The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and where they came from.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What happened to the quality of life in Britain when the Romans left?
Life got better, then worse.
Life got much better.
Correct answer: Life got much harder.
Life stayed the same.
Q2.
Where is Beowulf set?
Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Correct answer: Life in medieval Denmark
Life in medieval France
Life in the Roman Empire
Q3.
Whose laws are the earliest to have survived that tell us a lot about Anglo-Saxon life?
King Alfred's
Correct answer: King Ine's
King Penda's
King William the Conqueror's
Q4.
What is the name of the group of important Anglo-Saxons who advised King Ine?
The Government
The Great Council
The Parliament
Correct answer: The Witan
Q5.
What was the wergeld?
Gold that was captured during war
The money paid to persuade the Vikings to leave.
The money paid to the king
Correct answer: The value of a person that varied depending on how important you were.

5 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following was not an Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
Mercia
Northumbria
Correct answer: Scotland
Wessex
Q2.
Which part of Europe was Kent connected to that made it more advanced than other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms?
Correct answer: Francia
Ireland
Scandinavia
Scotland
Q3.
What is Sutton Hoo a good example of?
Correct answer: A barrow
A farm
A home
A palace
Q4.
Penda was the king of which powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
Kent
Correct answer: Mercia
Northumbria
Wessex
Q5.
Northumbria was made up of which two smaller kingdoms?
Correct answer: Bernicia and Deira
Bernicia and East Anglia
Bernicia and Hwicce
Bernicia and Scotland

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