5 questions on the Early Middle Ages
1. Queen Boadicea was an outstanding Anglo-Saxon queen.
2. Julius Caesar ordered a wall to be built from the River Tyne to Solway Firth to protect northern England from barbarian raids.
3. Alfred the Great failed to halt the Danish advance, and the Danes conquered the whole of England.
4. The part of England ruled by the Danes was called the Danelaw.
5. The Ecclesiastical History of the English‘ was an epic poem written in Old English.
5 questions on the Late Middle Ages
1. The `Domesday Book‘ was an important work of fiction in Norman England.
2. Thomas Becket was Archbishop of York.
3. Henry II was famous as a law-giver.
4. The Statute of Labourers was an important piece of legislation, which improved the condition of the peasants.
5. At Runnymede John Lackland was forced by the barons to call the first Model Parliament (origin of the House of Commons).
