A number of better-designed bronze socie ty continued to be ce ntred on a number of swords have been found in the Thames va lley, hen ges ac ross the co untryside. Man y of these swords have civilisation seems to have become less important , been found in river beds, almost ce rtain ly thrown and was overtaken by a new form of society in in for religious reason s.
This custom may be the southern England, that of a settled farming class. T he new farmers grew wealth y beca use th ey learn ed to enr ich the soil with natural waste mate rials so that it did not beco me poor and The Celts useless. This change probably happened at about Around BC , ano ther grou p of people began to th e same time th at the ch alk uplands were arrive.
Man y of them were tall, and had fair or red becoming drier. Famil y villages and fort ified hair and blue eyes. These were the C elts, who enclosures appeared across the land scape, in lower- prob ably came from central Europe or furthe r eas t, lying areas as well as on th e chalk hill s, and th e o ld from southe rn Russia, and had moved slowly central control of Sto nehenge and th e othe r henges westwards in earlier centuries. The Cel ts were was lost. It is possible th at th ey drove many of the o lder inh abitants westwards into W" les, Sco tland and Ireland.
T he Ce lts began to control "11 th e lowland areas of Britain, and were joined bv new arriva ls from the European mainl an d. They co n tinued to arrive in one wave after anot her over the nex t seve n hundred years. The Celts are important in British histor y because they "re th e ances tors of ma ny of the peop le in Highland Scot land. W" les, Ireland, and Cornwall today. The Iberian peop le of W" ]es and C ornwall rook on the new Cel tic culture. Cel tic languages, which have been con tinuously used in some areas since that time , "re still spoken.
T he British today "re often descri bed as Anglo-Saxon. It would he better to ca ll them A nglo-Celr. Our knowledge of the C elts is sligh t. As with previous groups of settlers, we do not eve n know for certain whe ther the Celts invaded Brita in or came peacefullv as a result of the lively trade with Europe fron, "hour ne o nwa rds, At first most of C elt ic Britain seems to have developed in a gen erally similar way.
But from about ne trade contact with Europe declined , and regiona l differen ces betwee n northw est and so utheast Britain increased.
Th e C el ts were orga nised int o different tribes, and tribal ch iefs were chose n from eac h famil y or tribe , The Swnu1ckrum. The simple fines mul lack uf derail Ml'e 11 t'CT ptJU'crful individuals, and some times bv elect ion. It was natural for th em to settle in th e However, they co ntinued ro use, and build, hill - southeas t of Britain , proba bly pushing o the r Ce ltic forts. T he inc rease of th ese, part icularly in the tribes northwards as th ey did so.
Ar any rate , when southeast, suggests th at the Ce lts were highl y [ulius Caesar briefl y visited Britain in 55 IlC he saw successful farmers, growing eno ugh food for a much that the Belgic tri bes were different from the older larger populat ion. Nearly " 11 of th ese still keep th e names of ca pita ls and smaller "town s" of th e different tribal the [European] tribes from which the y came.
Toda y The C elt ic tr ibes continued th e same kind of the empty hill -forts stand on lonel y hill tops. Yet agriculture as th e Bronze Age peop le before th em. For example, there was an woman , Boadicea. She had beco me queen of her annual Septe mber fair on the site of a Dorset hill- tribe when her husband had died.
She was tall, fort, which was used by th e write r T homas Hardy in with long red hair, and had a frighten ing his novel Far from the Madding Crowd, published in appea rance. In AD 6 1 she led her tribe against the She nearly dro ve the m from Britain, and she destroyed Lond on, the Roma n capital, before The C elts traded across tribal borde rs and trade was she was defeat ed and killed. Roman writers probably importan t for political and social contact comme nted on the courage and strength of women between th e tribes.
Trade with Ireland went in battl e, and leave an impr ession of a measure of through the island of A nglesey. The two main trade equa lity betwee n the sexes among the richer C elts.
It is no acc ident tha t The Romans the presen t-day cap ita ls of England and Sco tla nd The name "Brita in" comes from the word stand on or near these two ancient trade ce ntres.
T he Romans mispronounced co nducted by river and sea. For money the C elts the word and called th e island " Brita nnia". The Rom an s had invaded beca use th e Celts of Brit ain were working with th e C elts of G au l against According to the Rom an s, the Celtic men wore th em. T he British C elts were giving the m food, an d sh irts and breec hes knee-length trousers , and allowing th em to h ide in Brit ain.
