History of Great Britain

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Early History of Britain

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Among archeological remains found in Britain mainly in England and Wales one can see human and animal bones as well as some pieces of pottery hidden inside burial mounds. They date from the Stone Age. The best known prehistoric monument left by inhabitants of the Stone Age is Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain with the circles of huge stones inside.

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Queen Boadicea Around 700 BC Celts arrived from Central Europe and began to establish their culture in Britain The Celtic men wore shirts and breeches (knee-length trousers) and striped cloaks fastened by a pin

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Julius Caesar Hadrian’s WallThere were3 diff erent kinds of town in Roman Britain: 1. Coloniae -towns peopled by Roman sett lers; 2. Municipia -large citi es in which the whole populati on was given Roman citi zenship 3. Civitas -included the old Celti c tribal capitals The Romans invaded Britain many ti mes and again in AD 43. But they couldn’t make it part of the Roman Empire unti l about 100s years later only Southern Britain became Britannia, a province of the Roman Empire.

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SEVEN KINGDOMS: 3 POWERFUL GERMANIC TRIBES: THE SAXONS, ANGLES AND JUTES ATTACKED THE COUNTRY AND BEGAN TO SETTLE. THE ANGLO- SAXONS GAVE THE LARGER PART OF BRITAIN ITS NEW NAME ENGLAND, “THE LAND OF THE ANGLES”

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Christianity Pope Gregory wanted spread his influence over England by converting the people to Christianity. He sent monks to convert the Anglo- Saxons.The monks landed in Kent and the 1 st church they built in the town of Canterbury

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King Alfred the Great King Egbert

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King Canute King Edward the Confessor Westminster Abbey William the ConquerorWhite Tower The Norman Conquest The Growth of Feudalism

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The Scottish tribes: 1. The Picts 2. The Scots 3. The Britons 4. The Angles

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