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�����The Anglo-Saxon Era��Peoples of Ancient Britain��Tuatha de Danann�Celts (Kelts) (800 BC)�Romans (55 BC-407 AD)�Anglo-Saxons (400)�Danes (800)�Normans (1066)

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Tuatha de Danann

  • “Children of the Earth”
  • Small stature
  • Magical powers?
  • Exterminated by the Kelts

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Celts (Kelts)

  • Successful European ethnic group
  • Baltic origins
  • Love of beauty
  • Druids
  • Celtic warfare

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Romans

  • Conquest of Picts by Julius Caesar
  • Technology
  • Tactics
  • “Chemical warfare”
  • Roman camps (castra)
  • Retirement plan

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Anglo-Saxons

  • Population explosion
  • Primogeniture
  • Belief in Fate (“Wyrd”)
  • Conversion to Christianity
  • Language - Old English
  • Poetry

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Danes (Norsemen)

  • Raiders
  • Settlers
  • “Danelaw”
  • Treaty with Alfred the Great