What is the entire history of the Anglo-Saxons, from after 800BC?
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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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MEDIEVAL ECONOMICS\n\nThe people of the former Roman province of Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries had to make their living in difficult circumstances. Around them lay the ruins of imperial grandeur. In the cities, public buildings and private houses were in decay; on the frontiers, the forts were abandoned; in the country, the aristocratic villas were crumbling. This was not just a matter of physical decline or political change because as the Roman state was dismantled, so roads, bridges and ports were neglected, the coinage disappeared, government spending ceased and the elite of the armed forces and civil administration were no longer employing labor or consuming goods on a large scale. Trade dwindled and the former mass-producing industries collapsed. The native British population faced major upheavals in their way of life, including unemployment and a breakdown in law and order. The German immigrants from across the North Sea, who had been attracted by the opulence of the province, had to adapt to a changing society. \n\nWithout trade, easy communications or imperial government, the cities could not provide a living for a large population and almost everyone lived in the countryside. Here again they had no alternative but to adapt to a restricted economy. Apart from problems of security there would be no more large surpluses to be sold in the towns. The villas were taken over by succeeding generations of native British or Anglo-Saxon immigrants who put up buildings of wood. In some cases the territory around the villa persisted as an estate unit and the owners obtained tribute from the local peasants. \n\nThe priority of country-dwellers lay in providing for their own subsistence. In southern and eastern England they lived in timber houses often measuring 15 by 30 feet, associated with smaller structures with sunken floors built for storage, craft work (such as weaving) and accomodations for servants and dependants. \n\nEven in the reduced circumstances of the post-Roman recession, households could not meet all of their consumption requirements from their own resources. They wove their own cloth and no doubt built their own houses and made implements from wood. But they needed iron weapons and farming tools and women wore ornate jewelry manufactured from copper alloy. These could only be supplied by specialists with crfating skills and raw materials so some surpluses from the land were exchanged. \n\nA society with an emphasis on production for use and which had limited facilities for exchange was not likely to be deeply stratified. Elites collected foodstuffs from the peasants in some form but they had limited ways of disposing of goods once they satisfied their followers. While the people of 5th and 6th Century England adapted successfully to their post-imperial world, this was still a traumatic process. The losses of population far outweighed the gains from migration partly as a result of plague epidemics in the 6th Century, but more as uncertainties and the lack of economic opportunity discouraged marriage and child-rearing. We can only make an educated guess at the overall figures but the sparsity of settlements, the abandonment of towns and the retreat of cultivation could point to at least halving the population. Thus numbers fell from a peak of perhaps 5 million in the 2nd Century to less than 2 million by 600 AD.
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Medieval Period\n500 - 1450 AD
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It evolved over time--still IS evolving.  Basically it developed out of the languages various groups brought with them when they invaded England.  The Angles, Saxons and Jutes came over and gave the language its Germanic base (which it still has)--that's Old English. (Go ahead--just try and read "Beowulf" in the original...)  The Danes joined in and added Scandinavian words, and then the French came over in 1066 and added French--now you get Middle English.  (And you can try to read Chaucer in the original--better, but still really hard.)  It kept getting refined after that, in every generation; by the time you get to Shakespeare and the King James Bible (1600s) it's mostly modern English if you don't count the thees and thous.  So I guess the correct answer is, we all do.\n\nThe thing about English is that, unlike some other languages, it's really adaptable--it's able to absorb words from many other languages.  It's possible to have one sentence in English that has words that started as Greek, Latin, German, Danish, French, Arabic and Spanish.  If you don't believe me...Come with me between Algebra and Psychology class--we'll pick up a couple of burritos... :-)
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Ancient history is from the period of time when writing and historical records first appear, roughly 5,500 years before the Birth of Christ. For some, the discovery of agriculture, roughly 6,000 BC is the beginning of ancient history. The most common date for an end of ancient history in Europe is AD 476 (the fall of the Western Roman Empire), however the exact date is still disputed among various historians. In Europe ancient history was followed by Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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When some of the ten tribes migrated across the caucasus mountains into Europe.\n\nSaxons came from Isaacs sons, I-saacs sons, saacs sons, saxons.
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Anglo Saxons are a Germanic people, whilst Slavics are a Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Polish people.
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Post Helenic Period...\n\nWhen was that?  I assume after the death Alex the Great.
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Over the Centuries England has fought wars on nearly every continent and with nearly every race and religion.    As for the middle east, England's most notable conflict is probably "The Third Crusade" - specifically under King Richard I .   \n\nKing Richard "The Lionhearted" Plantagenet  spent most of his Reign (1189-1199) leading his soldiers in a crusade to reclaim the holy land... a battle agains the arabian people spanning lands from Egypt to Syria.
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The Egptians have had writing for as long as anyone.  The Greeks, Romans, Vandals and Arabs all recorded their history in writing.\n\nSouth of the Sahara history was an opral tradition, although there are references to Africa in Greek, Roman, Arab, Indian and Chinese writings.\n\nThere has been a European colony on the Cape of Good Hope for about 400 years, so that history has been recorded.  Apart from that, there have been regular European contacts for about 600 years.
