HIST 3520 Lecture 6: Lecture Six
17 Dec 2015
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Same year that rome gets conquered by germans. People that stayed were the britons romanized chritisans. Three groups called the angles, saxons and the jutes emigrate from germany and holand. Among these kingdoms, usually one that is dominant strnger than the other: king of this land was called overlord (oe: bretwalda) These kingdoms can be called proto-states have some kind ofa government structure. Viking period: 780s-1066: viking attacks first divived then united the country, the saxons had to collaborate to efeat the vikings, became one culture during the vikings. Anglo-saxon chronicle described that the local sherriff noted a group of. Vikings who he thought were there to trade but were actually raiders noted that these were the first daneish ships that came. On other side, cleric alcuin , from northumbria said it was the wrath of god. Vikings were a punishment: said the anglo-saxons were sinful. Costal guard and navy didn"t function after civil war in fankia.
