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| The first inhabitants of England were _____ that lived on the island almost 250,000 years ago. |
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| Invaders from the Iberian Peninsula (Modern Spain and Portugal) conquered this early culture and created a society sophisticated enough to erect _______. |
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| The ______ reached the island around 600 B.C. |
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| _____ built walled farms used bronze and iron tools and grew crops. |
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| Did individual Celtic tribes each have their own kings? |
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Druids
Sacrifices in forest shrines |
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| What were the Celtic preists called and what did they conduct? |
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| In what year did Rome try to conquer Britain? |
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| Who raided the land to punish the Celts for helping their cousins the Gauls in France in the war with Rome? |
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| Rome eventually subdued the Celts, driving the tribes into the highlands of _____ and _____. |
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| Invaders came from where taking plunder and slaves? |
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| Who first reached Ireland as a slave? |
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| What emperor built a wall 73 miles long to help protect the northern border to keep these tribes there? |
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| Roman Britain was a prosperous colony of how many people? |
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| What did Rome rule with that helped conquer most of central and southern England? |
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| Towns were built for _____ purposes and served as centers of civilization. |
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| Rome built a system of _____ radiating from London, introduced _____, used _____ as a dominant language, and taught people how to build and furnish better _____. |
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| In what year did Rome withdraw leaving the Celts for barbarians to conquer? |
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| Three waves of invasions occurred between which two years? |
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| These tribes - the _____, the _____ (from which the name England is derived), and the _____ - were Germanic in origin. |
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| The Anglo-Saxon society was _____ in nature, ruled by a king called a _____. |
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| To protect himself and his lands, the king surrounded himself with a retinue of fighting mercenary warriors (_____) who pledged to defend the king. |
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| The kind rewarded faithful service with treasures such as _____, _____, and _____. This payment was seen as honor due to faithful thanes. |
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| The main structure of the Anglo-Saxon village was the _____. |
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| Here warriors and kings feasted and were entertained by singing poets called _____. |
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| _____ and _____, were of great importance to the Anglo-Saxon period. |
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| The scops preserved _____, a record of achievements from later generations. |
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| Endless fueds between tribes demanded the payment of _____, a momentary price for a man's life, to the dead man's family to try to reduce these bloody battles. |
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| Christianity began to take hold in 597 when _____ was sent to England by Pope _____. |
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| He successfully converted the Kentish king _____ and made _____ the home of religion on the island. |
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| Who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury? |
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| The Christian missionaries |
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| Who brought the culture of the Mediterranean to England? |
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| The missionaries began _____ and _____ manuscripts. |
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| Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
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| In 731 in the abbey at Jarrow, Bede, sometimes called the father of modern history, completed his masterpiece, _____, which describes the growth of the Church in England from Julius Caesar's attack in 55 B.C. to 731 A.D. |
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| In what year did the Danish invasions begin? |
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| These _____ invaded and took over most of the cental and northeastern portions of the island, in an area called _____. |
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| The most successful opponent of these Viking invaders was _____. |
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| Who was the only remaining Anglo-Saxon kingdom? |
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| Alfred the Great complied and published a code of laws based on _____ and _____. |
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| Alfred the Great encouraged _____ to come to England and foster education amoung the _____. |
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