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

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((ooc: I knew I'd forgotten something...))

Most people believe the Celtic peoples to be the true natives of Britain, but in fact they were the first of the several waves of invaders of the small, damp isle. During the Iron Age, prior to the Celtic invasion (circa 500-100 BCE), Britain was occupied by the native people of what is now considered Wales. The Celts were, in fact, part of a large conquering empire that stretched across much of northern Europe, known as the Keltoi by the ancient Greeks. All of this is conjecture from archaeological finds, as none of the pre-Roman peoples of Britain had a written language.