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500 BCE
the Celts
- the Brythons-the Britons
- tamed and bred animals
- made coarse cloth, learned the art of pottery, made things of wool, metal and copper
- were good warriors-smelted iron, produced stronger weapons
- cruel religion
- the ancestor of the Gaelic and Welsh languages
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Period: 787 to 1066
the Vikings
fierce pagan seafaring warriors
the Danelaw
after the king´s, Alfred the Great, death, attacks resumed
