1. Revision: pre-history
Helen Kurvits

2. Prehistoric britain 6000 BC – the end of the Ice Age
3000 BC – the Iberians
Lived long before anything about them was written
Stonehenge – 3000 BC
Prehistoric megalithic monument
Connected with the sun and the passing of the seasons
Two stone circles
In the centre – the Altar Stone
UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites

3. PREhistoric britain Bronze Age – 2100-1650 BC Gold – Wales
The Celts – the technique of
smelting iron
600 BC – the Gaels
300 BC – the Cymri or Britons
Villages on hilltops
Metal tools and weapons
Ruled by Druids
Women had a lot of power

4. Prehistoric britain Clans and tribes Great warriors, but could not
put up a unified front
History relied on oral transmission
Biased reports
Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Manx,
Breton and Gaelic
avon-river

5. Roman britain Roman society – slave society Powerful people
Two raids across the Cannel – 55 and
54 BC
Roman invasion – 43 AD
AD 61 – revolt
Network of towns, paved roads
Hadrian’s Wall – 122
-caster, -chester
Christianity

6. Anglo-saxon kingdoms 410 – The Roman legions left Britain
Angles, Saxons and Jutes
Saxon kingdoms
Disliked towns
-ham-home
The Celts were driven away
The Angles – the name
The Saxons – the language with
its mythology
Self-sufficient villages
579 – the conversion of the
Anglo-Saxons to Christianity
The Venerable Bede

7. The vikings AD 700-1100 Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Raids started at the end of the 8th century
-by – town (in Danish)
Bold and skilful seamen
871 – Wessex
King Alfred
Danelaw
The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle

8. Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
British History