1When did Britain become an island?
5
2What was the name of the people that arrived in Southeast Britain from Europe after 24
3Huge bluestones were brought to build Stonehenge from south Wales after about ____ BC.
24
4When did the Celts begin to arrive?
Around 7
5The ____ were important members of a ruling warrior class in the Celtic tribes.
Druids
6Who came to Britain from the Roman Empire in 55 BC?
Julius Caesar
7When did Claudius send an army to conquer Britain?
43 AD
8Who led the Iceni tribe against the Roman invaders in 61 AD?
Boadicea
9Britain remained a Roman province for about ____ years.
325
10A wall was built to protect the Britain lands from the Picts in 122 AD. The wall was named after the Roman Emperor ____.
Hadrian
11Rome pulled its last soldiers out of Britain in ____.
4
12After what year did the Saxons, Angles and Jutes begin to settle in Britain?
43
13Which king ordered to build a huge lenghty dyke (earth wall) to keep out the Celts at the end of VIII century?
King Offa of Mercia
14Augustine became the first ____ of Canterbury in 6
1.
15When did the Vikings invade Britain?
In 865
16What was the name of the only king who held out against the Vikings?
Alfred the Great
17In 1
16, the King of Denmark ____ became also the King of England.
18Which famous piece of architecture was built during the reign of Edward the Confessor?
The Westminster Abbey
19After the Battle of Hastings in 1
66, ____ became the King of England.
20The ____ Book was completed in 1
86.
21The ____, nowadays known as the Tower of London, was built by William I to protect himself from possible attacks.
White tower
22What was the name of the first king of the House of Plantagenet?
Henry Plantagenet
23____, the second king of the Plantagenet dynasty, was killed in France in 1199.
Richard the Lionheart
24Another name for The Great Charter is ____.
Magna Carta
25The first university in England was founded in ____ in 1168.
Oxford
26The second university in England was formed in ____ in 12
9.
27The Hundred Years' War lasted from 1337 to ____.
1453
28Wat Tyler and Jack Straw led the peasants' revolt during ____ reign in 1381.
Richard II's
29The War of the Roses ended with the battle of ____.
Bosworth
30Who was proclaimed as the King of England after the War of the Roses?
Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond