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KPK 9a The History of Britain

By Marilyn ja Marie
  • Britain became an island
    6000 BCE

    Britain became an island

    The land bridge connecting Britain to the mainland was covered by water
  • Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE

    The Bronze Age

    During this time, people used tools mostly made of broze
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    The Iberians

    During this time, the Brithis Isles were inhabited by the Iberians, who were Stone Age people.
    •limestone caves
    •tools of stone and bone
  • 2000 BCE

    End of the Stone Age

  • Megalithic monuments
    2000 BCE

    Megalithic monuments

    These huge stone monumentes were made by people of Iberian decent
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 500

    The Iron Age

    During this time, people used tools made mostly of iron, which produced stronger weapons than broze
  • The Celtic invasion
    500 BCE

    The Celtic invasion

    •smelting iron
    •good warriors and farmers
    •nature gods; druids; misteltoe
  • The first Roman invasion
    55 BCE

    The first Roman invasion

    Julius Caesar reached Gaul, made two raids to Britain
  • Period: 43 to 410

    The second Roman invasion

    Emperor Claudius conquered Britain for almost four centuries
    •advanced civilasation
    •bridges, houses, paved roads, public baths
    •Christianity
    •left to protect Rome
  • Hadrian's Wall
    122

    Hadrian's Wall

    •raiding Picts
  • The beginning of Viking attacks
    787

    The beginning of Viking attacks

    •raids in Britain, Scotland and Ireland (churches and monasteries)
    •stole sacred objects
    •conquered all Anglo-Saxon kingdoms except Wessex
  • 886

    Danelaw

    •Alfred the Great (Wessex), Guthrum (Danish king of East Anglia)
    •England divided
  • Period: 1016 to 1035

    Canute

    Ruled after Alfred the Great
    •wise, just king
  • Period: 1042 to 1066

    Edward the Confessor

    Last Anglo-Saxon king
    •Westminster Abbey
    •no direct heirs, crown to Harold Goodwin, brother-in-law
  • 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    Duke William defeated king Harold, was crowned king of England
    •land was devided among lords and the English became a servile class
  • Oxford University
    1168

    Oxford University

    Latin, medicine, grammar, theology etc.
  • Cambridge University
    1209

    Cambridge University

  • 1400

    Languages combined

    Norman-French (aristocracy) + Anglo-Saxon German (commoners)= Middle English