University of Cadi Iyyad

Faculty of Arts and humanities

Department of English Studies

 Module 19: British and American Culture and Society

 Dr. Hanane El Aissi

 Prehistoric Britain

Ice age

Stone Prehistoric Iron

Britain
age age

Bronze
age
Ice age Britain
8500 BC climate got warmer
than before.

6000 BC Britain became an island

Britain became forested

 The Stone Age/ Neolithic Age

 European people crossing the sea towards Britain

 ( migration).

 Farming and agriculture began.

 The rise of the number of domesticated animals: sheep, pigs

, cattle.
Stonehenge
 Bronze Age

 Working with metals, weapons and bronze tools.

 Neolithic people/ Britons: leaders of the British society.

 The Beaker people: Burial , cremation, barrows.

 The Iron Age: The Celts

 The Celts are people coming from central Europe or further

east , from southern Russia.

 Working with iron

 Ancestors of many British people.

 The Celts

 Trading/ farming/ Mild climate

 Tribal laws

 Celtic women were very powerful: Boadicea

 Roman Britain

Britain Pretani Britannia

 The Romans

 Britain was part of the Roman empire in 43 AD.

 The romans brought civilization to Britain: Reading and

writing and art…….

 Settlement on the north bank of the River Thames

 Founded London.
 The Romans

 The Hadrian wall

 Building towns and cities/ London bridge

 London was the capital/ the most important city in Europe.

 In 410 the empire began to collapse.

Evidence of the Romans
London Bridge
 The Invaders

The Anglo-Saxons ( 430 AD)

The Vikings ( 840 AD)

The Anglo-Saxons

Angles
Saxons
Jutes
 The question of Language
 Days of the week

 Saxon villages/ culture

 Affected by Arab empire

The Witan ( government)

 Adoption of Christianity.
 The Vikings: Pirates

 Carried out a daring raid on British people.

 The resistance of King Alfred of Wessex.

 The coming of the Dane law ( the Danes)

 Vikings/ Saxons

 The King Ethelred : A treaty between the Saxons and the

Vikings.

 King Edward ( the confessor)

 (the Normans were brought to England)

 Struggle over power : Harold/ Duke William of Normandy/

the Vikings.
The Norman Conquest