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Religion was a means of ensuring success in material things. You might pray to a particular goddess, to do well in a battle or for a good harvesting season. Some of the main Anglo- Saxon gods were Tiw, Wodin, Thor, and Friya. They were worshiped on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. There is a tale that female slaves may have been sacrificed on the death of a male owner and included in the grave to accompany him in the next world.

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He was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England, 849.
His father died when he was young, and his three brothers took turns reigning.

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Life was not easy for the Anglo-Saxons. Society was divided into three classes: thanes, churls, and the thralls. The land in the early times was covered by forest. The human population was very small, there were about one million people in England at that time. They grew their own food and they made their own clothes.

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Roman Britain was established in 43 A.D. and lasted until 410 A.D.  The Romans used trade as a way to influence the people of Britain. The Romans founded London in 50 A.D.

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King of Wessex from 871-899.

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He fought the Vikings and then made peace so that the English and Vikings could settle down to live together.

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The way they could become a slave:
- bad luck to be born a slave
- war, many conquered Celtic Britons would have become slaves
- if they were unable to pay a fine
- people would sell a child into it
The way out..
- could be ransomed by relatives
- granted freedom in an owner's will
- payed off their debt by work

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Gender was influenced by social status, religion, and sexuality.
-They were not allowed to have private influence or intervention in public affairs.
-took full responsibility of the day to day activities of their household
-in marriage the husband would pay the land and the women would have full control over it
- the women had the possibility of marrying anyone they chose

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The Celtics were very different from the Anglo Saxons in a way that Anglo Saxons were mostly men and Celtics were strong women.

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The Celtics were always positive and had enchanted imaginations.

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The first British Settlers were tall and blonde. They were also warriors who called themselves the Celts.The Celts believed in a religion called animism. Animism means "Spirit" in Latin. They also believed that spitit gods controlled their lives.

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The Celtics inflluence British and Irish writers even to this day. In the 15th century, Sir Thomas Malory gathered the Celtic legands about a warrior named Aurthor.

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Alfred the Great was known for his social and educational reforms along with his military successes. He was the only English monarch known as 'the Great'.

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An Anglo Saxon house

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At the time the Romans took control, the people of England were separated into tribes. The Roman legions had to subjugate many of the tribes through force. Those tribes not conquered, always faced conflict by the constant Roman military presence.

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This wall was constructed from east to west through England, creating the border of the Roman Empire. Built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. The border was pushed forward during Antonius Pius' reign but it later returned to Hadrian's Wall.

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The Mythology of the Celts has influenced English and Irish writers to this day.

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Celtic legends are full of strong women, fantastic animals, passionate love affairs, and fabulous adventures. They take place in enchanted lands where magic and imagination rule.

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The Celts were a group of tribal societies in ancient Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had similar culture. Present day Celts live in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and small parts of France and England.

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Beaowulf is an anonymous Old English poem about a hero from Geatland who travels to Denmark where he killed man-eating monsters, and who, in later life, back home in Sweden, confronts and kills a fire-breathing dragon, but dies in the effort.

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Nathan Mongell
Adriana Andrus
Rylee Upton
Raine Reilly

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Hailey Martray
Valerie Bowman
Fallon Goodlin