Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Migration & Empire : Early Britain
- Angles & Saxons
- In the 5th century, people from
northern Europe, Anglia, Jutland,
Saxony and Frisii, migrated to England
- They left because their homes were
susceptible to floods easily (lowlands)
- Crops were hard to grow in their conditions
- They settled quickly in England and made use of it's fertile land
- Norsemen
- Around the 700s, Vikings began raiding and
pillaging monasteries, villages and towns on the
English Coast
- Danegeld: gold given to the Vikings from
the Anglo-Saxons to pay them off from
attacking
- Danelaw: lands of England occupied by the Vikings
- Normans
- Invaded England in 1066 led by Duke William of Normandy
- Originally from Scandinavia
(Normans -> Norse Men)
- Descendants of Rollo (viking)
- Alfred the Great
- Fought off the Vikings and saved England