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1. By Adriana Uslenghi Amoroso Ana Laura Marin Alfonso
2. 500.000 BC - People migrated from Europe. 250.000-300.000
BC-The Early Britons Human and Prehuman remains have been found in
Britain, but these earliest inhabitants seem to have left during
the last Ice Age, which ended about 50.000 years ago. 6500 BC - The
land bridge connecting Britain to Europe was swamped as the sea
level rises. As a result of that, the British peninsula became an
Island. . -
3. 3100 BC Stonehenge started to build in what is now known as
Wiltshire, dragging each stone into place 3000 BC New Stone Age
begins: agriculture people arrived from Europe
4. THE BEAKER FOLK In 2000 BC people from Northern Europe came
to Britain. They were known as Beaker Folk. Not much is known about
these early inhabitants. They were organized in small communities,
and as the population increased they moved from hunting-gathering
to agriculture in a way alike to that of many other people across
the world. The most important physical remnants of the early
Britons are the great stone or megalithic circles. Bronze ornaments
were their important achievement. They had religion already.
Stonehenge was the evidence.
5. 2000 BC Stonehenge was completed. Use to be a burial
ground.
6. 2150 BC People learned to make bronze weapons and tools 2100
BC Bronze Age begin
7. Bronze Age Britain ushered in a new world of commerce and
trade ,many opportunities to gain wealth and prestige.This was a
kind of golden age in the british history.
8. 1650 BC it began to form the trade routes 1200 BC the first
small villages were formed
9. 750 BC Iron Age started: iron replaces bronze as most useful
metal. Population about 150.000
10. The diffuse of cultural artifacts and styles we now call
Celtic, was an important aspect of the long transition from Bronze
Age to the Iron Age Britain. This was a turning point in the
history because it would change what people lived and the
settlement of Britain as a whole. Iron was the metal of the people
,working tools for working men.
11. Between 800-600 BC it was a big crisis, driving Britain
into a period of social turmoil. As a result of that, it would
utterly reshape British society. It became more locally,
focused,people began to find local solutions to problems. 500 BC
The Celtic people arrived from Central Europe.
12. Until the arrival of Celts there was not permanent homes.
With them, starts the Tribes. This is a map based on the Atlas of
Roman Britain.
13. The Celts ,also called Brythons, were farmers.Their fields
tended to be long and narrow. Celtic lands were owned communally,
and wealth has been based largely on the size of cattle herd owned.
Celtics families were much extended like clans where children were
raised by foster parents. Each clan had its own social structure
and customs. One of the interesting innovations that The Celts
brought to Britain was the method of iron ploughing. They made the
farmlands permanent. Sheep and cattle were given shelter within the
outer introduced iron wrought.
14. Another area where oral traditions were important was in
the training of Druids. They were a curious lot; a sort of super-
class of priests, political advisors, teachers, healers, and
arbitrators.
15. They were tall, strong and muscular man with fair
complexions; were high spirited, temperamental, and when they were
not fighting, they were enjoying feasting. Spoke Celt language. The
trace of it can still be found in Cornwall, Ireland and Wales and
in the north-west of Scotland.
16. Their language as a written Celtic language, but it
developed well into Christian times, so for much of Celtic history
they relied on oral transmission of culture, primarily through the
efforts of bards and poets. Druids could not read or write, but
they memorized all the religious teachings, the tribal laws,
history, medicine and other knowledge necessary in Celtic
society.
17. Celtic warriors would cut off the heads of their enemies in
battle and display them as trophies, by taking the head of a
vanquished foe they were appropriating that power for themselves.
It was a kind of bloody religious observance.
18. They were also warlike people, they fought against the
people of Britain and other Celtic tribes. The Celts loved war. The
main problem with the Celts was that they couldn't stop fighting
among themselves long enough to put up a unified front. Each tribe
was out for itself, and in the long run this cost them control of
Britain. They were experienced fighters, armed with iron swords and
daggers. A Celtic chief had a chariot. It was buried with him when
he died. Wherever they went they conquered.
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY Burns, William E. A Brief History of Great
Britain. Published 2010 McDowall, David. An Illustrated History of
Britain. Published by Longman, 2006 Lang, Sean. British History For
Dummies, 2nd Edition. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2006
Rolleston, Thomas William. Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race.
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