Презентация, доклад по английскому языку История Великобритании ч1

Brythonic areas
Mainly Gaelic areas
Mainly Pictish areas

Many centuries ago (about the 4th century B.C.) the country we now call England was known as Britain, and the people who lived there were called Britons (sometimes Brythons).

Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. They spoke the Celtic language known as British or Brythonic.

fighting, the free poor served as chariot drivers. Part of a warrior’s ritual was to boast of his victories, and fighting between warriors was an important part of life.

time as the Egyptians. Archaeologists unearthed the skeletons of a man, a woman, and a 3-year-old girl under the floor of a prehistoric house at Cladh Hallan on the Scottish island of South Uist.

with people today but belonged to another human species lived in Norfolk almost a million years ago, scientists believe them to be the oldest known human settlers in northern Europe.

These were members of the ancient Celtic priesthood before the Christian religion.

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They were keepers of all the religious teachings, the tribal history and other knowledge important in Celtic society

4th century AD.
This type of necklace was a device that had been used to alter a Druid's voice

They worshipped Gods & Goddesses living in water, stones, trees etc.

of the Island of GB, in particular.

southern England, is probably, one of the most famous sites in the world. Stonehenge “supported stones” is located in the English county of Wiltshire. It was generally concluded that Stonehenge was constructed as a temple to the sun.

stones that still stand today were put in place about 4,000 years ago.

Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.

that the native British developed.

knowledge of the path of the sun risings at dawn on midsummer's morning.

rings as astronomical observatories. The monument must have been deliberately oriented and planned so that on midsummer's morning the sun rose directly over the Heel Stone and the first rays shone into the centre of the monument.

agree on their possible “magico-religious” uses.

still surrounds its original purpose. In the 12th century Geoffrey of Monmouth included a fanciful story in his work Historia Regum Britanniae that attributed the monument's construction to Merlin, the magician of the times of King Arthur.

Wales, and found them all to be on a grid of isosceles triangles – those with two sides of equal length – each pointing to the next site.

of miles with remarkable accuracy using landmarks such as Stonehenge.

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Stone markers on hilltops and natural waypoints let them orient, as if they had satellite navigation maps.

villages of round houses from wood and mud with thatched roofs. There was a strict differentiation between peasants and warriors in their occupations and social position. There were lots of different tribes ruled by kings or chiefs. Chiefs often fought one another.

a genuine Celtic warrior shield, found in the River Thames (London). It's too fine for use in battle. Perhaps it was thrown in the river as a gift to the gods.