Es 1

1.The Middle Ages in Europe begin with the end of the classical cultures of Rome and Greece and end with the beginning of the Reinassance.

2.The main features shared by many European countries in the Middle Ages were the expansion of Christianity and the predominance of feudalism as a social system.

3.Invasions were a factor of change because they started settlements that gave origin to new kingdoms.

4.Crusades and voyages opened new routes to trade and to the discovery of new lands.

5.Medieval society was mainly rural but towns started to grow along trade routes,while city-dwellers became part of the new middle class in society.

Es 2

1.The early Middle Ages in Britain started with the Viking invasion. F

2.Anglo-Saxon England was always divided into seven kingdoms. F

3.The spread of Christianity in Britain began in the 6^th century. T

4.The danes,of Viking origin,founded a kingdom in east Anglia. T

5.Alfred the Great and King Cnut were both of Anglo-saxon descent. F

6.The battle of Hastings was fought between Anglo-Saxon and Normans.

T

Es 3

The Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes that came from Northern Europe and during the 5^th and 6^th centuries they invaded Britain,which was under the Roman control.Their society was based on a chief or king,who ruled as a military leader, then came the "earls" and "thegns" (both nobles) and finally the other people,called "freemen.At first people lived in country village where the farmland was owned communally,but in the 8^th and 9^th centuries they started to found some towns,and exactly Winchester,York,Southampton,Norwich and London.Anglo-Saxons spoke a Germanic language,called Old English and their culture was an oral one but from the end of the 6th century the influence of Christianity introduced the writing of documents  and also united the kingdom.