History of British Islands
History of the British Islands
The study of the British Islands helps us to understand the foundations on which our society is built on. The present life of the British Islands is the result of the accumulated past; and if we understand the past, we can understand ourselves and also determinate our future.
The History and Culture of England helps us to answer questions that ask for the remains of the past, such us: Who built a dolmen? Who built a hill-fort? What was a castle? Etc.
Therefore, we mean to explain the daily life of the islands. There are conditions of work and attitude of environment. It’s impossible to cover the whole subject, so we will explain the mean features of the earlier times.
The first historian, Bede, born in the 1st century, wrote in the 8th century the Ecclesiastical history of the English people, and he said that Bretons came from Brittany, that the Picts, in the North, came from Scandinavia. He goes on to describe the movements of people since the departure of the Romans from the coast of Brittany. Scots had colonized western Scotland, from Northern Ireland; and the Angle-Saxons and Jutes had crossed into southern and eastern England from the continent with all these new comers.
There were in the islands 5 languages: British, Pictish, Scottish, Anglican and Latin, which was the lingua franca.
Nowadays, there is an ongoing heated debate: are the Bretons more closely related to the Palaeolithic hunters or to the later migrants, the first farmers who came from the near east and south western Europe with the Neolithic culture?
To understand early humans in Brittany we need to understand climate changes and its impact. The British Islands and Ireland were the extreme west of European territory and subjected to climatic fluctuations. As a result, people repeatedly inhabited and abandoned Britain alone with animals like mammoths, bears and hyenas.
Now, we are living in the longest interglacial period, which started 15000
The study of the British Islands helps us to understand the foundations on which our society is built on. The present life of the British Islands is the result of the accumulated past; and if we understand the past, we can understand ourselves and also determinate our future.
The History and Culture of England helps us to answer questions that ask for the remains of the past, such us: Who built a dolmen? Who built a hill-fort? What was a castle? Etc.
Therefore, we mean to explain the daily life of the islands. There are conditions of work and attitude of environment. It’s impossible to cover the whole subject, so we will explain the mean features of the earlier times.
The first historian, Bede, born in the 1st century, wrote in the 8th century the Ecclesiastical history of the English people, and he said that Bretons came from Brittany, that the Picts, in the North, came from Scandinavia. He goes on to describe the movements of people since the departure of the Romans from the coast of Brittany. Scots had colonized western Scotland, from Northern Ireland; and the Angle-Saxons and Jutes had crossed into southern and eastern England from the continent with all these new comers.
There were in the islands 5 languages: British, Pictish, Scottish, Anglican and Latin, which was the lingua franca.
Nowadays, there is an ongoing heated debate: are the Bretons more closely related to the Palaeolithic hunters or to the later migrants, the first farmers who came from the near east and south western Europe with the Neolithic culture?
To understand early humans in Brittany we need to understand climate changes and its impact. The British Islands and Ireland were the extreme west of European territory and subjected to climatic fluctuations. As a result, people repeatedly inhabited and abandoned Britain alone with animals like mammoths, bears and hyenas.
Now, we are living in the longest interglacial period, which started 15000