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THE ANGLO SAXONS

Marco Antognarelli, Federico Borrelli, Elia Catellani

Society

• Obey laws
• Pay taxes
• Provide military service

• Collect taxes (they kept 1/3)
• Maintain the Elite of the Army
• Help the Government

• Make laws
• Rise the army
• Give and take land from followers

The Shire Reeve had to keep law and order (where they ruled)

• If a crime was commited, it was up to all the people of the town to find the person who committed the crime, this is the Hue and Cry ( It was the duty of any person discovering a crime to raise the hue and cry)

• Help govern differents part of the Country
• Collect taxes (they kept 1/3)
• Maintain the Elite of the Army (Housecarls)

• Make laws
• Rise the army
• Give and take land from followers

POLITICAL SYSTEM

THE ORIGINS

The people we call Anglo-Saxons were actually immigrants from northern Germany who came to England after the Romans left.

ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS

The Anglo-Saxon period in Britain spans approximately from 410 AD-1066 AD.They were divided in to 7 Kingdoms: Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, East Anglia, Essex, Sussex, Wessex. Political system: . Society:

But from the end of the 6th century, missionaries from Rome and Ireland converted the rulers of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity.

RELIGION

The Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain in the 5th century were pagans.

the influence of the Anglo-Saxons

• The Anglo-Saxons contributed essentialy to the foundation of modern English through:
• Vocabulary: foot, hand (body), eat, sleep (actions), mother, father (family).
• Prefixes and Suffixes: "-dom" (Kingdom), "An." and "Mis-"

A short history of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain

Their invasion was slow and gradual, and began even before the Roman legions departed: Anglo-Saxon mercenaries had for many years fought in the Roman Army in Britain, so they were not total strangers to the island.

Language

The language of the Anglo-Saxons, known as Old English, was spoken in England from approximately the 5th century to the 11th century.