Anglo Saxon Society on the Eve of Conquest

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Who was given land in return

(and as a reward) for their

loyalty to the king?

In which year were Godwine

and his family banished from

England?

In what year did Edward the

Confessor become king of

England?

Why did Edgar the Aetheling

have claim to the English

throne?

Where did Harold Godwinson

defeat Harald Hardrada?

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Thegns were given land in

return (and as a reward) for

their loyalty to the king.

Godwine and his family were

banished from England in

1051.

Edward the Confessor

became king of England in

1042.

Edgar the Aetheling had claim

to the English throne as he was

the descendent of Alfred the

Great (one of the most highly

respected and successful Anglo-

Saxon kings).

Harold Godwinson defeated

Harald Hardrada at Stamford

Bridge.

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Why were Harold

Godwinson’s men at a mental

disadvantage?

Name the four components of

the feudal system.

What were burhs?

What type of castles did

William bring with him on his

fleet to prepare for the Battle

of Hastings?

What was the Investiture

Controversy?

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Harold Godwinson’s

men were at a mental

disadvantage because of the

belief that God was on the

Norman side, due to the Papal

blessing given to William.

The four components of the

feudal system were the king,

barons, knights and villeins.

Burhs were busy places with

trade and commerce being a

central focus.

William brought

prefabricated wooden

castles with him on his fleet

to prepare for the Battle of

Hastings.

The Investiture Controversy

was a period of tension

between the popes and

monarchs in the 11th and

12th centuries to determine

who would choose bishops

and abbots.






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What was the Privy Council?

Which two Acts made up

the Elizabethan Religious

Settlement?

Which was the most valuable

part of Philip II’s empire?

How long was Mary, Queen

of Scots imprisoned for in

England?

How many ships did the

Spanish Armada have in

comparison to the English in

1588?

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The Privy Council was the chief

administrative and executive

political body.

The Act of Supremacy and

the Act of Uniformity made

up the Elizabethan Religious

Settlement.

The Netherlands was the most

valuable part of Philip II’s

empire

Mary Queen of Scots was

imprisoned for 19 years in England.

The Spanish Armada had around

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names of the three plots

which were aimed at

overthrowing Elizabeth I

between 1571 and 1586?

What was the infant mortality

rate in Elizabethan society?

Why did Puritans oppose

theatres?

What was the name of Sir

Francis Drake’s ship which

survived the storms in 1578?

Who wrote The Principle

Navigations, Voyages and

Discoveries of the English Nation?

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The three plots which were

aimed at overthrowing

Elizabeth I were the Ridolfi

Plot, the Throckmorton Plot

and the Babington Plot.

The infant mortality rate

was 134/1000 in Elizabethan

society.

Puritans opposed theatres

because they thought they

were the work of the Devil

and that they produced vulgar

plays which encouraged sinful

behaviour.

Sir Francis Drake’s ship, which

survived the storms in 1578,

was called The Golden Hind.

Richard Hakluyt wrote The

Principle Navigations, Voyages

and Discoveries of the English

Nation.






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What was the name

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would whip themselves in

order to receive forgiveness

from God?

What was the name of

William Harvey’s book, which

was published in 1628?

During 1529, how many people

did the Sweating Sickness kill in

just four weeks?

What was the Second Public

Health Act also known as?

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Hippocrates devised the idea

of the Four Humours.

Flagellants would whip

themselves in order to receive

forgiveness from God.

William Harvey’s book, which

was published in 1628, was

called An Anatomical Account

of the Motion of the Heart

and Blood in Animals.

During 1529, the Sweating

Sickness killed over 1000

people in four weeks.

The Second Public Health Act

was also known as The Great

Clear Up.






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Pasteur discover after

experiments on sour milk?

What was discovered by Karl

Landsteiner in 1901 that made

blood transfusions more successful?

What was the limitation of

the School Meals Act of 1907?

In the 1960s, what caused

babies to be born with

disfigurements such as a lack

of limbs?

In what year did Ebola break

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Louis Pasteur discovered

microbes after experiments

on sour milk.

In 1901, Karl Landsteiner

discovered blood groups,

which made blood

transfusions more successful.

The limitation of the School

Meals Act of 1907 was that

it only improved children’s

health during term time.

In the 1960s, Thalidomide

caused babies to be born with

disfigurements such as a lack

of limbs.

Ebola broke out in Africa in 2002.






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Blood feuds were when

victims of crime were legally

allowed to hunt down

criminals and punish them.

Trial by hot iron, trial by

water, trial by blessed bread,

and trial by cold water were

all known as Trial by Ordeal.

Trade restrictions and tax

increases helped to increase

smuggling.

Royal judges were the only

judges who were able to pass

death sentences.

The Riot Act of 1715 made

it a capital offence for more

than 12 people to meet up

together.

What were blood feuds?

Trial by hot iron, trial by

water, trial by blessed bread,

and trial by cold water were

all known as what?

Trade restrictions and tax

increases helped to increase

what type of crime?

Which judges were the only

judges who were able to pass

death sentences?

What did the Riot Act of 1715 do?






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Robert Peel set up the 1823

Gaol Act.

The Race Relations Act

of 1965 made it illegal to

discriminate on the grounds

of colour, race or ethnic origin

in businesses and work places

and to stir up racial hatred.

Hard labour and corporal

punishment in prisons were

abolished in 1948.

15,000 British men refused to

fight on religious and moral

grounds in the First World War.

Old, poor, single and uneducated

women were mostly accused of

being witches.

Who set up the 1823 Gaol Act?

What did the Race Relations

Act of 1965 do?

In what year were hard labour

and corporal punishment in

prisons abolished?

How many British men refused

to fight on religious and moral

grounds in the First World War?

Which types of women were

mostly accused of being witches?






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