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Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England
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     challenging words:    burhs, scribes, original, fictional, literature, military, invaders, version, storyteller, unknown, lasted, title, nevertheless, land, history, beginning
     content words:    Middle Ages, Iron Age, Roman Empire, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, West Saxons, Prince Beowulf, Old English, English Language, Middle English, Modern English

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Anglo-Saxon England
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     England became England, the land of English-speaking people, at the beginning of the Middle Ages. Before that it had been the home of Iron Age tribes known as the Celts, and for a time, part of the Roman Empire.
 
2     Then beginning in the 400's AD, tribes from the North, known as the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, moved in. Some accounts called these people settlers; other accounts called them invaders. Whatever they were called, they came to England to stay.
 
3     We know about the events of that time period from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the only written history surviving from that period. The Chronicle tells of battles and invasions and all types of changes over the years of the early Middle Ages.

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