1. Their priests were called druids. Druids were also judges and doctors. People of their clans believed they could predict future and heal the sufferings.
2. The Celts were pagans and believed in different deities living in nature.
3. They built Stonehenge, in the south of England, a group of stomes whose function is still a mistery. Maybe it was an astronomic clock
4. they were farmers and lived in tribes
5. they probably came from Spain about 2000 years before Christ. ; they were dark-haired.
6. Pre-historic hiberians
7. The Celts (700 B.C. -43 A.D)
8. They arrived from Northern Europe (Germany) around 700 B.C. They were blond-haired and imposed themselves on the Iberians
9. They were farmers, artisans, traders. They were organized into clans with a leader
10. They spoke Old English
11. They were warrios, loyal to their king and it was considered an honour to give their lives for him. The king had to be bravet than anyone else, always ready to lead his fellows to the battle.
12. The poem recors the values of Anglo-Saxon culture, that is strenght, courage and loyalty
13. BEWOLF : It is an epic poem set in Scandinavia. It is considered the first great example of English literature. It developed out of the German oral tradition and the written Christian tradition. It tells the story of prince Bewolf, a strong and brave warrior who fights aganst a monster to defend the king of Denmark
14. Christianity had disappeared during the Anglo-Saxon conquest, but at the end of the VI century Pope Gregory the Great sent a monk named Augustine, who converted the Anglo-Saxons, built churches and monasteries and became the first archbishop, while in Ireland Christianity spread thanks to St. Patrick, who converted the Celts.
15. They founded the 7 kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, Kent, Wessex, often in war one with one other
16. In 445 AD Germaic tribes came to England in great numbers. They were the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes.
17. To defend Rome, the Romans left Britain in 410, so new tribes started invading Britain .
18. The Romans brought their civilization to Britain: they built towns, roads, villas and aqueducts
18.1. They also brought their language and Christianity
19. They built a long wall to defend "Britannia" against the attaks of the Celts from Scotland
20. Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 B.C.
21. However the Roman conquest only began in 43 A.D. under the Emperor Claudius
