Complete this description of the early historian of Paris with the correct past simple form of the irregular verbs in brackets.

The site of modern-day Paris was founded by a Celtic tribe called the Parisii. They established a fishing village near the river Seine. Paris's lands 1. .............. (be) prosperous. Later, the area 2. (come) under Roman control. They 3. .............. (build) a massive fort on the lle de la Cité because the island 4. .............. (have) the river as additional protection. Under Roman rule the town 5. .............. (grow) considerably. The Roman Empire 6. .............. (fall) in the 5th century. Clovis, king of the Franks 7. .............. (make) Paris the capital of his kingdom. The population of the island grew and the city 8. .............. (become) unsanitary and vulnerable to plague. The rulers moved the city to a new location on the right bank. In 1163, the construction of Notre Dame 9. .............. (begin). It 10. .............. (take) almost two centuries to complete this masterpiece of gothic architecture.