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The Anglo-Saxons Period
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English
12th Grade
05/22/2012

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What are the time periods of the Anglo-Saxons period?
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449 AD/CE- 1066 AD/CE
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How did language change?
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Encountering of new things
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What languages brought English?
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Latin and Germanic
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Where did WIlliam the Conqueror invade?
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Normandy in the Battle of Hastings-- took place in Senlac (sand lake)
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When did Julius Cesaer attack?
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50-55 BC
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Who is the Arch Bishop of Canterbury and sent by whom?
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St. Augustine sent by Pope Gregory 597 AD/CE
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What did the monks do?
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Church influenced and Monks recorded stories in their own way
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Who is Alfred the Great?
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formulated public schools, he wrote the history of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles
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what is a scob?
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oral poet
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what is meed?
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honey fermented alcoholic drink
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what are runes?
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symbols, recorded stories
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what is vernacular?
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spoken stories in a particular area
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what is a Venerable Bede?
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a monk, father of English History (700 AD)
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What are some Germanic and Latin words?
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Germanic Latinate
hate abhor
snot nasal mucus
puke vomit
belly stomach
cow bovine
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what is ethnocentric?
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thinking one's ethnicity is superior over others
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Who was Thomas Aquinas?
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chief scholar moving from one place to another
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how was medieval life like?
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no modern comforts and conveniences, no variety of clothes, travel was difficult and dangerous, and food was dull, no preservatives--had to eat all quickly, no pollution -- brighter colors, there were religious festivals, crusades were failures, there was chivalry-- conduct of well mannered and sensitive men toward women
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Who fought in the Hundred Years' War? And between what times?
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England won against France between 1337-1453
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Who was Henry II?
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descendant of WIlliam the Conqueror and Alfred the Great
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what are lords?
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nobles, bishops
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what are commons?
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towns people
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what is "everyman"
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theater performance
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