Anglo-Saxon and Beowulf Background Vocabulary Test

A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power

• Feudalism

• Pagan

• Guilds

• Old English

The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices

• Old-English

• Anglo-Saxons

• Monasteries

• Christianity

The period in European history from the end of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476 to about A.D. 1000.

• Dark Ages

• Feudalism

• Old English

• Conquest

A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions

• Anglo-Saxon

• Christianity

• Pagan

• Inhabitants

An unwelcome intrusion into another's domain

• Christianity

• Pagan

• Conquest

• Invasion

A member of the Germanic people that invaded England (5th and 6th century) and were there at the time of the Norman Conquest.

• Guilds

• Inhabitants

• Anglo-Saxon

• Monasteries

The English Language from the time of the earliest settlements in the fifth century AD to about 1100

• Pagan

• Old English

• Anglo-Saxon

• Feudalism

A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows

• Guilds

• Pagan

• Invasion

• Monasteries

Assumption of control of a place or people by use of military force

• Invasion

• Conquest

• Feudalism

• Inhabitants

A person or animal that lives in or occupies a place

• Pagan

• Invasion

• Inhabitant

• Old-English