British Culture Week 1.2

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British Culture Lesson 1.2

History up to 1066

Today's lesson:

• History up to 1066

England

Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

Name a famous HENGE

Stonehenge 3000-2000 BC

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/stonehenge-facts/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08zqq6y

How were the stones brought to the site?

1. Dragged on sledges
2. Lorry
3. Giants placed the monument on a mountain in Ireland, before a wizard named Merlin magically moved the stone circle to England.
4. Aliens

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales

Theories suggest that Stonehenge could have been a ...

1. clock
2. calendar
3. burial ground
4. healing centre

• Ancient Britons lived in  tribes
• Spoke Common Brittonic (Celtic language)
• Julius Caesar first lands in Britain 55 BC

ROMAN PERIOD AD 43 – 410

• Occupation of present-day England and Wales (province of Britannia)
• Control not settlement
• Place names: Chester, Lancaster (castra = camp)
• Fusion of Romano-British culture 

Hadrian's Wall begun AD 122

GERMANIC INVASIONS 410-1066

Anglo-Saxons

Ango-Saxons

• Christianity introduced by St Augustine 597
• Flourishing of language and literature
• Anglo-Saxon=Old English
• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-43045874

VIKING INVASIONS 700-1100

• Viking (Old Norse) words: anger, bag, leg, sky, window, they.
• Place names ending in -thorpe, -by, kirk'
• https://www.jorvikvikingcentre.co.uk/the-vikings
  
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztyr9j6/articles/zjcxwty

Vikings

• Seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
• Wales: 'foreigners'

Battle of Hastings 1066

How did King Harold die?

1. Axe through the head
2. Sword through the chest
3. Arrow through the eye

The Norman Conquest 

• William the Conqueror
  
• No large-scale settlement 
  
• 1086 Domesday Book
• Feudal system
• Class system  

Put these groups in the correct historical order:

Iron Age 

AD 43 

410 - 1066

700-1100

1066

Normans

Vikings

Anglo-Saxons

Romans

AncientBritons

What did you learn in this lesson?

Tips for further study:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08zqq6y

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/history-of-english

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09hhqvz