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Anglo-Saxon Britain around 780
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Discussion points
- Following the decline of the Roman Empire, there was a lot of movement of people in Europe. It was called the 'Migration Period'.
- The Germanic tribes (the Jutes, the Saxons, the Angles and others) that moved to Britain were themselves being pushed out by people moving from further East.
- 'Anglo-Saxon' is a term that applies to the most powerful of the Germanic settlers, the Angles and the Saxons, as opposed to the Brittonic natives (the Britons) that they displaced.
- The word 'heptarchy' comes from 'hepta' meaning 'seven' (as in 'heptagon') and 'arche' meaning 'reign' (as in 'monarch'). It refers to the seven main Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of this time.
- At this time, sea levels were higher and a lot of lowland England was wetland.
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