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• 1 Class 1 chapter 1

• 1.1 THE CELTIC AND ROMAN ERA (UP TO 410 AD)

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• When did the British isles first get settled?

  10.000 BCE

• What was the Neolithic revolution and when did it take place?

  The Neolithic revolution is a process that started around 4000 BCE in which hunter-gatherers started living in dispersed hamlets.
  This agricultural lifestyle developed first and foremost in the plains of south-east England

• What prompted the spread of agricultural lifestyle throughout the rest of the British isles

  Around 1000 BCE the bad weather pushed peasants to heavily deforest and spread to previously unreachable parts of the isles

• Noticeable start of celtic presence (date)

  6th century BCE

• What period did agrarian societies develop metallurgy

  2000BCE

• What period did agrarian societies develop Iron

  800BCE

• British tribes inviting Caesar to the isles

  55-53 BCE

• Christianity became the roman state religion in:

  380 CE

• Why did Romans pull back?

  Problems started with Scottisch and Irish raiders. Growing funds needed to protect the country were too high
  Romans withdrew in 410

• 1.2 THE ‘DARK AGES’ (FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES)

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• What after the romans pulled back?

  Population had to fend for themselves. The taxes they paid for warfare left them weak and as a result, the demand for goods produced in towns declined. Industrial production of pottery and iron ceased and villas fell into dissuse.