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MAbetini - Exercises page 8-9
by MAbetini - (2012-11-27)
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  1. The Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes gave the larger part of Britain its new name: “England”, that means, “the land of the Angles”.

  2. Most Anglo-Saxons invaders were farmers looking for richer lands, but many of them were also deep-sea fishermen used to hunting seals and whales in the stormy ocean.

  3. They exalted physical courage and personal freedom.

  4. At the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory I the Great sent a monk, Augustine, to bring Christianity back to England.

  5. Alfred the Great was the Anglo-Saxons' king.

  6. Athelstan can be described as the father of the English state. The 927 AD was the year in which he created a kingdom of all England.


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  1. I think they are made of iron or gold.

  2. I don't find them attractive because I don't like that type of objects.