Pilt 2

British History

  • the Celts
    500 BCE

    the Celts

    1. the Brythons-the Britons
    2. tamed and bred animals
    3. made coarse cloth, learned the art of pottery, made things of wool, metal and copper
    4. were good warriors-smelted iron, produced stronger weapons
    5. cruel religion
    6. the ancestor of the Gaelic and Welsh languages
  • Period: 787 to 1066

    the Vikings

    fierce pagan seafaring warriors
    the Danelaw
    after the king´s, Alfred the Great, death, attacks resumed