Migration & Empire : Early Britain

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Britain in the 700s to 1300s
Marcelo Arenas
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Marcelo Arenas
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Migration & Empire : Early Britain
  1. Angles & Saxons
    1. In the 5th century, people from northern Europe, Anglia, Jutland, Saxony and Frisii, migrated to England
      1. They left because their homes were susceptible to floods easily (lowlands)
        1. Crops were hard to grow in their conditions
          1. They settled quickly in England and made use of it's fertile land
          2. Norsemen
            1. Around the 700s, Vikings began raiding and pillaging monasteries, villages and towns on the English Coast
              1. Danegeld: gold given to the Vikings from the Anglo-Saxons to pay them off from attacking
                1. Danelaw: lands of England occupied by the Vikings
                2. Normans
                  1. Invaded England in 1066 led by Duke William of Normandy
                    1. Originally from Scandinavia (Normans -> Norse Men)
                      1. Descendants of Rollo (viking)
                      2. Alfred the Great
                        1. Fought off the Vikings and saved England
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