8th form Great Britain

1. From about AD 350, Germanic tribes ___ invading south-east England.

2. The tribes ____ from what is now northern Germany, Holland and Denmark.

3. The first to come ____ the Saxons, loined later by the Jutes and the Angles.

4. The Angles ____ England its name.

5. Britain ___ the protection of only a few Roman legions.

6. The native people ____ not stop the new enemy, known as the Anglo-Saxons.

7. The Celts ____ north and west taking their ancient arts and language with them.

8. Celtic languages have ___ from most of Europe.

9. But these languages are still ____ in parts of Wales, Ireland and Scotland.

10. The Anglo-Saxons in southern England were ____ to Christianity.

11. As Christianity spread, churches and monasteries ____ all over England.

12. About AD 790, the Vikings ____ to invade England.

13. The Norsemen, who ____ from Norway, mainly settled in Scotland and Ireland.

14.The north and east of England were ____ by the Danes.

15. They were excellent trades and navigators so they ___ in silk and furs as far as Russia.

16. In 1016, England ____ a part of the Scandinavian empire, under King Knut.

17. In 1066, England ___ again facing invasion from the north and the south.

18. In September, King Harold II marched north to ____ his half-brother, the king of Norway.

19. Just three weeks later, he himself was ____ and killed at Hastings by another invader of Viking origin, Willim, Duke of Normandy, from northern France.

20. He was ____ as King William I in London on Christmas Day, 1066.