1. Early History of England
English 12

2. The original inhabitants of England?
The Celts
preliterates

3. 55 BC-43 AD The Romans

4. Hadrian’s Wall
Picts

5. Romans left

6. 3 Germanic Tribes
The Angles
The Saxons
The Jutes

7. ANGLELAND

8. Three Things that United the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
A common language

9. Three Things that United the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
A common language
Old
English

10. Three Things that United the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
A common language
A common religion

11. Three Things that United the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
A common language
A common religion
Old English
Christianity

12. The Danes!!

13. Three Things that United the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
A common language
A common religion
A common enemy
Old English
Christianity

14. King Alfred the Great

17. DANELAW

18. Stressed learning and literature
King Alfred the Great
Defeated the Danes
Stressed learning and literature

19. ~ 1000
Ethelred the Unready

20. Dear King
of the Danes,
……………….
………………
Respectfully,
Ethelred
Dear Ethelred,
……………….
………………
Your friend,
King of the Danes

21. DANEGELD

22. 1015
NORWAY

23. London Bridge

24. 1016
Canute

25. “Merry sang the Monks of Ely
As Canute the King came rowing by…”