En Yeni David McDowall Sözleri ve Alıntıları
En Yeni David McDowall sözleri ve alıntılarını, en yeni David McDowall kitap alıntılarını, etkileyici sözleri 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.The strength of Anglo-Saxon culture is obvious
even today. Days of the week were named after
Germanic gods: Tig (Tuesday), Wodin
(Wednesday), Thor (Thursday), Frei (Friday)
The Romans could not conquer "Caledonia", as
they called Scotland, although they spent over a
century trying to do so. At last they built a strong
wall along the northern border, named after the Emperor Hadrian who planned it. At the time, Hadrian's wall was simply intended to keep out
raiders from the north. But it also marked the
border between the two later countries, England
and Scotland.
The Romans brought the skills of reading and
writing to Britain. The written word was important
for spreading ideas and also for estab lishing power.
As early as AD 80, as one Roman at the time noted,
the governor Agricola "trained the sons of chiefs in
the liberal arts .. . the result was that the people
who used to reject Latin began to use it in speech
and writing. Further the wearing of our national
dress came to be valued and the toga [the Roman
cloak] came into fashion.
The Romans had invaded because the Celts of
Britain were working with the Celts of Gaul against
them. The British Celts were giving them food, and
allowing them to hide in Britain. There was
another reason . The Celts used cattle to pull their
ploughs and this meant that richer, heavier land
could be farmed. Under the Celts Britain had
become an important food producer because of its
mild climate. It now exported corn and animals, as
well as hunting dogs and slaves, to the European
mainland. The Romans could make use of British
food for their own army fighting the Gauls.
The name "Britain" comes from the word "Pretani ", the Greco-Roman word for the
inhabitants of Britain. The Romans mispronounced
the word and called the island "Britannia".
During the Celtic period women may have had
more independence than they had again for
hundreds of years. When the Romans invaded
Britain two of the largest tribes were ruled by
women who fought from their chariots. The most
powerful Celt to stand up to the Romans was a
woman, Boadicea. She had become queen of her
tribe when her husband had died. She was tall,
with long red hair, and had a frightening
appearance. In AD 61 she led her tribe against the
Romans. She nearly drove them from Britain, and
she destroyed London, the Roman capital, before
she was defeated and killed. Roman writers
commented on the courage and strength of women
in battle, and leave an impression of a measure of
equality between the sexes among the richer Celts.