Britains Earliest Immigrants Flashcards
(32 cards)
When did the celts settle in britain?
Around 500bc
What were the celts tribes like?
Tribes often fought brutally with each other
What were the celts main job
Farmers
What kind of musical instrument sis the celts introduce to britain?
Introduced bagpipes
What kind of defense did the celts use?
Forts
How was tribal business done?
Yearly, things like accused criminals and appointing people
What were celt priests(druids) in charge of?
In charge of religious rituals
When did the romans arrive in Britain?
43 ad from Rome and stay for 400 years
When the roman army left Britain many stayed….
Behind with there local wives
What was the roman army made out of?
Gauls(France), Germans, hungarians and africans
Important roman towns today?
Chester, york, St albans, bath, gloucester, lincoln, colchester
What THINGS did the romans introduce to Britain?
Calendars, coins, glass and bricks
What FOOD did the romans introduce
Cabbages,peas,wine,apples,grapes,turmips,carrots and cats
When did the Angles and Saxons begin arriving
In 450ad
How did the Anglo Saxons invade?
In small groups from Denmark and northern Germany and the jutes from northern Germany
What did the Anglo-Saxons change the Celtic tribes into?
Wales, Cornwall, Cumbria and Scotland
What was Englands name for the saxons?
Angle-land later england
What towns come from the anglo-saxons?
Towns ending in ton,wich,worth,burn,worth,hurst,ham
When did the vikings arrive?
After 800ad from denmark,norway and sweden.
Ehat were the vikings looking for when they got to britain?
For land to settle on but also for loot like the anglomsaxons
Where did the Vikings take over?
Took over much of north and east of britain, places eneding in ‘by’ and ‘thorpe’ were named by vikings
What year and what king was a viking in?
King Cnut in 1016
When did the normans arrive?
From normandy (france) after 1066
What did the normans control ?
England and whales
