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The Story of the Times (800 BC-1485 AD)
Conquest of the English Islands
Pre-800 BC
Islands inhabited by a group known as the Picts
800-600 BC
Celts (Kelts) from Europe began invading English Islands
2 groups
Brythons (Britons) settle the Big Island (England, Wales,
Scotland)
Gaels settle the Small Island (Ireland)
Hunter-Gatherers who are loyal to local chieftains
Priests known as Druids settle disputes
FYI – Merlin was probably a Druid and King Arthur was
Probably a Celtic chieftain
55 BC
Roman armies invade led by Julius Caesar
Roman rule last over 300 years off and on
Build forts and road all across England
Emperor Hadrian builds a wall across the middle of England for
protection
Romans bring Christianity to England in the 200-300s
Romans leave in 407 AD, go back to Rome, but leave Christianity
in place with the Celtic Church
400sNext came the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes
Fisherman and farmers from Belgium and northern
Germany
They speak Germanic languages
In 597, Saint Augustine, a Roman missionary converts the Anglo-Saxon
King Ethelbert of Kent to Christianity. King Ethelbert is the first true
King of England (Angelond, “land of the Anglos”) and he’s a Christian.
St. Augustine sets up a monastery at Canterbury.
Major Groups to Invade and Call England home:
Picts
Celts
Romans
Anglo-Saxons and Jutes (1st to think of themselves as “English”
Vikings (Danes)
Normans (French Viking descendents)
Anglo-Saxon terms:
Scop
Mead
Mead-hall
Thane
Bretwalda