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THE GREAT INVASIONS

Sabrina Meligrana

Created on October 2, 2023

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The great invasions

Over the centuries Britain was invaded by several invaders

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The invaders

The Anglo-Saxons

The Normans

The Celts

700 B. C.

793

1066

5-6th centuries

43-47 A. D.

The Vikings.

The Romans

Invaders

The Celts

  • Arrived in Britain around 700 BC
  • were tribes of warriors
  • practised agricolture,fishing and metal working
  • lived in small villages built on top of hills
  • the women may have had more rights and more equal status to man

Invaders

The Romans

  • Invaded the Britain between 42-47 AD
  • Built over 9,600 km of paved roads
  • Built the first London bridge near which the founded the settlement of 'Londinium'
  • The most important monument was Adrian's wall

Invaders

The Vikings

  • Invaded the Britain between the 8 and 9 centuries
  • Were defeated by Anglo-Saxons and they left the country
  • Returned in England in the 990s with Forkbeard, who brought an end of the Vikings attacks
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Invaders

The Anglo-Saxons

  • were tribes of Anglos, Saxons and Jutes
  • arrived in Britain over the course of the 5 and 6 centuries
  • used the runic alphabet for practical use
  • They spoke the old English
  • At first they worshipped several gods and after they became Christians

Heptarchy

The Heptarchy

The Heptarchy is a corporation of seven states: -Wessex -Essex -Sussex -Northumbria -East Anglia -Kent -Mercia

Old English

OLD ENGLISH

MODERN ENGLISH

The language of Ango-Saxons was the Old English, it is so different form Modern English that is very difficoult to understand it without studying it.

Anglo-Saxons literature

Stories about lives of Saints and Sermons

Epic poetry

Chronicle

Riddles

Epic poem

Epic poems' common features

Most important epic poem

The narrative consists of vivid, pictorial flashes, called type-scenes, also, the narrative is objective.

The most important epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey, written by Homer, the Virgil's Aeneid and the Anglo-Saxons Beowulf

The style

The theme

The main theme is the nature of heroic life and the search for glory

The style was very elevated and the vocabulary was extremely rich