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5
ANCIENT BRITAIN
INVASION, RESISTANCE, SETTLEMENT and CONQUEST
PRE CELTIC AND CELTIC PEOPLE. ANGLO-SAXON BRITAIN. INVASIONS OF THE VIKINGS.
THE ENGLAND OF ALFRED THE GREAT. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. THE BATTLE OF
HASTINGS.
Key words, terms and concepts:
1. Stonehenge
2. "Beaker" people
3. Celts, Druids, Celtic curves
4. Celtic languages – Gaelic and Brythonic
5. Roman Britain
6. Hadrian's Wall
7. Scots and Picts
8. Queen Boadicea– (Boudicca)
9. Villas
10. Roman roads – straight as a die
11. Pax Romana, Roman Peace
12. Saxons: Saxon kings and Saxon kingdoms:
Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Sussex, Wessex, Essex, Kent
13. Vikings
14. Venerable Bede (731)
15. Alfred the Great (849-899)
16. The Danelaw
17. Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)