History of Medieval England - Thursday 6th Period: Discussion 1: Introduction and Pre-history to 500

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Good afternoon, class. Now I get to torture you all by making you all stand up and introduce yourselves to your classmates. This is because I'm sadistic want to get you used to the concept of talking during our discussion sessions. Please give your name and what one thing you'd like to find out in this class.

Your homework, due next Tuesday but to be posted in this post is to pick a topic from the once-optional-now-mandatory reading list I gave you on Prehistoric Britain and Roman Britain and give me ETA a minimum of one hundred Wikipedia words on it. Got it? Good.

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Re: HOMEWORK: Hand in next Tuesday's homework here

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

The Celtic Druids were one of the more intriguing societies in western civilization. The Celts, actually a mix of races with similar cultures, first appeared in Britain as early as 2000 B.C. In fact, some scholars hold that they were the ones responsible for Stonehenge. Their society was fairly rigid, though just; a complicated system determined how land was distributed among its members, and the old, the sick, and the poor were given ample assistance by the rest of the community.

Although the Celts were really a rabble of disparate tribes, they were bound together by their religion, that of the Druids. Their Druid priests taught that the soul was immortal, thus implying reincarnation, but more importantly they were the magistrates and knowledge-keepers of the land, holding civilization together.