The Origin of the English Nation

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The Origin of the English Nation

• Early Settlement
  • Iberians
    • stonehenge 巨石阵
      • big ＆ circle
      • on Salisbury
      • to have religious or astronomical purpose
    • unwarlike: few finds unearthed can be classed as weapons
  • Celts
    • warriors fighting spirit
    • tradition/house/cross 十字架
    • red hair tall blue eyes
    • 3 waves
      • gaels—700BC
      • brythons— 500BC
      • belgae—100BC
• Roman Britain
  • Roman empire
  • birth of Rome
    • capital city of Italy
    • legend: wolf
  • Handrian's wall
    • border in the north
    • past glories
  • civilization
    • cities' names
      • road towns villas
      • life style
    • sayings
  • bath
• Anglo-Saxon Time
  • why invade britain
    • were invited to come
    • their land often flooded
  • how long stay
    • about 500 years
    • never went home
  • 3 teuton tribes
    • jutes / angles /saxons （gloomy）
  • heptarchy
    • 7 kingdom
  • egbert
    • king of wessex
  • old-English
  • religion
    • no hope for an afterlife
    • bravery loyalty generosity friendship
    • similar to Norse mythology
  • Canterbury church
• The Norman Conquest
  • battle of Hasting in 1066
  • William the conqueror
    • feudal system
    • Domesday book 末日审判书
  • influences
    • development of feudal aristocracy appearance of noble titles
    • beginning of Middle English
    • French civilization
• The Danish Invasion
  • social change
    • Alfred the Great
      • from wessex
      • the farther of british navy
      • translate latin works in anglo-saxon language
      • chronicle 编年史
    • Edward the Elder
      • Edward the confessor
  • Danelaw 丹麦法
    • area of northern England
    • controlled by Danish adventure and settlers
    • in the late 9th century
    • pay for peace
  • slavery
  • danegeld
  • westminster abbey
    • most famous church in great britain
    • in London
    • begun by Edward the confessor in 1050
    • rebuilt in gothic style in 1245
  • survey of the UK
    • 1066 EtC dies no child
    • Harold Godwinson chosen to be king
      • he was english
      • experienced soldier
      • Edward gave him the crown
    • william of Normandy
      • born 1028
      • gained control of nomandy in 1047
  • the Feudal System
    • anglo-normans brought french and feudalism
    • a social/caste/property /military system