ONE HUNDRED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON PICTURES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY—FROM
COMMENCEMENT OF BOOK TO PAGE 145.
By A. M. MARTIN, GENERAL SECRETARY C. L. S. C.
1. Q. When and under whom was the first invasion of Great Britain made by
the Romans? A. In 55 B. C., under Julius Cæsar.
2. Q. How long afterward was Great Britain finally abandoned by the
Romans? A. About five hundred years afterward.
3. Q. Before this period what people from the east of the Mediterranean
had traded with the islanders? A. The Phœnicians.
4. Q. What was the character of the islanders when first known to the
Phœnicians and Romans? A. They were savages, going almost naked, or only
dressed in the rough skins of beasts, and staining their bodies with
colored earths and the juices of plants.
5. Q. Into how many tribes were the ancient Britons divided? A. Into
thirty or forty tribes, each commanded by its own king, and were
constantly fighting with one another.
6. Q. What was the strange and terrible religion of the Britons called?
A. The religion of the Druids.
7. Q. What sacrifice is it certain that the Druidical ceremonies
included? A. The sacrifice of human beings.
8. Q. What did the Druids build? A. Great temples and altars open to the
sky, fragments of some of which are yet remaining.
9. Q. Which is the most extraordinary of these erections? A. Stonehenge,
on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire.
10. Q. What are the names of six prominent Romans that came to Britain
during the Roman occupancy? A. Aulus Plautus, Suetonius, Agricola,
Hadrian, Severus and Caracalla.
11. Q. What are the names of three leaders of the Britons who opposed
the efforts of the Romans in their efforts to subdue the islanders? A.
Cassivellaunus, Caractacus, and Boadicea.
12. Q. By whom was a wall built across the north of Britain, and for what
purpose? A. First by the Emperor Hadrian, of earth, and afterward rebuilt
of stone by the Emperor Severus, to protect Britain from the Picts and
Scots.
13. Q. After the departure of the Romans, from whom did the Britons ask
help to repel the invasions of the Picts and Scots? A. The Angles and
Saxons from North Germany.
14. Q. After defeating the Picts and Scots what conquest did the Angles
and Saxons then attempt? A. That of Britain itself.
15. Q. What two brother chieftains were leaders of the early invasions of
the Saxons? A. Hengist and Horsa.
16. Q. What name is especially famous among those who resisted the
Saxons? A. That of King Arthur.
17. Q. What was the religion of the Saxon conquerors of Britain? A.
Paganism.
18. Q. About the year 600 A. D. who were sent by Pope Gregory to England
as missionaries? A. St. Augustine and forty monks.
19. Q. What Pagan king became a convert to the Christian faith, through
the labors of these missionaries? A. Ethelbert, the king of Kent.
20. Q. On the Christmas after the baptism of the king, how many of the
people, is it related, followed his example? A. Ten thousand.
21. Q. Who first united the seven Saxon kingdoms called the Heptarchy
into one kingdom called England? A. Egbert of Essex, in 827.
22. Q. How long did the Saxon line, beginning with Egbert, govern
England? A. For 190 years.
23. Q. Who was the most eminent among the kings of this line? A. Alfred
the Great.