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David McDowall kitaplarını, David McDowall sözleri ve alıntılarını, David McDowall yazarlarını, David McDowall yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.At first the Germanic
tribes only raided Britain , but after AD 430 they
began to settle. The newcomers were warlike and
illiterate. We owe our knowledge of this period
mainly to an English monk named Bede, who lived
three hundred years later. His story of events in his
Ecclesiastical History of the English People has been
proved generally correct by archaeological
evidence.
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 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.