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British History ( origins – 1066 CE)

British History ( origins – 1066 CE). Fabio Pesaresi. Beaker culture. Arrived 2500 BCE introduced food and drinks vessels of clay built megalithic monuments (Stonehenge, Avebury ). Stonehenge. Celts ( around 700 BCE). Iron instead of Bronze Skilled craftsmen Druids.

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British History ( origins – 1066 CE)

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  1. BritishHistory( origins – 1066 CE) Fabio Pesaresi

  2. Beaker culture • Arrived 2500 BCE • introducedfood and drinksvesselsofclay • builtmegalithicmonuments (Stonehenge, Avebury)

  3. Stonehenge

  4. Celts(around 700 BCE)

  5. Ironinsteadof Bronze • Skilledcraftsmen • Druids

  6. Julius Caesar(55 BCE)

  7. Roman occupation • Claudius (41-54 CE) • Hadrian (76-138 CE) builds the wallagainstraidersfrom the north

  8. Hadrian’s Wall

  9. Roman Britain

  10. Roads & baths • Cities (London, Manchester, York, Bath) • Mining (silver) • Urban Culture

  11. NO language NO Christianity

  12. Toponyms CASTRA -chester, -caster Manchester , Doncaster, Chester

  13. Bath(AquaeSulis)

  14. 409 The Romans leave Britain no more military defense no more stable economy no more administration

  15. King Arthur • Fictional • Represents the end of the Celtic world

  16. Germanic Tribes • Angles • Saxons • Jutes

  17. The Heptarchy

  18. SuttonHoo(discovered 1939

  19. Toponyms • - ing (= folk)  Reading • - ham (= farm)  Birmingham • - ton (= settlement)  Southampton

  20. Christianization St. Augustine (597) first Primate of Canterbury & Irish monks

  21. CelticChristianity • based in monasteries • AbbotsinsteadofBishops • more independentfrom Rome

  22. Book ofKells(800 ca.)

  23. Roman Church • establishedparishes • builtchurchesallover England

  24. Viking raids • 865 - “Great Army” • by 875 only Wessex is Anglo-Saxon. • 878 - the Vikings attack Wessex and king Alfred flees to the Somerset marshes.

  25. King Alfred the Great(871-899) • fought the Vikings • built a fleet • assembled Anglo-Saxon laws • promoted education and scholarship • translated Latin works into Anglo-Saxon • encouraged the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (till 1154)

  26. Ethelred (d. 1016) pays the Danish Money(Danegeld) • Canute (1016-1035)electedkingby the ‘witan’ (royalcouncil)

  27. Edward the Confessor(1042-1066) • saintly life • Built Westminster Abbey

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