The Celts
A member of the high-ranking class in ancient Celtic cultures.
Who was a Druid?
The first invasion of Britain by the Romans.
What happened in 55 BC?
The Anglo-Saxon religion.
pagans
The most famous date in English history.
1066
The dominant English export.
wool
The name of a Celtic form of settlement.
What was a hill fort?
The Roman conquest of Britain.
What happened in 43 AD?
The early Anglo-Saxon culture.
warrior culture
The decisive battle between the English and the Normans.
The Battle of Hastings.
The social and political system introduced by the Normans.
feudalism
The religion of the Celts (worshipping a variety of goddesses and gods).
What is polytheism?
He conquered Britain.
What did Emperor Claudius do in 43 AD?
The first king of the English as a people.
Alfred the Great
The name of the person who conquered the Anglo-Saxon kingdom.
Duke William of Normandy
Structures constructed in order to control territories.
castles
Britain's metal resources the British traded with.
tin, copper, gold
The Romans introduced these crops in Britain.
cherry, wine grape
A record of current events kept in Anglo-Saxon.
What was the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
The inventory of all the productive land in the kingdom.
The Domesday survey/ The Domesday Book.
It was built in London to control the new capital city.
the Tower of London
The name of a stone megalithic circle larger but less known than Stonehenge.
What is Avebury famous for?
The widow of the king of the Iceni who led a rebellion against the Romans.
Who was Boudicca?
The meaning of the Anglo-Saxon term 'Welsh'.
foreigner
Strong ties to this language, culture and politics.
French.
Cavalrymen - the aristocratic class of the new England.
knights