GCSE Edexcel History - Migrants in Britain & Notting Hill

Where did the Vikings start raiding in 793 for gold, silver and jewels?

Monasteries in Lindisfarne

Where did the Vikings take control of in 866?

York

By what year had all of England, except Wessex, been conquered by the Vikings?

878

What made East Anglia a desirable place for Viking families to settle?

Fertile land

What gave York fertile soil?

Foss & Ouse

How was York connected to the rest of the world during the Medieval period?

Rivers and Roman roads

What were streets (eg. Swinegate) in York named after?

Merchants

Which god did Vikings fight for in order to please?

Odin (god of war)

What were Vikings who died fighting rewarded with?

Life after death in Valhalla

What special status was given to the areas of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford, meaning that they were now controlled by an earl?

Jarldom

What was the name of the local meetings held in Viking communities were laws were made and criminals were tried?

Things

What did Viking villages have many of?

Professions

Which Viking king was also king of Denmark & Norway, increasing trade between Scandinavia and England?

King Cnut

What did Vikings allow Anglo-Saxons to continue to do within the Danelaw?

Mint their own coins

What religion did many Vikings become?

Christian

What type of positions did King Cnut allow Anglo-Saxons to hold?

Positions of power

What word describes how medieval York was made up of Vikings, Saxons and European migrants?

Multicultural

What battle in 937 did the Danes lose that resulted in England being under Saxon rule?

Battle of Brunanburh

What was the name given to the massacre of all Danes living in England by saxon King Ethelred on November 13th 1002?

St Brice's Day Massacre

Between what years was there constant war between Danes and Saxons?

1013-1015

What thing (which we still use today) were named after Viking gods?

Days of the week

How did Things (Viking village meetings) make England more democratic?

People had a vote

In Viking England, who had nearly equal rights eg. when inheriting land?

Men and women

Who had promised the throne to William of Normandy after Edward the Confessor's death?

Harold Godwinson

What blood connection did Edward the Confessor's mother have to William?

She was his great aunt

Which religious figure supported William of Normandy?

The Pope

What had the Normans specially designed to fit soldiers and horses?

Ships

What did William of Normandy bring with him during his invasion?*

Castles *

What was the name given to the Norman military campaign between 1069-1070 when they destroyed the North in order to prevent it being used as a base for future invasions?

Harrying of the North

What did the Normans pay the Vikings with for control over East Anglia & York and for them to leave?

Danegeld

What was the Norman feudal system?

A hierarchy of power

In the feudal system, how many barons were given land in return for loyalty to William the Conqueror?

200

In the feudal system, how many knights were given land by the barons in return for loyalty and service?

4000

In the feudal system, how many peasants were loaned land and given protection by knights?

1.5 million

What structures did the Normans construct as a physical reminder of power?

Castles

What was the name of the record of all land, tenants, buildings and animals commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085?

Domesday Book

What was William trying to raise after the commissioning of the Domesday Book

Taxes

Who were the existing chancellors and sheriffs replaced with in Norman England?

Norman ones

What was the name of the new level of the shire court system established for day-to-day disputes?

Hundreds

By what year had all wooden Saxon churches been replaced with stone ones?

1200

What percentage of workers did the Domesday Book reveal were slaves?

10%

Give two examples of 'Old French' words for meats that have became part of the English language

Pork and beef

What were brought in for hundreds in which a Norman had been killed and no murderer had been found?

Murdrum fines

What did medieval Jews lend money to William the Conqueror to build?

Stone castles and cathedrals

What was the term given by the Pope to charging interest (which he considered greedy and a sin)?

Usury

In what year did William the Conqueror invite Jewish merchants from Rouen to lend money from their jobs?

1070

What is the name given to the areas within a city where Jewish people lived

Jewries

What status did William I make Jews?

Property of the King

Where could medieval Jews pay to stay in if they were in crisis?

Royal castles

Who were medieval Jews accused of killing?*

Jesus Christ*

Whose coronation in 1189 were Jewish people attacked during?

Richard I

What is the name given to how medieval Jews were accused of using children's blood in rituals and bread?

