Answer all of the questions given

1.1A&B

What is the Bronze Age?

What was before the Bronze Age?

1.3
How was the next monarch supposed to be chosen after the death of Edward the Confessor?

Who were the contenders for the throne?

2.1B
What were some of the challenges that William faced after his victory against Harold?

What is the Murdrum Fine?

2.4
What is the Feudal System?

How did this enable William to have better control over the country?

Who was this most beneficial for? Who was this least beneficial for?

2.5
What are some of the ways that the Normans changed everyday life in England?
Explain your answers.

3.2A&B
Different groups of monks and nuns, known as orders, consist of religious individuals who
followed certain rules made by the person who founded the particular order.
What are some that you know of?
What are some of the reasons why people become monks or nuns?

What are alms?

3.4
What were some of the reasons why people went on the Crusade?

4.1AB
What are the differences and similarities between a motte and bailey castle with a concentric
castle?

4.3A
What is the Magna carta?

What led to the siege of Rochester Castle to happen?

4.4B
Fill in the blanks
1. Villeins are not allowed to leave the village as they need the ( ) permission to first do
so. They could not even ( ) without the lord’s permission.
The peasants may gain freedom through a generous lord or by ( )their freedom.
They are then called ( ).