1. EARLY BRITAIN A HISTORY OF INVASIONS

2. Summary
The Celts
The Romans
The Anglo-Saxons
The Normans

3. 700/600 B.C. Celts appear in Britain

4. Druids worshipped the Sun and Moon at Stonehenge

5. Celtic tradition

6. Celtic House

7. Celtic cross

9. The Romans In 55-54 Julius Caesar reaches Britain
In 43 Emperor Claudius invades Britain and accomplishes the conquest

10. Hadrian’s Wall
The Roman advance was halted south of what is now the border between England and Scotland. The Scottish refused to be colonized and Emperor Hadrian built a wall to keep raiders out of Roman Britain

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12. "It is the land of far horizons, where the piled or drifted shapes of gathered vapour are for ever moving along the farthest ridge of hills, like the procession of long primeval ages that is written in tribal mounds and Roman camps and Border towers on the breast of Northumberland."
GM Trevelyan

13. 410 the Romans leave Britain
Jutes, Angles
and Saxons
invade Britain

14. The anglo-Saxon kingdoms
The Anglo-Saxons established
7 Kingdoms in Britain:
Northumbria
Mercia
East Anglia
Essex
Kent
Sussex
Wessex

15. King Arthur
He leds the Celtic Britons in their resistance against the Saxon invaders

16. Alfred the Great
He was the greatest Anglo-Saxon king and came from Wessex.
He translated latin works in Anglo-Saxon language.

17. 1066 The Normans invade Britain