There was str iped or chec ked cloaks fastened by a pin. It is anot he r reason. The C elts used cattle to pull their possible that the Sco tt ish tarta n and dress ploughs and th is meant that rich er, heavier land developed from th is "str iped cloak".
The C elts were could be farmed. Und er the Celts Britain had also "very careful about cleanl iness and neatness" , become an important food producer because of its as one Roman wrote. It now exported co rn and an ima ls, as he went on, "howeve r poor, was seen eithe r ragged well as hunting dogs and slaves , to th e Europea n or dirt y.
T he Roman s cou ld make use of Brit ish T he Ce ltic tribes were ruled ove r by a warrior class, food for thei r own army fighting the Gauls. These Druids writing to Britain.
Th e written word was important could not read or write, but they memorised all the for spreading ideas and also for estab lish ing power. The Dru ids from different trib es all ove r the liberal art s.. They had no who used to reject Latin began to use it in speec h temples, but the y met in sacred groves of trees, on and writ ing.
Further the wearing of our national certain hills, by rivers or by river sources. We kn ow dress came to be valued and the toga [the Roman littl e of their kind of worship except th at at times it cloak] came into fash ion.
W hen the Romans invaded the co unt ry almost certa in ly used Latin. Bur Latin Britain two of th e largest tribes were ruled by co mpletely disappea red both in its spoken and wome n who fought from their cha riots.
Britain was probably Germanic groups, Saxon s and Frank s, began to raid more literate under the Romans than it was to be the coast of Gaul, In A D Rome pulled its last again until the fifteenth century.
The following year Rome itself fell to a Roman army actu ally occupied Britain. The raiders. W hen Brita in called to Rome for he lp Romans were de termined to conquer the whole against the raiders from Saxon G erma ny in th e island. They had little difficulty, apart from mid-fifth century, no answer came. Boadicea's revolt , beca use they had a better trained army and beca use the Celtic tribes fought among themselves.
The Romans co nsidered the Celts as war-mad , "high spirited and quick for bat tle", a Roman life descripti on some wou ld st ill give the Scots, Irish The most obvious cha racteristic of Roman Britain and Wel sh today. Many grew out of The Rom an s established a Romano-British culture Celtic settlements , military camps or market across the sout hern half of Britain , from the River centres.
Broad ly, ther e were three different kinds of Humber to the River Sev ern. T his part of Brita in town in Roman Britain , two of which were towns was inside th e emp ire. Beyond were the upland estab lished by Roman cha rter.
T hese were the areas, under Roman con tro l but not developed. The third Britain th at later becam e kn own as Wales. Each of kind, the civitas, included th e old C elt ic tr ibal these towns was held by a Roman legion of about cap itals, through which th e Roman s ad min istered 7, men.
The total Roman army in Britain was the C eltic popu lat ion in the countryside. At first about 40, men. Then, probably from the The Romans co uld not conquer "Ca ledoni a" , as end of the seco nd cen tury to the end of the thi rd they called Scotla nd , although they spent over a century AD, almost every town was given walls.
At century trying to do so. At last they bu ilt a strong fi rst man y of the se were no more than earthworks, wall along the northern border, named after the but by AD all towns had thick stone walls.
Emperor Hadrian who planned it. At the time , Hadrian's wall was simply intended to keep out The Romans left about twenty large towns of about raiders from the north. But it also marked the 5, inhabitants, and almost one hundred smaller border between th e two later countries, England ones. Man y of thes e towns were at first army camps, and Scotland. Eventually, th e border was and the Latin word for camp, castra, has remain ed established a few miles furt her north.
Efforts to part of many town name s to this day with th e change it in later centuries did no t succeed , mainly ending chester, caster or cesrer : G loucester, Lei- cester, Doncaster, Winch ester, Chester, Lancaster because on either side of the border an invadin g army found its supply line overstre tched.
A natural and many others besides. These towns were built point of balance had been found. So me build ings had Roman co nt rol of Britain came to an end as the central heating. They were connected by roads empir e began to collapse. The first signs were th e which were so well built that th ey survived when attacks by C elts of C aled onia in AD T he later roads broke up.
These roads contin ued to be Roman legions found it more and more difficult to used long after the Roman s left , and became the stop the raiders from crossing Hadrian 's wall. The main roads of modern Brita in. London was twice the size of Paris, and It is very difficult to be sure how man y peop le were possibly the most important trading cent re of livin g in Britain when the Romans left. Probably it northern Europe , because southeast Britain was as man y as five million. The new wave O utside the towns, the biggest change during the of in vaders cha nged all that.