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they all hate the english.but look on a early map and there were many different groups in england alone the norse raided all of these people and raped and pillaged and the scots and irish help each other so interbread now so much more alike than different now 15th century much more differences 9th century all different 4bc romans came to england so.1066 normans came.
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~Charlemagne, between 772 and 784, united the Gauls in what we know today as France.  Son of  Carloman II, a Teutonic king, from the principality of   Scleissweg and last monarch of house of Froghliche, Charles was of German stock.  By 771, the Gauls had become so far removed from their  Teutonic roots that they no longer considered themselves Germanic. Realizing the jeopardy the Gaul's animosity to things german would place his throne in, he changed the family surname to Froggeaux in 789.\n\nEver mindful of the insult upon them, the germanic fiefdoms never forgot Charlemagne's original family name, and began calling the Gauls Froggeaux, particularly during the heat of the many battles between the 2 nations over the ensuing centuries.\n\nAnother confederation of germanic tribes, the Anglos, the Saxons and the Normans (progenators of today's British), picked up on the name and anglicized it,  in Shakespeare's time (as evidenced by his use of the term in no fewer than three of his sonnets), to Frogge.  It was a small step to today's Frog.
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Commonly ascribed to the monk Gildas, the "De Excidio Britanniae" (the loss of Britain), was written about 540. As previously mentioned, it is not a good history, for it is most mere polemic. Closely followed by Bede, the account is the first to narrate what has traditionally been regarded as the story of the coming of the Saxons to Britain. Their success, regarded by Gildas as God's vengeance against the Britons for their sins, was a theme repeated by Bede isolated in his monastery in the north. We note, however, that Gildas made the statement that, in his own day, the Saxons were not warring against the Britons. We can be certain that the greater part of the pre-English inhabitants of England survived, and that a great proportion of present-day England is made up of their descendants.\n\nTHERE IS MUCH MORE... CHECK OUT THE WEB SITE BELOW..
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Hi,\n\nThe best way to learn Old English is, for sure, studying it at a university. However, if you don't have that opportunity, there are tons of internet sites and books which may help you learn it yourself. It's a little harder, but possible. \n\nBut, the question is, where are you going to use it? You should know that it's a very hard Germanic language to learn, much harder than modern English or German, with many genders and complicated inflections. If you don't plan to study it for academic purposes, I personally believe, it "might" be a waste of time. Learning dead languages might be fun but, they're usually daunting, becouse you won't always be able to get sufficient help or sources. \n\nAnyway, if you're serious about it, I suggest that you start by reading bilingual texts (texts which give the Old English and Modern English versions of the same piece of work facing each other.), in order to get an idea of it. \n\nFor Old English grammar on web, the best web site I have seen so far is on: http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/research/rawl/IOE/index.html\n\nFor audio samples of Old English, you can check: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/ \n\nThere are other links as well about the language and the culture:\n\nTHE ANGLO SAXON HOMEPAGE\nhttp://www.wsu.edu:8080/~hanly/oe/503.html\n \nANGLO SAXON ENGLAND\nhttp://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/vikings/angsaxe.html\n \nANGLO SAXON CULTURE\nhttp://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/british_isles/anglo-saxon/anglo-saxon.html#Elecbeo\n \nANGLO SAXON RESOURCES DIRECTORY\nhttp://www.britannia.com/history/h50.html\n \nTHE ANGLO SAXON CHRONICLE\nhttp://omacl.org/Anglo/\nhttp://www.britannia.com/history/docs/asintro2.html\n \nSTUDY OF ENGLISH DURING OLD SAXON PERIOD\nhttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/courses/6361Crellin.htm\n \nWIKIPEDIA\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_language\n \nOLD ENGLISH LANGUAGE\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_English_language\n \nOLD ENGLISH PHONOLOGY\nhttp://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/fajardo/teaching/eng520/oldeng.htm\n \nOLD ENGLISH PERIOD\nhttp://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/teaching/upperdiv/oldeng.htm\n \nMEDIEAVAL STUDIES\nhttp://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/\nhttp://www.netserf.org/Civilizations/Anglo_Saxon/\n \n \nUNICODE FONT (Necessary for viewing Old English characters on your computer)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
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English originated from the Old Saxon language and related dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany. The original Old English language was subsequently influenced by two successive waves of invasion. The first was by speakers of languages in the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family, who colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries. The second wave was of the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke a variety of French.
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These will help. In fact, do a search for 'britian 2000 BC' and you will find a lot!
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Latin - who knows . . . is the answer searchable?\n\nI cheated . . . looked it up . . . \n\nOld English (449 - 1066 CE)\n\nThe Old English language (also called Anglo-Saxon) dates back to 449 CE. The Celts had been living in England when the Romans invaded. Although they invaded twice, they did not conquer the Celts until 43 CE and Latin never overtook the Celtic language. The Romans finally left England in 410 CE as the Roman Empire was collapsing, leaving the Celts defenseless. Then the Germanic tribes from the present-day area of Denmark arrived. The four main tribes were the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. These tribes set up seven kingdoms called the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy that included: Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and East Anglia. Four dialects were spoken in these kingdoms: West Saxon, Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian. The Celts moved north to Scotland, west to Ireland and south to France, leaving the main area of Britain.