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British legendary life(英国----一个曾被侵略的国家)
(英语国家社会与文化入门第四周论文)
海师外国语学院
2010级英语2班
201003010217 李冬云
201003010218 李芳琦
Question:
Why is it said British history has been a history of invasion? How did each of the invasion influence English culture?(P18) (w3: essay)
British legendary life
— an invasion history
As so far, I think it has been very familiar to us that British history is an invasion history, but what is the reason that someone concluded it so? We can find the fact through its history as following:
Prehistoric times:
(Time: ---3000BC; Early settlers :Iberians)
Around 3000 BC, the Iberians came from the Mediterranean region to settle in the British Isles. Very few people knew about the earliest inhabitants of the British Isles, but these residents in the aspect of Stonehenge , which was a circular stone structure, confirmed the island residents had a commensurate level of developed civilization. In fact, those inhabitants were in the period of the Bronze Age civilization. And Megalith Culture means megalithic civilization, from North Africa, are found in the west of Spain, France and Germany, as well as British Isles. From this world heritage, we can know the civilization of primitives very well.
Influence: Megalith Culture, Neolithic culture
Celtic period:
(Time: 8th BC----1st AD; residents:Celts)
Celtic people invaded and occupied the British Isles from the continent of Europe. Also, their powerful culture originated in central Europe. In the history, Celts were made of three kinds of people: Gaels, Briton and Belgae. By the way, their religion was Druidism. The Celtics originally lived in southern Germany, they were the first nation learned in Europe to manufacture and use iron and gold ornaments; they had conquered Spain: Portugal, Italy and other regions before the conquest of Britain, France. After coming to Britain, the part of the Celtics settled down in the Contemporary Ireland and Scotland and the remaining part occupied the southern and eastern of Englan
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