Year 7 knowledge quiz 1. Anglo- Saxon, claimants and silk roads.

Put the following periods in chronological order

• Bronze Age

• Romans

• Homosapiens

• Anglo Saxons

• Celts

Match the statement with its answer

• 1,000

• Millenium

• C12th

• Decade

• 100 years

• century

• 10 years

• A date in the C19th

• 1845

• In which century is the date 1183

The council that advised the king on issues of government was called the (a)  

Label the Anglo Saxon social pyramid

a

b

c

d

e

f

peasant

enslaved people

free peasants

monarch

thegn

ceorl

How do we know about the Battle of Hastings?

• from Peter Frankopan's book

• The Bayeux Tapestry

• From Greek chronicles

Match the invaders and settlers with their descriptors.

• Introduced feudalism and the English language

• The Celts

• Raided coastal towns and traded with locals

• The Romans

• Built roads and established cities

• The Vikings

• Farmed the land and introduced Halloween

• The Anglo-Saxons

How long were the Silk Roads?

• Nearly 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometers)
• About 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers)
• Roughly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers)
• Approximately 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers)

Who was appointed king after the death of Edward the Confessor?

• William of Normandy

• Harold Hardrada

• Edgar Aethling

The battle of Fulford happened in ​ (a)   Harald ​ (b)   , king of ​ (c)   had landed in ​ (d)   in the North of ​ (e)   and wasn't leaving until the crown was his!

• 1066
• Hardrada
• Norway
• York
• England

Match the soldier with its description

• Peasant soldiers called to arms

• Housecarl

• Elite mounted warriors

• Norman foot soldiers

• Soldiers trained to shoot arrows

• The archers

• Infantry soldiers of Norman descent

• The Fyrd

• A personal bodyguard to a lord

• The knights