The history of English

The history of English:Before English(1-6)、Old English(7-12)、Middle English(13-19)、Modern English(20-23).

The history of English

• Before English(1-6)
  • Britons
    • Scots
    • Celts
    • Picts
  • Creek
    • Brought art,literature,science,philosophy and goverment
  • Roman
    • Conquered Greece but then getting weaker and ceased to exist finnally
  • Germanic
    • Angles
    • Saxons
    • Jutes
    • Goths
• Old English(7-12)
  • Anglo-Saxon
    • It became the power in England and became the very early beginning of Engish
  • Danes
    • Invaded England
  • The Danish language mixed with Anglo-Saxon became the Old English
• Middle English(13-19)
  • The Norman Conquest
    • the Norman French people invaded England
    • England combine the English with French:the French of the ruling class,the Anglo-Saxon of the servant class,the English
    • Middle English became a very disorganized language
  • The Crusades
    • The Europeans back into contact with the superior ancient Greek and Roman culture
  • The Renaissance
    • The English language was sorting itself out from the chaos of Middle English
• Modern English(20-23)
  • Before Shakespeare died
    • England established her first American colony-Virginia
  • When Shakespeare died
    • Our history and our language entered the modern period
  • After Shakespeare died
    • England built an empire
      • North America
      • Some Caribbean islands
      • Australia
      • New Zealand
      • Parts of Asia and Africa