ByAdriana Uslenghi Amoroso Ana Laura Marin Alfonso

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.

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3100 BC Stonehenge started to build in what is now known as Wiltshire, dragging each stone into place3000 BC New Stone Age begins: agriculture people arrived from Europe

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.

2000 BC Stonehenge was completed. Use to be a burial

ground.

2150 BC People learned to make bronze weapons and tools

2100 BC Bronze Age begin

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.

1650 BC it began to form the trade routes

1200 BC the first small villages were formed

750 BC Iron Age started: iron replaces bronze as most

useful metal. Population about 150.000

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.

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 peoplearrived from Central Europe.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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