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Author(s):	Charles River Editors

Date:	2019	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	B08MTX6F2J
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*Includes pictures
*Includes a bibliography for further reading
Over 1,100 years before William the Conqueror became the King of England after the Battle of Hastings, Julius Caesar came, saw, and conquered part of Britannia, setting up a Roman province with a puppet king in 54 BCE. In the new province, the Romans eventually constructed a military outpost overlooking a bridge across the River Thames. The new outpost was named Londinium, and it covered just over two dozen acres. 
By the 2nd century CE, Londinium was a large Roman city, with tens of thousands of inhabitants using villas, palaces, a forum, temples, and baths. The Roman governor ruled from the city in a basilica that served as the seat of government. What was once a 30 acre outpost now spanned 300 acres and was home to nearly 15,000 people, including Roman soldiers, officials and foreign merchants. The Romans also built heavy defenses for the city, constructing several forts and the massive London Wall, parts of which are still scattered across the city today. Ancient Roman remains continue to dot Londons landscape today, reminding everyone that almost a millennium before it became the home of royalty, London was already a center of power. 
Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early 2nd century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. To accomplish this, the wall had to be built from the mouth of the River Tyne  where Newcastle stands today  80 Roman miles (76 miles or 122 kilometers) west to Bowness-on-Solway. The sheer scale of Hadrians Wall still impresses people today, but as the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century, Hadrians Wall was abandoned and Roman control of the area broke down. 
Little is known of this period of British history, but soon the Anglo-Saxons  who had been harassing the Saxon Shore as pirates  showed up and began to settle the land, creating a patchwork of little kingdoms and starting a new era of British history. Several early medieval historians, writing well after the events, said the Anglo-Saxons were invited to Britain to defend the region from the northern tribes and ended up taking over. The Venerable Bede (672 or 673-735) said in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) that in the year 449, The British consulted what was to be done and where they should seek assistance to prevent or repel the cruel and frequent incursions of the northern nations. They all agreed with their king Vortigern to call over to their aid, from the parts beyond the sea, the Saxon nation.  The two first commanders are said to have been Hengist and Horsa.
However they came to control most of England, the Anglo-Saxons became the dominant power in the region for nearly 500 years, and the strength of their cultural influence could be felt even after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings and became the first Norman ruler on the island. The efforts to consolidate his rule in England were complicated from the start, both due to external enemies and those jockeying for his position while he was still alive, but the Normans would manage just barely to cling to power over England, and William remains the last foreign conqueror of the island. 
The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England: The History and Legacy of the Anglo-Saxons at the Start of the Middle Ages examines the events that led to the rise of the Anglo-Saxons, and the massive influence they had on the region. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Anglo-Saxons like never before.

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