British history

The Celts

• ...built small villages called 'castra'.

• A.     ...lived only in Britain.

• ...were never a united nation.

• ... believed in Christianity.

Which is true?

• The Romans built many stone circles all over the British Isles.

• They left Britain in 410 BCE.

• Hadrian's Wall was built to protect the Roman territory from the Scottish Celtic tribes.

Which is true?

• The Anglo-Saxons received Christianity.

• The Anglo-Saxon society kept the slave system taken over from the Romans.

• Alfred the Great fought the Normans who attacked Britain in the 8th century CE.

In 1066...

• ...the Viking Harold Hardrada from Scandinavia became the English king.

• ...the battle of Hastings was fought between the Normans and the Anglo-Saxon army of king Harold Godwinson.

• ...the Tower of London was founded.

After the Norman conquest...

• ...French was spoken by all the people of England.

• ...William the Conqueror could not govern the country very efficiently.

• ...a lot of the Anglo-Saxon nobles were killed or driven away.

Magna Carta ...

• ...was signed by John Lackland in 1215.

• ...meant that the king could do whatever he wanted.

• ...was a document that the king wanted to use against his barons.

The Hundred Year War...

• ...was a conflict in which our king Charles IV died with his father, John of Luxembourgh, in the battle of Crécy.

• ...was won by the English in the end.

• ...was led by the English kings because they wanted to own French territories and get the French crown.

After the Hundred Year War...

• ...there was a long period of peace in England.

• ....two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty struggled for power.

• ...in 1485 a new dynasty started - the Stuarts.

Henry VIII...

• ...was important because he became the head of the English Church in 1534.

• ...was important because he was able to kill a lot of women.

• ...was important because he conquered a large portion of France.

During the Golden Age under Elizabeth I...

• ...Spanish Armada invaded England because their navy was better than the English one.

• ...Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers created their works, sponsored by the queen.

• ...England became a Catholic superpower again.