Dark Ages

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another.

• inventive

• ascendance

• pagan

• hereditary

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society.

• illiterate

• inventive

• assimilation

• ascendance

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

unable to read or write

• inventive

• hereditary

• ascendance

• illiterate

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

(of a person) having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally

• hereditary

• inventive

• ascendance

• assimilation

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The English language seems to begin when who leaves Britain?

• The Romans

• The Angles

• The Saxons

• The Jutes

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Which of the following is NOT one of the three tribes who formed the Anglo-Saxons?

• Angles

• Saxons

• Jews

• Jutes

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What was the official language of the church that was spoken by Christian missionaries?

• English

• Latin

• Flemish

• Spanish

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Why do we know so little about the people of this era?

• A great fire destroyed all the records.

• Records were kept in a language that modern historians can not decode.

• The people of this time period were illiterate, so historical records were not written down.

• Computer databases do not go back that far.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is the main reason the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms came and went so quickly?

• Tribes were always at war with other tribes, and kings were defeated and replaced frequently.

• Voting took place at the end of each month.

• A warrior could not become king until he was old, and people did not live long lives during this time period.

• A rule was put in place that stated a king could not serve more than one year on the throne.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is the social structure of Anglo-Saxon society from top to bottom?

• king, lower class ceorls, upper class thanes, slaves

• upper class thanes, lower class ceorls, king, slaves

• slaves, upper class thanes, lower class ceorls, king

• king, upper class thanes, lower class ceorls, slaves

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4