Geography
This is what Angle Land is known as today
What is England
Important members of ancient Britain from a priestly class.
Who are the Druids?
This is the year that the Romans left Briton
What is 410
These Norse seafarers came from cold climates and were known for their fierce warrior abilities.
Who are the Vikings.
Most early England people groups claimed these two trades as their primary occupations.
Farming and fishing
This area in early England faced dangers like Vikings, famine, and disease and its name literally means North of the Humber (river).
What is North Umbria
Druids fulfilled these three roles after years of education and memorizing oral traditions.
What are judges, scholars, and teachers?
This is what "nit mar" sounds like today.
What is nightmare.
The term for the early English that assimilated with other migrating people groups including the Celts, Jutes, Angles, and the Saxons.
Who are the Britons?
These settlers were known as the "Children of the Underworld."
Who are the Celts?
Dumnonia , the land of the deep, was well known for its mining of what valuable metal?
What is tin?
The church was the only forum for this and was encouraged by Alfred the Great.
What is education?
Found and utilized by the Celts, this was used heavily in trade and is even referenced in the Bible.
What is salt.
As clans formed into tribes and people groups were conquered, what new system of hierarchy began taking hold?
What is a kingdom ruled by a king.
This fierce people group hailing from Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands helped form England by conquering multiple clans and tribes.
Who are the Anglo-Saxons.
Current day Gwynedd, the blessed land, is inhabited today by this people group.
Who are the Welsh.
This area was the first to accept Christianity and is recognized as the first to have an English king baptized as a Christian.
What is Kent.
Throughout the growth of early England, common values were held between the different people groups, which included a loyalty and respect of whom?
Who is tribal leaders or chieftains
These three dangers existed throughout early England and proved formidable foes to the struggling people groups trying to survive.
What are: raids/attacks/civil wars, disease/famine, terrain/weather
This famous phrase, "Better dead than slave," was made famous by this Germanic people group.
Who were the Frisians.
This area, now known as Dumbarton, Scotland, was originally named after the rock of Clyde.
What is Alt Clut.
This early work in the 7th and 8th centuries greatly impacted developing England and began changing the laws and practices of growing villages and forming towns.
What is the spreading the Gospel/ Christianity.
Venerable Bede, the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People is a contemporary of the author of what famous work?
What is Beowulf.
The invasion of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes was made more effective by the English natural river system, and this_____________, allowing them to conquer more of England than the Romans.
What is the extensive Roman road system.
Druids were well known story tellers and often used these to enhance their abilities.
What are instruments/ harps, bagpipes, fiddles.