THE BRITISH ISLES prehistoric times positioning: trade route connecting the Mediterranean civilization and the North THE IBERIANS 3,000 -2,000 BC small, dark, long-headed race race of the New Stone Age monuments in Cornwall, Ireland, Wales and Scotland RACE RELATED TO THE IBERIANS after 2,000 BC inhabited the East coast bronze working merged with the Iberians built the Stonehenge complex (before 1,000 BC) THE CELTS approx. 700 BC tall, fair-haired, war-like three waves: the Goidels, the Brithons, the Belgae kinship – tribal organization THE ROMANS Caesar – in 55 BC and 54 BC actual conquest began in AD 43 AD 60 - the revolt of the Iceni >>> Queen Boadicea Roman occupation lasted around 400 years >>> year 407 THE ANGLES, THE SAXONS AND THE JUTES invading tribes (the Scots and the Picts, the Goths and the Vandals) the Britons called for help help came in AD 449 and never left again the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes – Germanic origin described by Julius Caesar (De bello gallico), Strabo (Geographica), Tacitus (Germania) tall, fair-haired, savage and superstitious heathen >>> mythology >>> real life for them THE ANGLO-SAXON MYTHOLOGY Woden – supreme deity Thor – god of thunders Freya – goddess of love and fertility Tiu – god of darkness Oestra - goddess of heathen spring Wyrd – goddess of fate >>> Shakespeare’ Macbeth Watch and learn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tldPrQ_AY