Geography
This country is an ________________ location which aided in trade.
What is an island?
Important members of ancient Britain from a priestly class.
Who are the Druids?
These could churn up land far more quickly and deeply than older wooden or bronze ones, and iron axes could clear forest land far more efficiently for agriculture.
What are iron-tipped plows?
These played important secular roles such as advising the king, witnessing legal transactions, and administering landholdings of the church, which could be exceedingly large.
Who are higher church officials?
This main economy of ancient Englishmen was seen by the cattle and horses of the wealthy. The bountiful cereal crops, vegetables, hides and leather.
What is agricultural economy?
The land bridge provided a way for early inhabitants to move between the two areas.
Druids fulfilled these roles after years of education and memorizing oral traditions.
What are judges, scholars, and teachers?
Church buildings were made of this material, but this was not true of domestic buildings.
What is stone?
The term for the early English that assimilated with other migrating people groups including the Celts, Picts, Angles, and Scot.
Who are the Britons?
These settlers moved into the western Highlands from Ireland in the 4th century.
The structure that stretched 73 miles across northern England consisting of a 15-foot high stone wall behind a V-shaped ditch, began construction in AD 122 and was completed the end of the decade.
What is Hadrian's Wall?
The only national entity tying together the different Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
These were vital centers of learning and the arts until they were destroyed by the Viking raids of the 9th century.
The son of a Welsh king during the Roman occupation. Legend states that the departing Roman army asked this king to protect Britons from the warring Anglo-Saxons.
Who is King Arthur?
London Bridge is falling down came from this event.
What is pulling down the London Bridge because Viking ships were having trouble rowing up the Thames during the Viking attack in 1013.
The Antonine Wall spanned to this country.
What is now Glasgow, Scotland?
The church was the only forum for this and were encouraged by Alfred the Great.
What is education?
In 1042, King Edward the Confessor began work on this great structure to symbolically pull together the Christian Church and the state.
What is the Abbey at Westminster?
Britons lived in these groups and their rule was by this figure.
What are organized tribal groups and ruled by a chieftain?
The invasion of these people groups was made more effective by the extensive Roman road system and English natural river system and were able to conquer more of England than the Romans.
Who were the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes?
Location of Hadrian's Wall on the map.
What is Northern England?
This early work in the 7th and 8th centuries were not confined to a closed community, but carried the responsibility of traveling, usually on foot, throughout the surrounding countryside to preach and convert in the villages.
What is spreading the Gospel?
Venerable Bede, a contemporary of the author of Beowulf is best known for this work.
What is Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a source vital to the history of the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon people?
The most famous Anglo-Saxon king who defended Anglo-Saxon England from Viking raids, formulated a code of laws, and fostered a rebirth of Christian scholarly activity.
Who is Alfred the Great?
The emperor who increased Roman control on Britain but was unable to stop indigenous Britons from harassing his legions and citizens.
Who was Emperor Claudius?