Starter quiz
- What is a person who holds religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions called?
- a pagan ✓
- a historian
- a missionary
- a monarch
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- Complete the sentence. A ______ is a building where monks live and work together dedicated to religious life.
- 'monastery' ✓
- Once the Romans left Britain, what religion went into decline?
- Paganism
- Christianity ✓
- Judaism
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- Choose the correct word to finish this sentence: Missionaries were sent to Britain to ______ Anglo Saxons to Christianity.
- convert ✓
- force
- challenge
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- Which jobs were included in an Anglo-Saxon monk's daily life?
- praying ✓
- designing buildings
- studying ✓
- writing ✓
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- True or false? The Franks Casket showed only Christian imagery.
- True
- False ✓
Exit quiz
- True or false. Most of our modern knowledge and understanding about the Anglo-Saxons comes from physical artefacts.
- True ✓
- False
- Complete the sentence. A deep understanding of a person or thing is called an ______.
- 'insight' ✓
- What insight does the Anglo-Saxon jewellery give us about life during this period?
- They used money to trade.
- They were skilled craftspeople. ✓
- It shows us who and how they worshipped.
- Warfare was important.
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- Which statements are true about how historians use different sources to get an insight into their enquiries.
- Historians can use multiple sources but can only ask one question about each.
- Historians can use multiple sources and ask different questions about sources. ✓
- Historians can have different ideas about an artefact. ✓
- Historians have to agree on the same idea about each artefact.
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- What is it called when a historian makes conclusions based on evidence and reasoning?
- 'infer' ✓
- Match the source to what historians can infer from them about Anglo-Saxon life.
- silver bowls from Byzantium⇔They traded with far-away places. ✓
- written law of codes⇔They could be violent at times. ✓
- well-crafted weapons⇔They were skilled fighters. ✓
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Key learning points
- Most of our sources for Anglo-Saxon Britain are artefacts, supplemented by some writing.
- All of these sources can be used for different enquiries.
- By using the sources in different ways, and asking different questions, historians have inferred different things.
- Historians have inferred a lot about Anglo-Saxon culture and society by combining their findings from different sources.
- A good description of the evidence used to uncover life in Anglo-Saxon Britain will use knowledge from across this unit.
Common misconception
Students may think that for something to be taught as history, all historians have to agree on it.
Historians do not always agree about the past and what sources tell us. It is important to remember this when being historians ourselves!
Keywords
Modern - when something is described as modern it means it relates to the present time, not the past
Enquiry - an enquiry is a search for information or truth by asking questions
Infer - to infer something means to make conclusions based on evidence and reasoning
Insight - insight is an accurate or deep understanding of something
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