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UNIT 1

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  • 50,000 BCE

    Paleolithic (50,000 BC – 25,000 BC)

    Oldest evidences of human existance in British lands
  • Neolithic period (10000 BC - 3000 BC)
    10,000 BCE

    Neolithic period (10000 BC - 3000 BC)

    Hunting, fishing and gathering.
    Separation from the continent.
    Island become heavily forested.
  • 3000 BCE

    Stonehenge - Iberians / Africans (from 3000 BC to 2400 BC)

    People from the Iberian Peninsula and the North of Africa arrived and started to make pottery, keep animals, grow corn --> they became sedentary.
    Build "henges": cottage with wood and stones inside circles.
  • 2400 BCE

    Beaker (from 2400 BC to 600 BC)

    New Indo-europeans groups arrived.
    They were taller.
    They became leaders.
  • Period: 600 BCE to 43

    Celtic tribes

    Dominated both England and Ireland.
    Advanced in the use of iron to make weapons, very good farmers (grow cereals in heavier soils, trade and export).
    Red/blonde hair + blue/green eyes.
    Built forts on hills.
    Huge differences between North Celtics and South Celtics.
    Warriors and Druids (priests) managed the tribes.
    Didn't read or write but memorized by heart (legends, recipes, teachings....).
  • Romans arrived
    43

    Romans arrived

  • Period: 43 to 409

    Roman period

    Romans arrived in Britain (not Ireland nor Scotland = "Caledonia"). They set up from River Severn to River Humber and build Walls on both sides to protect from Celtic attaks.
    Romans encreased the economy: divided the towns in streets, bulit roads, shops, markets and buildings with heating.
  • 6th Century: 3 Germanic tribes arrive to England: Angles, Saxons and Jutes
    449

    6th Century: 3 Germanic tribes arrive to England: Angles, Saxons and Jutes

    From southern Denmark and northern Germany
  • Period: 450 to 1006

    Old English

  • Period: 500 to 1485

    Middle Ages

    England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the Early Modern period in 1485.
    Advances in medicine, literature, art, cience.
  • Period: 500 to 600

    6th Century

    Old English was created.
    England was converted to Christianism.
    Benedictine reform in the English Church: monks can't get married anymore.
    Elegiac, Religious and Heroic verses in poetry + prose:
    -Poetry: single meter in a four-stress line, alliteration, caesura, Kenning.
    -Prose: law code.
  • Period: 600 to 700

    7th Century

  • Period: 700 to 800

    8th Century

  • "Medecina de quadrupedibus" and "Herbarium"
    750

    "Medecina de quadrupedibus" and "Herbarium"

  • Period: 800 to 900

    9th Century

  • Period: 900 to 1000

    10th Century

  • Benedictine Reform
    950

    Benedictine Reform

    Monastic Reform in the English Church: monks can't get married anymore.
  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    11th Century

  • Period: 1006 to 1350

    Norman period (Language: French)

    Normans invaded England and started a brutal colonial regime. English was the language of poor people:noble spoke French.
  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    12th Century

  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    13th Century

  • Period: 1300 to 1400

    14th Century

  • Period: 1350 to 1450

    Middle English

  • Ice Age (25,000 BC – 12,000 BC)

    British Land are inhabited