The survey record book carried out under William the Conqueror is known as what?

• A. Doomsday Records
• B. Great Survey
• C. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• D. Domesday Book

Answer: (D)

The essential idea is a royal survey undertaken to map landholdings, resources, and value across England for tax and feudal purposes. William the Conqueror ordered this comprehensive reckoning, and the final record that results from it is known as the Domesday Book. It earned that name because it was meant to deliver a final, undeniable judgment about who owned what and what it was worth, much like a day of doom in law. Some sources refer to the project as the Great Survey, since it described the entire survey, but the lasting, widely used title for the written record is the Domesday Book. The other options aren’t the names of this record—the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a separate narrative of events, and Doomsday Records isn’t the established title for this document.