WEBQUEST THE NORMANS

 

KEY QUESTIONS- webquest

When was the Norman Conquest? 

What were the causes and events of the Norman Conquest? 

What was the result of the Norman Conquest?What was the Bayeux Tapestry?

How did the success of the Norman Conquest transform England?                                                                          

What was the Domesday book?

What was their language?

http://projectbritain.com/history/Normanbritain.html

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/normans#:~:text=Top%2010%20facts,1066%20against%20the%20Anglo%2DSaxons.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/norman/surprising-facts-william-conqueror-norman-conquest-harold-godwinson-battle-stamford-bridge-when-what/

THE WEBQUEST

1.The Norman Conquest began in 1066 

 

2.The Normans invaded England in 1066 because they wanted to have Norman king in England after the Anglo-Saxon king died. They eventually defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings, when King Harold II was killed.

 

3.The Normans ruled England for about 300 years

 

4.More than 100,000 people died as a result of the Norman conquest, the battle of Falkirk, fought between Edward I and William Wallace in 1298, was one of the largest engagements in medieval Britain, with almost 30,000 men on the English side alone, but not so much as a single arrowhead has ever been unearthed

 

 5.The Norman conquest introduced castles, chivalry to Britain and banned the English slave trade 

 

6.Domesday Book is a manuscript, a record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

 

Imagine you’re a journalist and you interview William The Conqueror about the battle of Hastings and his first days in England as a king.

Interviewer: Tell me something about yourself

William the conqueror: I am William 1, I’m  usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the bastard. I'm the first Norman monarch of England, I ruled England from 1066 until my death in 1087, I’m the descendant of Rollo.

 

Interviewer:What role did you have before ruling England?

William the conqueror:I was the duke of Normandy from 1035 onward

 

Interviewer: What did you do in England?

William the conqueror: I built many castles, set the new Norman nobility on the land and changed the composition of the English clergy

 

Interviewer:Why were your last years very difficult for you?

William the conqueror:My final years were marked by difficulties in my continental domains, troubles with my son, Robert, and threatened invasions of England by the Danes.

 

Interviewer:When and where did you die?

William the conqueror:I died in September 1087 while leading a campaign in northern France, and then I was buried in Caen.