_________ became royal and religious center
Winchester
_____________ - a person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main/recognized religions.
Pagan
_______________ was the amount paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed.
Wergild
_________________ (626-655): Last major pagan Anglo-Saxon ruler
King Penda
King ______ (616-633) and King ________ (634-642)
Edwin and Oswald
Conversion to Christianity (Catholic) under ____________ (635)
Birinus
Im the only one standing after Viking attacks!!!
Wessex
Our social system is mainly a ___________ .
Feudal System (Hierarchy)
Created first regular English ______________
silver penny
_______________ monastery established 635 CE
Lindisfarne
______________ was the first king of a unified England and one of the most powerful rulers in 10th-century Europe.
Aethlesten
Main Religion across Europe at the time
Roman Catholic Church
The Frankish kingdom was established by ______________, a strong military leader who around 500 became the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity.
Clovis
Main trade product
Wool
"____________" under King Oswald - religious and cultural flowering
Golden Age
Wessex Under _________________ (871-899) Defeated Vikings at Battle of Edington (878)
Alfred the Great
Who burns the woman's bread?
Alfred
His efforts led to an intellectual revival sometimes called the __________________, or rebirth.
Carolingian Renaissance
_______ this lifestyle was normal in Mercia. (Type of job)
Agrarian (farming/agg)
a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.
Monasteries
Greatest King to reign
King Egbert