The Invader Tribes Of Britain
In its history, Britain hosted many people from the world. Many tribes came to England from
the world's different areas and all of them left their own sign. Their signs were their buildings,
their roads, their city names, their language, their religion, or else. Some of them consist of
them survive up to the present but some of them lose their existence. All of these contributed
to England's development and caused it to be its current form.
In the Iron Age, Celts were a group of people who came from central Europe or further east,
from southern Russia to Britain. They had their own culture and their own language. They
lived in tribes. They were more advanced people than people who were lived before them.
They used iron, not bronze. They could make their weapons. Because they were more
advanced than the others, they controlled all the lowland in Britain. New arrivals from Europe
joined them and their arrival continued over the next seven hundred years. They were the
ancestors of many people in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Cornwall. They had many different
tribes and the tribes' chiefs were selected by families or tribe. The Belgic tribe was the last
Celtic arrivals from Europe. Celts busied with agriculture and they were very successful
farmers, they could grow enough food for themselves. They built hillforts, they were
something like towns. The insides of Hillforts there were houses. Trade was important to
them. Trade was a connection between the tribes. Their money was iron bars but then they
copied the Roman coins. A warrior class which was including Druids ruled the Celtic tribes.
Druids very important part of Celtic culture. Although they did not know writing or reading,
they could memorize everything. Two of the largest cities were ruled by women. The most
powerful Celt was a woman, Boadicea. She was the queen of her tribe, she led her tribe
against the Romans but she was killed. The name “Britain” comes from “Pretani” but The
Romans mispronounced the word and called “Britannia”. The Romans invaded Britain
because the Celts gave food to Gauls and allowed them to hide in Britain. The Romans
brought reading and writing skills. With the coming of Romans, only the peasant class was
speaking the Celtic language, the richer class was speaking Latin. But then Latin disappeared
when Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain. Julius Ceaser invaded the islands with his army but only
Boadicea made difficulties for the Roman army. The Romans could not conquer Caledonia
(Scotland). The Roman empire in Britain collapsed and then Celts had to fight with Saxons
and Franks. Towns were the most obvious things in Roman Britain. When they left Britain,
their towns and roads remained. In Roman Britain's life span was short, half of the population
died before forty.
Anglo-Saxon invaders came from Germany. They were three powerful tribes, the Saxons,
Angles, and Jutes. They named the island "Britain", and it means that "the land of Angles".
The Anglo-Saxon drove into the Celts to Wales, Cornwall, and Scotland. The rest of the Celts
were enslaved by Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons gave Germanic gods name to the days.
