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A SHORT HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN

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Page 1: A short history of Great Britain

A SHORT HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN

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Celtic people settled in Britain around 700 B.C.

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The Celts are ancestors to many people in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland today.

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The Celts often had women as their leaders. One of them is very famous. Here name was Boadicea. She fought the Romans.

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The Romans occupied most of England and Wales in AD 43. The Romans were afraid of the Scots. That is why they built Hadrians Wall along the Scottish border.

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Hadrians Wall

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The Romans stayed in Britain for a long time. When they left , new people attacked Britain.

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The Angels and the Saxons attacked Britain. The Celts could not fight them, so they fled to Wales, Scotland and Cornwall.

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In 793 the Vikings attacked a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne.They killed the monks and stole the gold and silver.

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The Vikings stayed in Britain for almost three hundred years.

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The Vikings were people who lived in Denmark, Sweden and Norway over a thousand years ago.

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In those days it was hard to find good farmland.

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Many men sailed to find new land.

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They often stole valuable things from other people.

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The Vikings were great sailors.

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The longest ships were called longship or dragonship.

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The viking ships were decorated with dragon’s heads to scare the enemy.