What really happened to the Celts in what is now England?
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There are in fact several theories, but the fact is that they where assimilated into the anglo-saxon society as has happened with many cultures around the world. For instance, the Mayans, the Incas, and so on.\n\nThe inter-racial and inter-social mending, does not mean that the ancestors have dissapeared at all. With technology advancement and DNA prints, you will be surprised to know that these ancient societies are well represented in today's modern generation.\n\nIf you wish to expand your understanding of ancient societies, would recommend you go to a search engine and type in: ancient societies - celts you will be directed to at least 300 well informed web pages.
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It is England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. With the Act of Union 1707, the independent states of England and Scotland, having been in personal union since 1603, agreed to a political union as the Kingdom of Great Britain. \n\nThe Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1169 and 1691, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Independence for the now Republic of Ireland in 1922 brought the partition of the island of Ireland, with six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster remaining within the UK, which then changed to the current name in 1927. Wales, under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284, became part of the Kingdom of England by the Laws in Wales Act 1535 but is normally considered to be a kingdom in its own right having its own legislature.
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Because a tribe called the Angles / Engles once inhabited it. "England" literally means "land of the Angles."
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sadly they did at the turn of the last century ireland wanted to rule themselves but britain had other ideas resulting in a lot of irish people losing their lives                really good question
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era
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The current distribution of the wolverine (Gulo gulo) does not include England (see the map and data at this link:\nhttp://bss.sfsu.edu/geog/bholzman/courses/Fall00Projects/wolverine.html )\nHowever, a fossil wolverine has been found in England dated at about 83,000 years before present, so they went extinct there after the Late Pleistocene, well before historical times.\n\nOriginal research article (sorry I don't have a link): Sutcliffe, A. J. et al. 1985. Wolverine in northern England at about 83,000 yr B.P. faunal evidence for climatic change during isotope stage 5. Quarternary Research: 24:73-86.\n\nThis fossil is also mentioned in this publication:\nhttp://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePDFs/2005/2005%20-%20Pike%20et%20al%20-%20U-series%20dating%20of%20the%20Late%20Pleistocene.pdf
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It was the Elizabethan Age, the reign of Elizabeth I.  The explorations by the English began then, and the difficulties with Spain and the defeat of its Armada occured then.  There was a good deal of artistic fourishing, and also an increase in commerce and trade, and the usual political/religious bickering.  That was as far as England goes, but all of Europe was similarly in more or less the same phase of opening up to new worlds and new combinations of power and politics and economic growth.
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Read the Anglo-Saxon Epic poem Beowulf.  Good stuff. Tells about their life but you can tell what isn't real.
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Ther isn't just one major Goddess in Celtic religions - for one thing, "Celtic" includes Welsh, Irish, and Scots.\n\nAnd, in reality, the "Celts" lived across Europe for a long time; the reson that most of what we know about their worship comes from the British Isles because that's where the lore was preserved.\n\nThis is a good resource:\nhttp://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deitiesc.html
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I don't think that the celts' religious systems, as we know them today, existed for 60,000 years...\n\nHowever, your are correct about the Aborigines.  Aboriginal Dreamtime has existed for an estimated 60,000 years.
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The English...back in the day
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"Anglo-Saxon" refers to a type of people. The mix of the Angles and the Saxons in England around the time of the middle ages which occured when they pushed the Celts out into Wales and Scotland.
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Any supposed line of descendants of Jesus (such as "who fathered three children") is to be considered not credible.\n\nAs for the origins of the "first people of Ireland" ...perhaps some associate them with the ideas of the British-Israelites. Or you might consider http://www.irelandseye.com/irish/people/settlers/prehist1.shtm which, of course, includes evolutionist-type dating.\n\nThere is another legend which some believe, of David's descendants being connected with British Royalty. British-Israelism or similar named groups. Some of them believe that the Lost Ten Tribes of the Northern House of Israel’s descendants are to be found in the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic and kindred peoples of today.
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It depends to some extent on the status, and the period you are talking about (the entire Anglo-Saxon period was from around 380CE to 1066CE)\n\nThe poorest families would dig a deep pit, build a wooden frame over the top and cover that with reeds/straw etc as thatch. The more usual homes were single storey with walls of wooden planks and again covered with a roof of thatch. Chiefs and richer villagers did the same sort of thing, on a larger scale.\n\nIf you'd like to see what they looked like try the site below.
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Cymru forever! Yep, once the english give back the lands and livestock (including soccer players) they pillaged from the vales of Wales.
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People are weird. Being English I can tell you that all of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England are made up of counties. Northern Ireland has six, Scotland has about 12/13, Wales has about 15/16, and England has about 32/34 (the boundaries keep changing.). The largest in England would probably be Northamptonshire or Yorkshire, while the smallest is Shropshire(though it's hard to tell on either account).
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http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html\n\nhttp://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/\n\nhttp://www.kingarthursknights.com/