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Germanic invasions of the Angles, Saxons and the Jutes

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What does this invasion mark?

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The beginning of the English language

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Where did the Anglo Saxons come from?

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From the regions of nothern Germany

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Where did the Jutes come from?

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From the area of modern Denmark

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What language did thes tribes speak?

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Varieties lf the West Germanic language

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Angleland

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Land of the Angles

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Fifth to ninth century

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The island reverted to the barbarious and wild situation of the pre Roman days

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Artus

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A Briton leader who, for some time after 517, was able to put some successful resistance to the Germanics

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What legend was born from Artus

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The legend of King Arthur

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Characteristics of the Germanic tribes

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Barbarous and savage tribes, pirates, with a very primitive system of social organization.

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How did the Germanic tribes organize themselves?

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In groups of thirty families

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Elected common leader of a group of families

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Bretwalda

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How did they solve problems of everyday life?

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They called a witan

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Witan

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A sort of council of the old and wise man, to get their advice

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Weregild

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A sort of monetary compensation that the offender had to pay to the family of the murdered person depending on the range and social prestige of the defunct

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Four most important kingdoms of the heptarchy

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Northumbria, Mercia, Kent, Wessex

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Germanic religion

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They believed in Germanic mythology of gods and goddesses

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Days of the week and Germanic gods

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Monday and the moon
Tuesday and Tiw
Wednesday and Woden
Thursday and Thor
Friday and Frejya
Saturday and Sunday recall latin names
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Moral of the Germanic tribes

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Physical and moral courage, endurance, and a rough sense of honesty

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Arrival of Christianism

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560s ac

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Pelagious

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Developed his own doctrine about salvation rejecting the notion lf the original sin whereas he stressed man’smoral capacity to choose between good and evil.

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Patrick

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Carried the christian gospel to Ireland sometime in the fourth century

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Two missions during 567

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Irish monks led by St Columba started their activities in Northumbria
Group of Roman monks led by St Augustine began preaching in the peninsula of Kent

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664 ac

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Synod in Withby, conference where both missions recognised that Jesus had appointed Peter as the head of the church, so it was necessary to follow the leadership of the Roman church

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Importance of the conference of Withby

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It linked the development of England to the mainstream of European culture for the following centuries

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Why did the German tribes adopt Christianism so rapidly?

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Because it offered answers for all the great enigmas of life, and it caught the attention of the gloomy Germanics

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Monasteries

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Large religious houses in which monks lived together to pray and work, ora et labora

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Activities at the monasteries

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Working the soil, raising cattle and stock, healing the sick, building churches and edifices, weaving cloth, making chalices and dishes with prcious metals, storing food, grain, and wine, etc.

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Most important activity carried out at the monasteries

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The writing of manuscripts at the scriptorium

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What did the monks write in the manuscripts?

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The learning and treasures of the past, but also they started chronicles lf their own time.

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Bede

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Monk who wrote Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in the monastery of Jarrow

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Nennius

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Wrote Historia Britonum in the seventh c

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Gildas

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Wrote De Excidio et Conquestu Britaniae

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Importance of monasteries

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Where the light of civilization survived during the dark ages of Europe, where knowledge, learning, technology, history, etc. survived.

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Barbarian tribes that were assaulting Europe

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Vandals, Goths, Huns

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Importance of the Christian church at the time

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First institution in shaping of the English society and its worldwide

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Anglo Saxons character and weather

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They were sad and depressive, probably because of the harshness of the weather.

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Wyrd

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Destiny that is always fatal

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What do their literary creations reveal?

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Their no space for woman, love, or beauty. Also, their obsessions and fears.

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Typical device of the Anglo Saxon poetry

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Alliteration

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