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Before Norman Conquest
I. Early settlement (… --- 55B.C.)
Pre-great Ice Age: Great Britain was joined to the Continent of Europe. Cave men, stone age man.
The severing of the landbridge, about 6000-5000 B.C.
3000BC.Iberians from Mediterranean lands. Neolithicculture.
The Celtic tribes:750BC. Gaels. 500 B.C. Britons. 100 B.C. Belgae from Gaul.
II. Roman Occupation (55 B.C. ---410A.D)
55&54 B.C. Julius Caesar, the Roman Emperor. No permanent results.
43 A.D. Claudius, the Roman Emperor, led Roman legions to invade Britain. The Hardrian’s Wall, Christianity.
III. Anglo-Saxon’s Heptarchy came into being (410-871)
449 A.D. pirates, Germanic tribes: Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
heroic resistance: King Arthur (Round Table Knights)
Anglo-Saxon Conquest or Teutonic Conquest.
IV. Vikings Invasion and Danish Rule.
Around the turn of 8th century, the Danes, or Vikings, Invaded England. |
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