Britain: A Timeline- CRASNE Celts 1000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- to English 1066 AD - ????

You have been issued a guided note sheet. However, do not look at it immediately, keep doodle notes. Then at the stop sign, we’ll all stop & fill in our notes. Let’s P R A C T I E

The British Isles Today

Pre-Celts: Man in Britain since 200,000 BC Stonehenge - Built by a Pre-Celtic Culture

CELTS

C R AS N E Celts 1000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- 1066 AD - ???? to English Language c. 1300 AD

The Celts: from about 1000 BC The Celts: from about 1000 BC Britons in England; Gaels of Ireland; Scots & Picts of Scotland

Celtic Tribes of Ancient Britain: around 500 BC Scots & Picts Gaels Bretons

ROMANS

C R AS N E Celts 1000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- 1066 AD - ???? to English Language - 1300 AD

The Romans Caesar Explores - 55 BC

Roman Occupation 44 AD – 440 AD

Roman Occupation 44 AD – 440 AD Lots of positives to being part of the Roman Empire. An Advanced Civilization! Architecture/ Engineering Aqueducts, Baths, Games Temples, Christianity Efficient Government Roads, Transportation Protection Trade. Money System

Roman Empire about 117 AD Note Empower Hadrian’s Wall

Fall of Rome as we approach 500 AD. Rome will pull out troops from its frontier to protect Rome itself. Roman Occupation of England ends by 440 AD.

Barbarians

ANGLO- SAXONS 449 AD

C R AS N E Celts 2000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- 1066 AD - ???? to English Language - 1300 AD

Anglo-Saxons 449 - 1066 Actually it’s Germanic Tribes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes

Name this famous Celt who attempted to fend off Anglo-Saxons Invaders.

Germanic Tribes to England. Celts either assimilate or move West Germanic Tribes to England. Celts either assimilate or move West. Most move to Wales, Cornwall, or off to Brittany.

Germanic Tribes Bring their German tongue. Now call it . . . Old English

Christian Missionaries to the Island Augustine and Conversions - 597 AD

Bede – Ecclesiastical History Anglo-Saxon Monk - Historian Bede: Father of History. As a Monk he will compose in Latin.

Alliterative Poetry. Scops in the Mead Halls: Beowulf

Mead: Honey Beer of the Dark Ages. Quaff a cold, flat, sweet beer

VIKING INVADERS 787-878

C R AS (Vikings) AS N E Celts. 1000 BC -. Romans C R AS (Vikings) AS N E Celts 1000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Viking Interruption -- The Danelaw Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- 1066 AD - to English Language 1300 AD

Viking Invasions – Terrors to all of Europe A Century of sacking, looting and pillaging. 787-878 AD

The Danelaw

V I K I N G S

Alfred the Great – Reign 871- 899 AD

Regains Saxon control – Patron of the Arts Secular History The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

The Danelaw

Time moves on…. Anglo-Saxons and the Viking Settlers live in Harmony for the next few centuries. They will intermarry, become one culture. Some Viking Kings, like Canute, will even Rule.

End of the Line. Edward the Confessor Chaste Life - Death in 1065 End of the Line. Edward the Confessor Chaste Life - Death in 1065. No heir named to succeed.

Claimants to Throne: Harold and William Battle of Hastings - 1066

1066 AD

NORMAN FRENCH

C R AS N E Celts 1000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- 1066 AD - ???? to English Language - 1300 AD

William the Conqueror & his Norman French French Speaking Upper Class--Old English speaking Lower Class.

C R AS N E Celts 1000 BC - ???? Romans 44 AD - 440 AD Anglo Saxons 449 AD - 1066 AD Normans --- 1066 AD - ???? to English Language - 1300 AD

Middle English… By Chaucer and 1300

His time is coming… Just a few centuries away His time is coming… Just a few centuries away. 1600 AD The Language will soon belong to the Master