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Take this quiz to find out what you know about Ancient Britain. You could do this at the end of our topic to see how much you have learnt.

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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A Mini Guide to Prehistoric Monuments | Animated History

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Create your own Stone Age tool by making this paper axe!

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Look at key dates and the changing world from the beginning to the end of our topic.

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The first men and women came to Britain over two and a half million years ago. As the climate got warmer at the end of the second ice age, tribes of hunters and gatherers of food, who used simple stone tools and weapons, made their way into Britain. It was normal for them to move from place to place so they could find new resources.

These people left no literature, but they did leave many burial chambers, monuments and artifacts. Stone circles, Neolithic tombs and tools have been found all over the British Isles from the tip of Cornwall in the south to the very north of Scotland.

Britain used to be joined to the European land mass by a land bridge. It is believed that Stone Age man migrated to Britain across the land bridge. Britain became an island separate from the rest of Europe about 8,500 years ago, when melting ice formed the English Channel.

Year

What happened in Britain

The World

700,000 BC

People migrate to 'Britain' from Europe.
Britain is joined to Europe (no sea in between)
Mammoth, rhino and giant beavers live in 'Britain'
Date of earliest human tools found on Suffolk coast.

130,000 BC

Neanderthal Britain
The dominate human species is Neanderthal.

25,000 BC

Ice Age
Northern Europe and most of modern Britain is plunged into a deep Ice Age

12,000 BC

Beginning of the end of the Ice Age
Re-colonization of Britain by home sapiens.

8,500 BC

Warmer climate led to the growth of forests all over Britain.

6,000 BC

Britain becomes an Island.
The land bridge joining Britain to Europe flooded as the sea level rose

4,200 BC

Farming people arrive from Europe.

First evidence of farming
Farming quickly spread all across the British Isles. Land is cleared, wheat and barley planted , and herds of domesticated sheep, cattle, and pigs raised.

3,000 BC

New Stone Age begins: farming people arrive from Europe.

First stone circles erected.

2,800 BC

First phase of building Stonehenge

2,700 BC

Tools and weapons made from copper

2,100 BC

Bronze Age begins

First metal workers
People learn to make bronze weapons and tools.
Introduction of cremation of the dead and burials in round barrows.

Beaker culture - their name is thought to originate from the distinctive beakers that accompanied their burials. They were farmers and archers. They lived in round huts (similar to the Celts) with a low stone wall for a base. The roof was made of thatch, turf, or hides.

2,000 BC

1650 BC

Trade routes began to form

1200 BC

Small Villages were first formed

1136-1327

753

Romulus and Remus found Rome.

750 BC

Iron Age began
Iron replaces bronze as most useful metal.
Population about 150,000.

563

Birth of Prince Siddhartha Gautama. He later became Buddha

509

Rome expels kings and becomes a republic.

500 BC

The Celtic people arrive from Central Europe.
The Celts were farmers and lived in small village groups in the centre of their arable fields. They were also warlike people. The Celts fought against the people of Britain and other Celtic tribes.

Next Roman Britain

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The first men and women came to Britain over two and a half million years ago. As the climate got warmer at the end of the second ice age, tribes of hunters and gatherers of food, who used simple stone tools and weapons, made their way into Britain.

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Video: What happened in prehistoric Britain?

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Video: What happened in prehistoric Britain?

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Have you ever wondered what prehistoric Britain looked like? From the early hunter gatherers who lived nine hundred thousand years ago, through the Ages - Ice, Stone, Bronze and Iron to the fearsome Celtic warriors and ending in the Roman invasion.

Children could create a timeline of the ages of prehistory in the school playground or hall. They could also could research and compare tools and weapons from these ages. Dioramas could be made for settlements or dwellings for each age.

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What happened in prehistoric Britain? - KS2 History - BBC Bitesize

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Have you ever wondered what prehistoric Britain looked like? From the early hunter gatherers who lived nine hundred thousand years ago, through the Ages - Ice, Stone, Bronze and Iron to the fearsome Celtic warriors and ending in the Roman invasion. Children could create a timeline of the ages of prehistory in the school playground or hall.

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A fantastic page with videos and interactive ideas

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Hunting and gathering was the focus of everyone's lives. It only began to change when humans began to farm. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use as hunting spears.

Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire . After a good day's hunting people could feast on meat. But the next day they had to start finding food again!

They used animal skins to make clothes and shelters.

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What was life like in the Mesolithic Stone Age?

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Hunting and gathering was the focus of everyone's lives. It only began to change when humans began to farm. In the early Stone Age, people made simple hand-axes out of stones. They made from bones or antlers and they sharpened sticks to use as hunting spears.