Anglo Saxons Test

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The Celts were separated into two groups called:

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Gaels and Britons

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Gaels settled in _____.

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Ireland.

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Druids were PRIESTS who...

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settled disputes among chieftains, presided over religious rituals (sacrifices and prayers), and preserved the people's myths about the past by reciting long, heroic poems.

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Where were the Angles from?

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Southern Denmark

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Where were the Saxons from?

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northern Denmark and Germany

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When did the Anglo Saxons stage attacks on britain?

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5th Century

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Where did the name "England" come from?

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"Angles' land"

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What is a WITAN?

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council of elders

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A hereditary class of ruling warlords who owed their positioin to the king

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Earls

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Who were allowed to own land and engage in commerce?

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Freeman

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bounded servants who worked the land in return for military protection

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churls or serfs

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thralls were . . .

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slaves that were usually military prisoners or people being punished

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system of reciprocity establishing loyalty between a lord and his thane

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comitatus

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True or False: The Anglo-Saxons believed in only one god.

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They were pagan.

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Everyone was in the hands of fate or ____.

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Wyrd

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What did the early Anglo-Saxons believe in?

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ancient Germanic gods

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English history was recorded in ____ kept by monks

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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Anglo-Saxon literature flourished in :

the written or oral tradition?

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oral

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performers were professional minstrels known as

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scops

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mid-line pause

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caesura

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two categories of anglo-saxon verse

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heroic and elegiac

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heroic poetry recounted ____

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the deeds of warriors

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elegiac poetry lamented ___

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the deaths of loved ones and the loss of the past.

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first work to be composed in English

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Beowolf

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who was the author of beowolf?

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it was unknown.

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When did the Romans introduce Christianity to Britain?

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Fourth century

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Most of England was Christian by ____

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the end of the 7th century

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what brought education and written literature?

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Christians brought it.

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____ copied and illuminated manuscripts

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monks

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The language of church scholarship. The language that manuscrips were written in.

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Latin

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who was the "father of English history?

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the Venerable Bede, a northumbrian/benediction monk

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what was the Venerable Mede's most famous work?

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A History of the English Church and People

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Monumental work that offers the clearest account of the Anglo-Saxon times

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A History of the English Church and People by the Venerable Bede was...

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first English poet; said to have divine inspiration for his poetry from dreams

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Caedmon (7th century)

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has four surviving poems

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Cynewolf

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(by the middle of the 9th century) the territory, most of N, E, and Central England that had fallen to the Vikings was called

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Danelaw

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ascended the throne of Wessex in 871.

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Alfred the Great; or "The Great"

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Who translated Bede's History of the English Church and People from Latin to Anglo-Saxon

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Alfred the Great.

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Fostered the growth of the English language and its literature

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Alfred

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The last Anglo-Saxon king who was overthrowed

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Harold II

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what is an example of "Kenning"

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a compound metaphorical name for something such as "whale's path" for he sea.

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name one Danish contribution

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beer-brewing, moving goods to markets, trading centers, able to communicate easily with the english.

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canute...

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overthrew the Wessex dynasty, establishing Îanish rule until 1042

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after Edward died

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NORMAN conquest

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Timline: Celts

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1

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Timeline: Romans

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2

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Timeline: Anglo-Saxons

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3

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Timeline: Christianity

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4

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Timeline: Viking Invasion

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Timeline: truce to divide England

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Timeline: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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TImeline: Canute

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8

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Timeline: Edward the Confessor

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9

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Timeline: Edward died, Normn conquest

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