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THE ORIGINS OF GREAT BRITAIN:
A STORY OF INVASIONS
The Danes
They were sea people
In the 9th century they settled in Grain Britain
793:
They sacked Lindisfarne taking the monks as slaves
They established Danelaw which was a code of Danish laws
Their language marged with the local one
They set up colonies creating a "Norseman" colture round the coasts of Europe
The Anglo-Saxons
5th and 6th century
Peoples from Northern Europe came in Britain
Angles
Referred as
Anglo-Saxons
Settled south of Hadrien's Wall
Their society
Clans
Chiefs
7th Century
Their kingdoms' boundaries had formed
Didn't change until the 829
Saxons
Jutes
Alfred the Great
Became king of Wessex in 871
Reorganised the army
Defeated the Danish commander
Battle of Edington in 878
Built fortress
Invited scholar from the continent
Latin text were translated
Church school opened
New legal code
Died in 899
Athelstan
Establishing the idea of royal authority and coinage
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Pre-Celtic Britain
4000 BC
: Forests burnt and cut to grow cereals and breed animals
3000 BC:
Ritual sites built for both ceremonies and defence
Stonehenge
Bronze Age:
Start of metalworking and manufacturing
Pottery and salt
Leather and cloth
The Celts
700 BC:
Arrival from Germany
Languages
Gaelic in Scotland and Ireland
Welsh in Wales
Innovations
Iron Plough
Terraformation
Built of massive hill forts on top of hills surrounded by ditches
Gender Equality
Choose of the man they wanted to marry
Possibility to lead other warriors in war
Boadicea
Religion
Druids
Important for:
Religion, justice,education and medicine
Worshipping of natural elements
Sun, moon, trees...
World beyond death
Eternal soul
The Romans
43-47 AD:
Emperor Claudius conquered Britain
South
Rich agricolture
West
tin and lead
122 AD:
Hadrian ordered a wall
Between
The unconquered Scots and Picts
The conquered Britons
Romans built over 9,600 km of paved roads
Functions
Military purpose
Troop movement
Movement of commercial goods
Connections between towns
originally army camps
"
castra
"
Manchester
Lanchester
Glouchester
Londinium
Romans brought their colture
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409 AD:
End of Roman hegemony
