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7.1 Who were the First English people?

Total questions: 61

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In chronological order, list the three periods of the Stone Age

(a)  

2.

What is the name when a person moves from one country to another?

(a)  

3.

Which of these is an example of an early English artefact?

a)

Stone Tools

b)

Trap door

c)

Fish spear

d)

Halberd

e)

Musket

4.

End of part 1. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

5.

What is the name given to the area of land which once linked England to the rest of Europe?

(a)  

6.

In what year was this land flooded?

(a)  

7.

Which sea now covers this land?

(a)  

8.

What are people called who dig up artefacts from the past?

(a)  

9.

What is the Middle Stone Age also known as?

(a)  

10.

Give two examples of human artefacts found in Doggerland.

a)

Fish hooks

b)

Mammoth bones

c)

Bronze tools

d)

Arrow heads

11.

Give two examples of animals that were found in Doggerland

a)

Woolly Rhino

b)

Horses

c)

Woolly mammoth

d)

Kangeroos

12.

What word would you use to describe the people of Doggerland’s hunting habits?

(a)  

13.

What word is used to describe how the Doggerlanders moved around a lot?

(a)  

14.

End of part 2. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

15.

Who were the migrants who settled from Rome in 43CE?

(a)  

16.

Name 2 ideas which helped to improve public health, in England, brought by the Romans.

a)

Amphitheatre

b)

Circus

c)

Baths

d)

Sewers

17.

Which of these are included in the Roman's 4 humours?

a)

Yellow Bile

b)

Black Bile

c)

Blood

d)

Phlegm

e)

Red Bile

18.

Who was Aesclepius?

a)

A famous Roman doctor

b)

The Roman god of healing

c)

The famous Greek doctor

d)

The Roman god of war

19.

Who was Hippocrates

a)

A famous Roman doctor

b)

The Roman god of healing

c)

The famous Greek doctor

d)

The Roman god of war

20.

End of part 3. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

21.

When did Alfred become king?

a)

871 CE

b)

871 BCE

c)

1987

d)

6000 BCE

22.

On which day did the Vikings attack Alfred’s Wessex?

a)

The Twelve day of Christmas

b)

Easter Sunday

c)

Last Wednesday

d)

Christmas Day

23.

What was the name of the agreement Alfred made with the Danes which split England?

(a)  

24.

Who was the Viking leader forced to be baptised after being defeated by Alfred?

(a)  

25.

What was the name of the part-time Anglo-Saxon army made up of mostly peasants?

a)

Feed

b)

Frird

c)

Fird

d)

Fyrd

26.

What was the name of the fortress towns Alfred told to be built?

(a)  

27.

What language did Alfred translate old Anglo-Saxon texts into?

(a)  

28.

What book did Alfred ask to be written to tell the story of the Anglo-Saxons?

a)

The Domesday Book

b)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

c)

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

d)

The Bible

29.

End of part 4. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

30.

What was the name of the invaders who came from Scandinavia?

a)

The Hunter-Gatherers

b)

The Romans

c)

The Anglo-Saxons

d)

The Vikings

31.

When were the Vikings forced to stop their invasion of England, having been defeated by the armies of Wessex?

a)

878 CE

b)

878 BCE

c)

1987

d)

871 CE

32.

What word most strongly links to domestic?

a)

In the countryside

b)

At war

c)

In the home

d)

In the town

33.

What is the name of the old Viking stories which tell the tales of Odin and Thor?

(a)  

34.

Which of these was a Viking goddess?

a)

Freya

b)

Odin

c)

Loki

d)

Thor

35.

Which of these are examples of women and men being treated as equal to men? (Hint: more than one)

a)

Both men and women could divorce their partners

b)

Both men and women could inherit from each other

c)

Both men and women could own a business

d)

Both men and women had equal say in political matters

36.

End of part 5. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

37.

What was the name of the people who migrated to England after the Romans?

a)

Nomads

b)

Anglo-Saxons

c)

Vikings

d)

Normans

38.

What word, starting with P has to do with how a country is ruled.

(a)  

39.

What word, starting with D, means to do with the home?

(a)  

40.

Which industry/ business were Anglo-Saxon women most likely to be involved with?

a)

Metalwork

b)

Carpentry

c)

Textiles

d)

Military

41.

Name one item commonly associated with the production of clothes in Anglo-Saxon England

a)

Sewing machine

b)

Loom

c)

Spindle Whorl

d)

Distaff

42.

Name the Anglo-Saxon woman who made decisions about how people should worship God.

(a)  

43.

Name the Anglo-Saxon woman who ruled Mercia when her husband died.

(a)  

44.

What is the name of the building where monks lived in Anglo-Saxon England?

(a)  

45.

What do historians call the clues they use to find out about the past?

(a)  

46.

What is an inference?

a)

An historian's best guess at the past

b)

When an historian makes a guess at the meaning of a source

c)

When an historian describes the past

d)

When an historian explains the past

47.

End of part 6. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

48.

What was the name of the Empire that dominated modern day Malaysia and Indonesia when the Anglo-Saxons occupied England?

(a)  

49.

Around when did the Srivijayan Empire start?

a)

43CE

b)

600CE

c)

871CE

d)

1066 CE

50.

Name one of the capitals of Srivijaya

a)

Palembang

b)

Tokyo

c)

Malaysia

d)

Jakarta

51.

What was the name of the river that ran through Srivijaya?

a)

Amazon

b)

Melayu

c)

Thames

d)

Yangtze

52.

Name one of the other nations that challenged the power of Srivijaya (Hint: just one word- don't write empire at the end of it)

(a)  

53.

What language did they write in Srivijaya?

a)

Javanese

b)

Sanskrit

c)

Hieroglyphs

d)

Ogham

54.

What religion did the people of Srivijaya follow?

a)

Buddhism

b)

Mahayana Buddhism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Islam

55.

End of part 7. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy

56.

Name the three most powerful earldoms of Anglo-Saxon England by 1060.

a)

Northumbria

b)

Wessex

c)

Mercia

d)

Wales

57.

Name one Anglo-Saxon God

(a)  

58.

Who was the most powerful in Anglo-Saxon England?

a)

A Thegn

b)

An Earl

c)

A Coerl

d)

A Peasant

59.

What was the name of the fine that Anglo-Saxons had to pay if they had broken the law?

(a)  

60.

What was used to plaster the walls of Anglo-Saxon peasants houses?

a)

Polyfilla

b)

Cement

c)

Plaster

d)

Wattle & Daub

61.

End of part 8. How did you find part one of the quiz?

a)

Very difficult

b)

Difficult

c)

Alright

d)

Easy

e)

Very easy