History of England

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Before the first Roman invasion ______ tribes lived on the island called Britain.

Some of the above tribes, like those in the south-west, lived in fortified villages called ________.

Britain’s new name under Roman rule was _________.

Stonehenge, a series of circles made of blocks of stone and built about 2300 BC, is located in ______ England.

Who was the first emperor in Roman history to build a wall in order to separate the “barbarians” from the Romans ? ________

After 2400 BC the arrival of new groups of people in southeast Britain is marked by the first individual graves, furnished with _______ containers.

The newcomers were called _______.

Give the name of the king who eventually managed to a large army of Danish Vikings plundering Britain in AD 878. __________

The Romans gave rise to many cities on the British Isles. Towns and cities with porta and castra in their names were places where the Romans settled: for example ____, _______.

The city of London during Roman times comprised vital public buildings and places:______, _________, and ________ .

In the Vth century tribes of the ______, ________, and _______ invaded Britain.

The Anglo-Saxon migrations gave the larger part of Britain its new name, England, “the land of the _______”.

We learn about the invaders thanks to the book written by a Saxon monk, called _____.

Place names as _____, _____, and East _____ remind us of different groups of Saxon settlers.

In 1939 archeologists discovered an Anglo-Saxon ship, which was built to carry the dead into the afterlife. The archeological site is located in ________.

The first Archbishop of Canterbury was ________, a Roman missionary.

Celtic art was mainly __________, whereas “Barbarian” art was based on _____ and __ ___motifs.

It was discovered that the Stonehenge could be used as a _____ to predict such things as _____.

At one time, people thought that Stonehenge was a temple of ____ who were ____.

The _____ discovered in 2017, depicting a scene of a man fighting a lion while his children watch in fear, provides evidence of Roman executions in the British Isles.

The Hinton St Mary ______ is one of the most striking pieces of evidence for Christianity in Roman Britain. It was designed as a floor or pavement in a Roman villa and includes one of the earliest known portraits of Christ.

A silver object with an animal design, found with the high-status female in an Anglo Saxon burial in Wendover. ___________

In Roman Britain very rich Romans and Britons lived in ____, which in the 4th century were rebuilt with a large number of rooms grouped around a courtyard.

Queen Elizabeth II _____her father as reigning monarch in 1952.

There are some very beautiful ___ glass windows in Canterbury Cathedral.

The Vikings who settled in Britain lived on farming. The remains of the Viking farm were found at Ribblehead in_______.

The Vikings founded __________, __________ and the first _______ state.

The inheritance of land by _______ was one of the reasons for the Vikings’ expansion.