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WorksheetsMigration to Britain - Romans to the Huguenots
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Identify 2 reasons for the Romans invading Britain
To demonstrate prowess as a powerful leader
To find the ends of the known earth
To collect trinkets for a new market
To access a selection of natural resources such as tin
What is the definition of 'colonial'?
Where a government makes a series of laws for a place to follow
Where a government or country establishes control by forming a settlement which uses the laws and values of the home country
An area that is taken over by an imperial power
A place that is put aside by the local population for a group of people to settle in
Which group of people directly followed the Romans in the invasion of Britain?
Picts
Normans
Vikings
Anglo-Saxons
Which word matches this definition? This is where something is becoming less developed
Regression
Progression
Refer
Slipping
Complete the sentence: The area of Britain controlled by the Vikings was called the .....
Danegeld
Danelaw
Vikingland
Denmark
What impression do we get of the Vikings from the above picture?
Colonists who were creating an Imperial Britain
Travellers who were selling goods
Invaders who were looking to steal crops
Farmers and settlers who were looking for land
True or False: there were over 200 black people living in Britain in the 16th Century
True
False
The picture above shows John Blanke - which of the following facts are true about this man?
He was a paid trumpeter as part of Henry VIII's court
He was treated with disdain by the King
He asked Henry VIII for a pay rise and got it!
All black men in skilled professions were slaves
The word 'refugee' was brought to the British Isles by the Huguenots who took refuge here from persecution by Louis XIV
True
False
What happened on St Bartholomew's Day 1572?
The guillotine was invented
Tens of thousands of French Protestants were killed
There was mass emigration to Britain
Civil war began in France
Spitalfields and Soho were the two main areas that the French Huguenots settled in London. Which trade were these groups experts in?
Textiles and Weaving
Steel work
Acting
Clock and Watch manufacture
True or False: Despite being protestant, the Huguenots were not welcome in London
True
False
By the end of the Potato Famine 1845-1849, how many people had emigrated from Ireland to other countries across the globe?
3 million
2.5 million
2 million
1.5 million
Which of the people below migrated to Britain to escape the hardships of Ireland?
Dr Thomas Barnardo
Bram Stoker
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
