British history Chapter I,II.ppt

III Anglo –Saxon Times(410—871) * Part Two British History By Zhang yonglan Chapter I Pre-feudal Society Main and difficult points: Teaching aims: Students shall master the main events in the period of British pre-feudal society . *The time of the major events in each period. 2000 BC Stonehenge巨石阵 a religious center astronomical observatory About 6,000----5000 B.C. severing of landbridge about 3,000 B.C Iberians Ice Age ended 7,000 years ago I.Early Settlement(…-55B.C.) 2.About 2000 BC,the Beaker Folk(青铜器时代的宽口陶器人)from Holland and the Rhineland 3. Celtic tribes from Europe: (1)Gaels(Scotland) , about 750B.C. (2.)Britons (Welsh ) , about 400-500B.C. (3)Belgae. around 150B.C. from Gaul. (4) Druids:Celtic priests . practised farmers,ironworkers. Druidism[督伊德教(古代高卢人与不列颠人的一种宗教)]. The Druids(the wise men, astrologers and soothsayers) rites in woods by the light of the moon. human sacrifices to their gods, sometimes single victims, groups of men in immense wickerwork cages. (5)Primitive communism. II.The Roman Occupation(55B.C. --410) The Middle Ages destruction of the Roman Empire in the West in 375, the last of the Roman Emperors of the West, in 476. The close of the Middle Ages :rise of Humanism and the Renaissance ,the fourteenth century; with the Fall of Constantinople, in 1453; with the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492 recorded history :beginning in 55BC. 55BC. 55—54B.C.Julius Caesar ---hostages, small tribute real conquest 43A.D.—Claudius 122A.D. Hadrian’s Wall ---- Picts and Scots against the Romans. They built baths, temples , amphitheatres and beautiful villas. the new religion, Christianity consequences (pp38-39)?: romanized, slave society  Middle of 5th century, Germanic (Teutonic) tribes: the Angles, Saxons, Jutes. Old English Archbishop of Canterbury, 597 Christianity By the end of the 7th century, heptarchy: The Map of Heptarchy  manorial system,taxes , the local army. Witan (cou