What is Wessex?
Q: What is Wessex?
A: Wessex was one of the seven kingdoms of the British Heptarchy during the early Middle Ages.
Q: What were the seven kingdoms of the British Heptarchy?
A: The seven kingdoms were Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex.
Q: When did the Great Heathen Army arrive in East Anglia?
A: The Great Heathen Army arrived in East Anglia in 865.
Q: Who defeated the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms?
A: The Danes, also known as Vikings, defeated the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Q: Which was the only kingdom not destroyed by the Vikings?
A: Wessex was the only remaining kingdom not destroyed by the Vikings.
Q: Who made Wessex the core of a unified England?
A: Alfred the Great made Wessex the core of a unified England.
Q: Who was the first King of England?
A: Athelstan, Alfred the Great's grandson, was the first King of England.
