Roman Britain

1. Roman Britain

2. Roman Empire in the middle of the 3d century

3. The Map of Roman Britain, c. 300 AD

4. Roads were a fundament of Roman empire

5. Roman Londinium

6. An Ancient Roman Villa

7. Medical instruments from Herculanum

8. Well-trained Roman army provided extension of the Empire

9. Roman Military Techniques

Using a catapult
A scorpio

10. Hadrian’s Wall, the Northern Border of the Roman Empire

11.

12. Hadrian’s Wall today

13. Post-Roman Britain

14. Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain

15.

• The Saxons - NorthWest Germany.
• The Angles - Angeln
in South-West
Denmark.
• Jutes -Jutland in
Central Denmark.

16. Great Britain in 400 - 600

17. Great Britain and Ireland c. 700

18. Political and administrative institutions

1.
The king (bretwalda)
2.
king’s council (Witan) - chose a king from the late king’s family
(until 11th century)
Anglo-Saxon king with
his witan

19.

Anglo-Saxons,
5th-10th centuries

20.

Futharc script

21.

Early Celtic Christian Monastery in Ireland.
Glendalough. 6th – 10th centuries

22.

Celtic Crosses

23. Iona Abbey, founded by St. Columba in 563

24. Christianization of Anglo-Saxons

Christianization of AngloSaxons
St. Augustine preaching before king
Ethelbert of Kent