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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Gloucester History I
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Who establsihed Gloucester as an early inland port ?

 

Saxons
Celts
Romans
Welsh

 In AD 49 the main army encampment was established at ?

 

Chedworth
Kingswood
Gt Witcombe
Kingsholme
In its early history which commodities made Gloucester important ?

 

Wool / Iron
Wool / Lamb
Beef / Lamb
Wool / Wood

 In the 9th Century St Peters Abbey was

 

Burnt Down
Replaced with stone
Destroyed
Sacked
After the Normainvasion the Abbey grew from 10 brethren to

 

Over 100
Over 500
Over 1000
Nearly 50

 In AD 681 Osric, viceroy to King Ethelred of Mercia, established what in Gloucester ?

 

Castle
St Peters Abbey
School
Further fortifications
Barnwood is a classic archeological site with remains traced to just after the

 

Stone Age
Bronze Age
Ice Age
Iron Age

 The area at Gloucester was important to the Romans as it was

 

Near Wales
Severn was crossable & navigable
Remote
Near Cirencester
In 1088 the Abbey at Gloucester was ?

 

Destroyed by fire
Dissolved
Consecrated
Sacked

 The Roman name given to Gloucester was ?

 

Glevum
Corinium
Aquae Sulis
Verulanium


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