The lands given to or taken by the Danes were known as Danelaw, just as the money spent in attempts to buy them off was known as Danegold.For the next few years, peace settled on England. The Danes tilled their new soil. Alfred went about his business, much of it concerned with precautions against another attack. He built a chain of fortified boroughs and (somehing that England had before) a fleet. Since his fellow countrymen...
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Friday, December 12, 2014
Betrayal
History of Britain, Betrayal. In Scotland, the Vikings, the Picts and the Scots were all at war with one another. At last, in the same years as Turgeis founded Dublin, there was a decisive battle. After the fighting had stopped, a Scot named kenned was...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Warriors from the North
History of Britain, Warriors of the north. They came from the cold, harsh lands of the north, like creatures of prey. Their own countries had little to offer them. To prosper, they had to travel; to be utterly ruthless, to kill and to rob without the...
Peradaban lembah sungai Kuning (Hwang-Ho)
Prasejarah. Sungai Kuning terletak di daerah pegunungan Tibet. Mengapa diberi nama sungai Kuning? Karena aliran sungai setelah melalui pegunungan Cina Utara membawa lumpur kuning yang membentuk dataran rendah Cina. Kehidupan masyarakatnya dengan bercocok...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Christianity Comes to Britain
History of Britain, History of christianity. The Romans had brought their own religious customs with them to Britain, and built temples in which to whorship their gods. Apart from their loathing of the Druids, they were tolerant of the islander's beliefs....
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
King Arthur and Seven Kingdoms
King ArthurHistory of Britain, King Arthur and Seven Kingdoms. The populer picture of King Arthur and his knights is of a band of vhivalrous gentlemen clad in shining armour. This is far from the truth. So far as we know, Arthur was a general serving...
Monday, December 8, 2014
The Anglo Saxon Invasions
History of Britain, The Anglo Saxon Invasions. The Roman Empire was in trouble. By the middle of the 4th century, Rome itself was under attack by barbarians from the north and east. The legions had to be withdrawn from Britain. With no soldiers to...
Life in Roman Britain
History of Britain, Life in Roman Britain. Rome was a city, and wherever her citizens went, they built towns. The Britons had never seen such places before, and they did not feel at home in them or take kindly to the Roman way of life.For thousands...
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Romans on the March
History of Britain, Romans on the March. Caesar's departure in 54 BC might have been the end of Roman military interest in Britain. For the next ninety-seven years, there was peaceful trading between the tribesmen and the merchants from Rome.By AD...
Saturday, December 6, 2014
The Roman Conquest
History of Britain, The Roman Conquest. By 60 BC, the Romans had conguered much of the land around the Mediterranean. One great general named Julius Caesar had overrun nearly all France, but had experienced a lot of trouble from the Belgae. They...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Celtic Britain, British Developments slow
Celtic Britain, British Developments slow. Compared to countries bordering the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor, the development of Britain was slow. The first pyramid had been built in Egypt one thousand years before the construction of Stonehenge. By 2500...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
A place of Worship Britain
History of Britain, A place of Worship Britain. The dead as well as the living had homes. The earliest burial places were on the edges of settlements. The corpses were placed in an inner chamber with a stone roof and walls. When it was full, the...
Early village life history
History of Britain, Early village life history. Until the arrival of the Celts, there were no permanent homes. As the seasons changed, a man and his family moved on with their livestock in search of better grazing land. The valleys were thick with...
Monday, December 1, 2014
The Early Settlers
History of Britain, The Early Settlers. About 2000 years before Christ, a race of people came to Britain from the estuaries of Northern Europe. They were known as the Beaker Folk, after the clay mugs (beakers) they used to make. But their most important...
The First People
History of Britain. Half a million years ago, there were man-like creatures roaming the erth. They were probably able to make and use stone implements; they almost certainly knew how to build fires. According to one estimate, there were about two hundred...
Britain is Born
History of Britain. From the time Man first appeared in Britain over a quarter of a million years ago, wave upon wave of invaders from overseas raided and then settled the land. But with the Norman Conguest in 1066 all this was to change. Britain was...
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