Starter quiz
- The largest unit of administration after an earldom is known as a ______.
- 'shire' ✓
- Why might it be problematic for a king to give wide-ranging powers to their earls?
- The earls could use their power to challenge the king. ✓
- It easier for the king rule alone.
- The shire reeves were more suited to having this power.
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- The name for a group of ten households is ______.
- 'tithing' ✓
- Who were the housecarls?
- an advisory council to the king
- elite soldiers who guarded important people ✓
- the people in charge of the tithing
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- How much of the taxes collected by the earls were given to the king?
- two-thirds ✓
- one-third
- one-quarter
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- Which group of people oversaw the social justice system in Anglo Saxon England?
- The earls ✓
- The local people
- the Witan
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