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Angels/Saxons

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ROMAN

BARBARIANS
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LEADERS

  • Alfred
  • Leif Eriksson
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THE REASONS WHY THE ANGLO/SAXONS SETTLE IN BRITIAN

  • To collect stones to build there huts
  • To use the better soil to grow crops.
  • There lands were often flooded
  • The land was warmer
  • To have gold
  • The rivers gave easy routes in land.
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THEIR LIFE STYLE

  • They lived in britian
  • They didn't travel as much as most cultures did.
  • They wore a robe around there waist
  • When the Huns were not fighting they would play board games like chess.

ABOUT ALFRED

  • He was born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849 and died in 899
  • Alfred was the 5th son of Aethelwulf
  • At There fathers behest and by mutual agreement, Alfred and his brothers succeeded to the kingship in turns rather then putting the kingdom in danger by passing it on to under age children.

ABOUT LEIF ERIKSSON

  • He was born on 970 in Iceland
  • He died on 1020 in Greenland
  • He was Christianity.
  • He had two children there names were Thorgils and Thorkell
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