Blood libels

What legal status meant that medieval Jews had to pay large taxes?

Resident alien

From what year were medieval Jews forced to wear a yellow patch on their clothes?

1218

During the medieval period, what did the Pope eventually allow Christian Italian bankers to do?

Loan money and charge interest

What is the name of the 1275 law that banned Jews from charging interest and cancelled Jewish loans?

Statute of Jewry

During the medieval period, in what year did Edward I order all Jews to convert or be expelled?

1290

How many castles were built using Jewish money?

84

During the medieval period, which monarch used Jewish money to pay his ransom and fund the crusade?*

Richard I*

Which medieval Jew funded Henry III's rebuilding of Westminster Abbey?

Licoricia of Winchester

When Aaron of Lincoln died in 1168, what had to be set up to sort out his finances?

A royal department

Which medieval Jew helped found Merton College in the 1260s?

Jacob of Oxford

During the medieval period, what percentage of the population had died from the black death?

50%

Which monarch invited weavers from the Low Countries in 1270?

Henry III

In what year did rich banking families from Lombardy start arriving in England during the medieval period?

1220

Who taught English brickmakers in the medieval period how a different method of making and setting bricks?

Flemish brickmakers

Who taught English brewers in the medieval period how to brew beer with hops instead of barley?

Dutch brewers

What status did Henry III give to the Lombardy bankers, giving them royal protection?

Denizen status

In what year during the medieval period did Edward I give the Hanseatic League the right to trade as merchants and have lower taxes and tariffs?

1303

During the medieval period, who did English craftsmen think were taking their jobs and selling goods at lower prices?

Flemish merchants

How many foreign weavers and merchants were killed in the Peasant's Revolt in 1381?

150

What happened to the Hanseatic League's steelyard in 1381 and 1492?

It was attacked

In what year during the medieval period did Edward II arrest all foreigners near the south coast, fearing a French invasion?

1325

Who became richer as a result of income taxes on the import and export of goods by merchants during the medieval period?

The Crown

During the medieval period, where did trade to increase?

Inland Europe

Which medieval period group helped finance Edward I's campaign in Wales and castles in North Wales?

Lombardy bankers

Which medieval period group loaned money to finance Edward III's Hundred Years' War?*

Lombardy bankers*

Which medieval period group introduced the words "bank", "credit" and "debit" into the English language?

Lombardy bankers

How many Huguenots were killed during the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572?*

10,000*

In what year during the early modern period did Charles II offer the Huguenots denizen status?

1681

In what year during the early modern period did Louis XIV make being protestant illegal in France?

1685

During the early modern period, what special status did William III give Huguenots?

Royal protection

Why couldn't Huguenots work in France during the early modern period?

Their religion

How many Palatines migrated to England in 1709?

12,000

In what year during the early modern period was the Foreign Protestant Naturalisation Act written?

1709

Why did Palatines migrate to England during the early modern period?

A poor harvest in Germany

What was the name of the Protestant refugee from France who made bank notes for the Bank of England during the early modern period?

Henri de Portal

What was the nickname given to Spitalfields during the early modern period?

Weaver town

The production of what in England increased twenty-fold due to Spitalfields?

Silk

What was set up and raised 3.5 million pounds after William III's declaration to help Huguenot refugees?

A relief committee

How much of the money raised by the relief committee for Huguenot refugees during the early modern period did William III donate between 1689-1693?

Half

In what year during the early modern period did Edward VI sign a charter allowing the construction of the 'Church of the Strangers' in London?

1550

How many Huguenot churches were built in Spitalfields by 1700?

9

What did most Palatine refugees work as in England during the early modern period?

Agricultural labourers

What event in England in 1709 meant that extra labourers were not needed?

A poor harvest

How many Palatines were deported to Ireland in September 1709?

3000

Who benefitted from the increased production of silk during the early modern period?

Rich women with dresses

How many paper mills did England have by 1714?

200

What industry in Sheffield and Shotley Bridge did Huguenot refugees help to develop during the early modern period?

Steel

What did Huguenot refugees during the early modern period help to establish that meant the government could borrow money?

The National Debt