Roman occ upation was the growth of large farms, ca lled "vi llas". These belonged fa rh e richer Brito ns who were, like the tow nspeop le, more Roman than Celt in thei r manners. Each villa had many workers. The vill as were usually close to tow ns so th at the crops co uld be sold easily. There was a grow ing difference betwee n the rich and those who did the actual work on th e land. T hese. In some ways life in Roman Britain seems ve ry c ivilised.
The bodies buried in a Roman graveyard at York show tha t life expectancy was low. Half the ent ire populatio n died between the ages of twenty and forty. The newcom ers were warlike and o l 00 km illiterate. We owe our knowledge of thi s period Whilby mainly to an English monk named Bede, who lived.
York three hundred yea rs later. H is sto ry of eve nts in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People has been proved generally corr ect by archaeological ,, evidence.
The [utes settle d mainly in Kent and along "" , the south coas t, and were soon considered no dif- ferent from the Angles and Saxons. T he A ngles settled in the east, and also in the no rth Midlands, while the Saxons settled betwee n the [ utes and the Angles in a band of land from the Thames Estuary westwards.
Some C elts stayed behind, and The Brit ish C elts fought the raiders and settlers man y became slaves of the Saxons. Hardl y anyth ing from Ge rmany as well as th ey co uld. However , is left of Ce ltic lan guage or culture in England , during th e next hundred years the y were slowly except for th e names of some rivers, Thames, pushed westwards until by they were forced Mersey, Severn and Avon , and two large cities, west of Gl oucester.
Finally most were driven into Lond on and Leeds. Some C elts were driven into even today. Days of the week were na med afte r Co rnwa ll, whe re they lat er accep ted th e rule of Ge rmanic gods: Ti g Tu esday , Wod in Saxon lords. New into the lowlands of th e country which became place-names appeared on th e map. However, thi ngs were C elt ic ones, were family villages.
The ending -ing cha nging. The Saxon kin gs began to replace loyalty meant folk or family, thu s "Reading" is rhe place of to family with loyalty to lord and kin g. Ham means farm, ton means settlement. Birmingha m, Nottingham or Southampton , for Government and society example, are Saxon place-n ames. Because th e The Saxons created institution s wh ich made the A nglo-Saxon kin gs ofte n esta blished sett lements , English state strong for the next years. O ne of Kingston is a frequent place-na me.
T he W itan probab ly grew out of inform al kin gdoms, some of wh ich still ex ist in county or group s of sen ior warriors and churchmen to who m regio nal names to th is day: Essex East Sa xons , kings like O ffa had turned fo r advice or support on Sussex South Saxons , Wessex W est Saxons , difficult matters. By th e tenth centu ry the Witan Middlesex probably a kingdom of Midd le Saxons , was a formal body, issuing laws and ch arte rs. It was East Anglia East Angles.
By the midd le of the not at all democrat ic, and th e king co uld decide to seventh cent ury th e three largest kingdoms, th ose ignore the W itan's ad vice. But he kn ew that it of Northu mbria, Merc ia and We ssex, were the might be dangerous to do so. For the W itan's most powerful. W ithout its support th e kin g's own author ity was in dan ger. The W itan established a system wh ich remained an importan t part of th e kin g's method of govern ment.
Hi5 coins were of a higher quality than any coins used since the departureof the Romans four hundred years earlier, The Saxons div ided th e lan d into new admin is- Right: A gold coin of King Offa, a direa cop ' of an Arabdinar of the year trative areas, based on shires. These AD It shows how greal uere the distances cOt"eTed by international trade at this time. Norman one, but both are st ill used.
In th e counties were reorganised, but the new system is It was not until a century late r that one of these very like the old one. Over eac h shire was ap- kings, King Offa of Mercia , claimed pointed a shire reeve, the king's local administrator. He had good reason to In time his name became sho rtened to "sheriff".
He was powerful eno ugh to employ thou- Ang lo-Saxon technology cha nged the shape of sands of men to build a huge dyke, or eart h wall, English agricu lture. The C elts had kept small, th e len gth of the Welsh borde r to keep out th e square fields which were well suited to the light trou blesom e Celts.
But altho ugh he was th e most plough they used, drawn either by an an imal or two powerful kin g of his time, he did not co ntro l all of peop le. T h is plough could turn co rners easily. The England. Anglo-Saxons introduced a far heavier plough T he power of Mercia did not survive after O ffa's which was better able to plough in long straigh t death.
