What Period of English History Do You Belong In?

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
4 min
What Period of English History Do You Belong In?
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About This Quiz

English history is rich and varied, reaching back thousands of years. Within all that history are distinct historical periods, some pleasant and peaceful, others filled with conquest, blood, and fear. England was first settled in the stone age when mysterious pagans built the famous stone circles of the British Isles. 

Later, the pre-Christian English met the Roman legions and occasionally fought with them. By the middle ages, England had a Christian monarch, and by the Renaissance, that monarch had broken with the Catholic Church, forever changing England's relationship with the rest of Europe.

The industrial revolution began in England, with the steam engine, the railroad, and factories. Between English ego and the power of technology, industry and the British Empire spread around the world, ultimately displacing French as the Lingua Franca, and laying the groundwork for America's place in the modern world. 

England has been at war with nearly every nation in the world, and yet it is almost universally respected for its brand of democracy and its culture.

Are you tough enough to survive a Viking raid, or would you rather play the dangerous game of Elizabethan politics? Would you fly high in World War 2, or fight alongside Boudica, trying to push the Romans out of England? What period of English history do you belong in? Let's find out!

If you had your druthers, what would you do first thing in the morning?
Brush my teeth
Read the business pages
Pray
Eat

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What do you like the most about the USA?
The free culture
The power of the economy
Its religious fervor
Its vast, untamed spaces

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Which European nation are you most likely to visit on vacation?
France
Italy
Germany
Romania

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When visiting a new city, where would you go sightseeing?
The clubs
The harbor
The churches
The museums

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How do you like to listen to music?
On a record player
From a booming orchestra
From a church choir
From bards

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What do you need to be comfortable?
An electric fan
Piles of money
A quiet place to contemplate
Wine

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What is your personal code?
Don't be cruel
For the greater glory of my people
Chivalry
Protect your family and your people

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What is the best thing about religion?
It stays mostly out of my life
It's a guiding hand that keeps society from spinning out of control
It's a tie that binds us all together in the darkness
Its mystery

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What kind of clothing do you like to wear?
Form fitting fashion forward
Very conservative
Eccentric, with layers of fabric
Minimalist

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How important is social mobility to you?
It's very important to me
It's important, but not from every strata of society
It's unimportant to me
It's a little important to me, but not hugely important

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How do you like to get around?
By plane
By train
I like to ride
I like to walk

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How religious are you?
Not at all
Very, by today's standards, but I don't see myself as very religious
Very
Moderately

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How comfortable are you with the sight of blood?
I don't like it at all!
It's okay if it's not mine
Sometimes, I want to see some blood
Very

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How important is peace to you?
We should give it a chance
Piff! War is the order of history!
Peace is very important, once we get the French!
I'd rather things be peaceful, but sometimes you don't have a choice

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Do you have good business judgement?
Pretty decent
I have excellent business judgement
No, I'm very top-down in my management style
Not at all good

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How ruthless are you?
I'm a soft touch
I'm the most ruthless person in the world!
I'm ruthless within reason
I'm only ruthless with things, not people

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How healthy are you?
I have a few chronic conditions I keep under control
I've had my shots
I rarely fall ill
I am the genetically gifted picture of health

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Are you superstitious?
Only when it comes to cricket
Only when it comes to keeping my skin covered
Only when it comes to witches
Only when it comes to if the sun will come up in the morning

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How much do you enjoy travel?
I like to spend short periods in different places
I like to go far, and stay there a long time
I don't like to travel more than a few hundred miles from where I live
I'd like to stay in one place forever

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How many languages do you speak?
Two
Six
Three
One

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What sort of menial job sounds like the most fun to you?
Recording engineer
A train's fireman
Stone mason
Farmer

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What would be the best thing about being the monarch?
All the glory, little responsibility
Getting to help out your best friends
Getting to declare war on someone you just had dinner with
Not paying the Danegeld

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Who would you most want to meet, back in time?
Graham Chapman
Joseph Bazalgette
Francis Walsingham
Boudica

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What weapon would you least mind having to carry around?
A Walther PPK
A blunderbuss
A hand and a half sword
A dagger

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What middle class job sounds like the most fun?
Factory manager
Accountant
Shipwright
Builder

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What dangerous job would be most interesting to you?
Spy
Railroad surveyor
Battlefield infantry
Fisherman

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Which English monarch would you most want to meet?
Elizabeth II
Victoria
Elizabeth I
Aethelred II

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What food item could you not live without?
Marmite
Potatoes
Quince jelly
Mutton

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What would you bring with you from the future?
The smart phone
The airplane
Gunpowder
The blast furnace

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Who would you most like as an enemy?
Russia
Spain
France
Denmark

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