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ANCIENT BRITISH HISTORY QUIZ

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  1. First Neandertals and then Cro-Magnons

  2. Neandertals or Neanderthals were the prehistoric humans who lived in Europe, the Middle East, and the Western Asia from about 200,000 to 28000 years ago.

  3. Scientifically then Neanderthals are classified as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis.  

  4. Home Sapiens

  5. Cro-Magnons were the prehistoric people who lived in Europe from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago. They were anatomically modern people who are scientifically classified as Homo Sapiens.

  6. 8000 BC

  7. The rising sea level produced the English channel and made Britain and Island.

  8. During the New Stone Age

  9. Iberians or Long Skulls

  10. Pastoral Beaker folks

  11. Beaker folks were named after their characteristic pottery.

  12. Bronze tools

  13.  Stonehenge

  14. Celts

  15. The name Britain comes from the Latin word, Britannia. This name was given to the Island by the ancient Romans.

  16. Greek navigator Pytheas who visited the coastal region of the Island sometime around 325 BC.

  17. Thule

  18. Bronze Age (c. 2000 BC)

  19. Prehistoric monument on Salisbury plain, north of Salisbury. in South Western England. It dates from the late Stone and early Bronze Age (3000 to 1000 BC).

  20. Picts and European Celts who periodically invaded the Island until 1st Century BC.

  21. The Picts were the ancient inhabitants of northern Scotland and northern Ireland. They were of short stature and dark complexion.

  22. The Picts arrived from the Continent to Scotland sometime in 1000 BC.

  23. The Picts came to Ireland from Scotland in 200 AD

  24. As the raiders who harassed the Roman province of Britannia from the North.

  25. Hadrian's Wall

  26. "Celts dominated much of the Western and Central Europe in the 1st Millennium BC, giving their language, customs and religion to the other people of the area."             [Encyclopedia Encarta  2007 ]

  27. 55 B.C.

  28. To defeat the native forces

  29. Britons

  30. Claudius I  

  31. 47 AD

  32. A tribe which inhabited those areas which are now in Wales and Yorkshire regions.

  33. 30 years

  34. Headquarter of the Druids

  35. The Druids were the followers of Druidism - the religious faith of the ancients Celts of Gaul and the British Isles from the 2nd Century BC until the end of the 2nd Century AD.

  36. The Druids and Druidism survived only in those areas which were not attacked by the Romans. Druidism was supplanted by the Christianity two or three centuries later. 

  37. Boudicca - The queen of Iceni

  38. Iceni was a British tribe inhabiting the territory constituting the present day counties of Norfolk and Suffolk

  39. King Prasutagus

  40. After the death of her husband, her territory was seized by the Romans, she was tortured and beaten. Her daughters were raped and the nobles of Iceni were enslaved.

  41. Boudicca gathered a large army, destroyed the Roman colony of Camulodunum (now Colchester) and sacked Londinium and Veralamium (now London and Saint Albans)

  42. 70000

  43. The Roman Governor of Britian was absent in Mona (Now Anglesey). He advanced against the forces of queen and destroyed them?

  44. She killed herself after the defeat of her forces by the Roman Governor of Britain.

  45. The tragedy Bonduca by John Fletcher, the ode Boadicea by William Cowper and the poem Boadicea by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  46. Britannia

  47. 79 AD

  48. Gnaeus Julius Agricola

  49. The Battle of Mons Graupis (84 AD)

  50. "Firths are long, narrow bay or estuary on the Scottish coastline. They are stream valleys carved in the rocks that were scoured and deepened during the ice age, sometimes to several hundred feet by tongues of ice. After the ice receded, the sea invaded the broadened, straightened valleys. Among large Firths are Firth of Forth and Moray Firth on the East Coast of Scotland. Solway Firth and and Firths of Clyde and Lorne on the West Coast"   [Encyclopedia Encarta  2007 ]

  51. Scotland

  52. The region between the firths of Forth and Clyde

  53. The Caledonian tribes, the Picts

  54. 115 AD

  55. Hadrian

  56. Emperor Hadrian, got constructed a rampart 117 km (73 miles) long, reaching from Solway Firth, on the Irish Sea, to the mouth of the Tyne River. This is known as Hadrian's Wall and its fragments still exist.

  57. Between 122 to 126 AD

  58. Forts were after every 1.6 km along the wall and the watchtowers were after every 0.3 km

  59. one tenth

  60. In 143 AD. It was built across the narrowest part of the Island, from the Firth of Forth to the Firth of Clyde.

  61. 3rd Century AD

  62. 200 years

  63. By the end of the 3rd century AD

  64. To defend other parts of the Roman Empire

  65. In 410 AD

  66. Because the Visigoths had invaded Rome

  67. Visigoths or the western Goths were the ancient Germanic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the beginning of the 4th Century AD. They settled in areas of what now are Spain, Portugal and France. 

  68. Goths were ancient Teutonic people who in the 3rd to 6th century AD were an important power in the Roman world. The were the first Germanic people to become Christians.    

  69. Celtic Culture

  70. A super network of roads - the best the Britain would have for 1400 years, the sites of a number of towns - London, York and others bearing names that end in the suffix -cester and -caster; and Christianity.

  71. 5th and 6th Century AD

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