En Beğenilen David McDowall Gönderileri
En Beğenilen David McDowall kitaplarını, en beğenilen David McDowall sözleri ve alıntılarını, en beğenilen David McDowall yazarlarını, en beğenilen David McDowall yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.The British Celts fought the raiders and settlers
from Germany as well as they could. However,
during the next hundred years they were slowly
pushed westwards until by 570 they were forced west of Gloucester. Finally most were driven into
the mountains in the far west, which the Saxons
called "Weallas", or "Wales", meaning "the land of
the foreigners"
Some Celts stayed behind, and
many became slaves of the Saxons. Hardly anything
is left of Celtic language or culture in England,
except for the names of some rivers, Thames,
Mersey, Severn and Avon , and two large cities,
London and Leeds.
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".
From this time, too, power seems to have shifted to
the Thames valley and southeast Britain. Except for
short periods, political and economic power has
remained in the southeast ever since. Hill-forts
replaced henges as the centres of local power, and
most of these were found in the southeast,
suggesting that the land successfully supported more
people here than elsewhere.
There was another reason for the shift of power
eastwards. A number of better-designed bronze
swords have been found in the Thames valley,
suggesting th at the local people had more advanced
metalworking skills. Many of these swords have
been found in river beds, almost certainly thrown
in for religious reasons. This custom may be the
origin of the story of the legendary King Arrhur's
sword, which was given to him from out of the
water and which was thrown back into the water
when he died.