A t that time, a king's power depended on lines across th e field. It was part icularly useful for the person al loyalty of h is followers. Aft er his death cu lt ivating heavier soils. But it requ ired six or eight the next king had to work hard ro rebu ild these oxen to pull it , an d it was difficult to turn. T his personal feelings of loyalty. Most peop le still heavier plough led to changes in land owne rsh ip believed, as the Celts had don e, that a man' s fi rst and organ isation.
A s a result. In eac h distri ct was a "man or" or large house. T hi s was a simple bui lding wh ere local villagers ca me to pay taxes, whe re justice was ad min istered. The lord of the man or h ad to organ ise all th is. It was th e begin n ing of th e man or ial syste m wh ich reached its fullest development un der th e Normans. Recomtrucrion of an Anglo-Sa:wn I. Each house had prob. The pit may Mve been officials.
But by th e begin n ing of th e el eventh used for storage, bur mort' probably to keep che house off the damp ground. The UIOTd "lord" means "loaf u. It was the beginning of a cl ass village land. T hese were then div ided aga in in to on th e lan d. O n e other important class de veloped long th in str ips.
Each family had a number of str ips during th e Saxon period. Plough ing these long th in strips was easier because it avo ided Christianity: the partnership of the prob lem of tu rn ing. Few in dividual fam ilies cou ld afford to keep a team of oxe n. We ca n no t kno w how or wh en C h ristia n ity first reach ed Britain.
The C onsran t ine in the early fourt h ce n tury AD. In th e th ird area would be left to rest for a year. T his A nglo- Britain , bo th in Roman-control led areas and Saxon patte rn, wh ich became more and more beyond. C elts into the west and n orth. In th e Ce ltic areas It needs on ly a moment's thought to recog n ise th at C h rist ian ity co ntin ued to spread.
T he map of W ales sho ws a num be r of the sens ible man agement of village land sha red out place-names beginning or end ing with llan. In r ope G regory the G rea t sen t a monk. The Saxons ser tled previou sly un fanned areas. They A ugustine. In spite of the difference s between Anglo-Saxon s and Ce lts, these bishop s seem to have been readil y acce pted in Anglo-Saxon areas.
The bishops from the Roma n C hurch lived at th e cou rts of the kin gs, which they made cent res of C hurch power across Englan d. The two C hrist ian C hurches, Celt ic and Roman , co uld hardly have been more different in character. O ne was most interested in the hearts of ordinary people , the other was interested in authority and organ isation. Th e competition between the Cel tic and Roman C hu rches reached a crisis because they disagreed over th e date of Easter. In at the Synod meet ing of W h itby the king of Northumbria decided to support the Roman C hurch.
T he C elt ic C h urch retreat ed as Rome extended its authority ove r all Christians , eve n in C elt ic parts of th e island.
England had become C hrist ian very quickly. By only Sussex and th e Isle of W ight had not accepted th e new faith. T wen ty years lat er, English teache rs returned to the lands from which th e An glo-Saxon s had co me, bringing C hristianity to much of G ermany.
Saxon kin gs helped th e C hurch to grow, but th e The opening page of St Luke's Gospel, made al the Northumbrian island of C hurch also incre ased the power of kings. Kings had "God's in from the storms of rain and snowourside. It flies in al one door, acTOS5 the approval ". A n eldest son did not automa tically teUs U! In Europe and was already C hristian. A ugust ine addit ion , at a time whe n one king might try to becam e th e first A rchb ishop of Canterbury in 60 I.
Severa l ruling families in probably have a son to whom he wou ld wish to pass England accept ed C hristian ity. But A ugustine and thi s en larged kingdom when he died.
Ami so when h is group of monk s made little progress with th e King Offa arranged for his son to be crow ned as his ordina ry people. This was partl y beca use Augustin e successor, he made sure that this was done at a was interested in estab lish ing C hr istia n authority, C h rist ian ceremony led by a bishop. It was good and that meant brin ging rulers to th e new faith. It was the Celtic C hurch which brought C hristianity to the ord ina ry peop le of Britain. The There were other ways in which th e C hurch Celtic bishops went out from their mon asteries of increased th e power of th e English state.
These mona ste ries tra ine d the men who could read and write, so th at they had the necessary Towards th e end of th e eigh th cent ury new raider s skills for th e growth of royal and C hurch autho rity. These were the Th e king who made most use of the C hurch was Vikings, a word wh ich prob ably means eirhe r A lfred, the great kin g who ruled Wessex from "pir ates" or "t he peop le of th e sea inlets", and the y Directory List 2.
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