INVADERS-FIRST PEOPLES IN BRITAIN (pag. 48)
The first people living in Britain were the Iberians. They
came from Spain
and were dark and short. They lived in a very simple way. They were conquered
by the Celts. They were organized in villages and every village had a head and
a druid. Th 757f59h e druid was the priest and was a very important person. Their
religion was pagan and they made human sacrifices. The famous Stonehenge,
a group of huge stones put in a circular way with a great stone in the middle,
is a Celtic monument. The Celts came from the North of Europe. They divided in
two groups; a group went to Britain,
the other one went to Gale. In 55 B.C Julius Caesar made the first expedition
in Great Britain
because he wanted to know this isle and because he wanted to punish the Celts
for the help given to the Gales. He wasn't ready to attack the Celts in a
proper way; so he went back to Rome without
colonising the isle and imposing only some taxes to pay to Rome. The real roman conquest took place in 43 A.D and the Romans were
able to subdue the Celts. The Romans colonized the isle and organized them from
a social, legislative, military point of view. They built roads, towns, in fact
all the towns built by the Romans had their names with the ending "chester" that, means
castra; even Londinium was founded by the Romans. The Romans built also baths,
amphitheatres and schools. The Celts who did not accept the Roman rule went to
live in Caledonia (Scotland)
and were called the Picts, others went to live in Wales
and others in Ireland.
In 121 A.D
the Emperor Adrian made a wall built between Roman Britain and Caledonia. As regards religion, the Romans and the
Romano-Britons worshipped gods and goddesses and Celts followed their religion.
There was also the starting of Christian evangelisation.
