"AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITAIN" CHAPTER.1

[louisiana]

[langtitle=en]"AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BRITAIN" CHAPTER.1[/langtitle]

[lang=en]EARLIEST TIMES

THE FOUNDATION STONES

*the island
*Britain's prehistory
*the Celts
*the Romans
*Roman life

The Island

however complicated the modern industrial state may be, land climate affect life in every country. they affect social and economic life, population and even politics. Britain is no exception. it has a midler climate than much of the European mainland because it lies in the way of the gulf stream, which bring warm water and winds from the gulf of Mexico. within Britain there are differences of climate between north and south, east and west. the north is on average 5'C cooler than south. annual rainfall in the east is average about 600mm, while in many parts of the west it is more than double that. the country side is varied also. the north and west are mountainous or hilly. much of the south and east is fairly flat, or low-lying. this mean that the south and east on the whole have better agricultural conditions, and it is possible to harvest crops in early august, two months earlier than in the north. so it is not surprising that southeast Britain has always been the most populated part of the island. for this reason it has always had the most political power.

Britain is an island, and Britain history has been closely connected with the sea. until modern times it was as easy to travel across water as it was across land, where roads were frequently unusable. at moments of great danger Britain has been saved from danger by its surrounding seas. Britain's history and its strong national sense have been shsped by the sea.[/lang]

 

[louisiana]

[lang=en]BRITAIN'S PREHISTORY

Britain has not always been an island. it became one only after the end of the last ice age. the temperature rose and the ice melted, flooding the lower-lying land that is now under the north sea and the english channel.

the ice age was not just one long equally cold period. there were warmer times when ice cap retreated, and colder periods when the ice cap reached as far south as the river thames. our first evidence of human life is a few stone tools, dating from one of the warmer periods, about 250,000 bc.
these simple objects show that there were two different kinds of inhabitants. the earlier group made their tools from flakes of flint, similar in kind to stone tools found across the north European plain as Russia. the other group made tools from a central core of flint, probably the earliest method of human tool making, which spread from Africa to Europe. hand axes made in this way have been found widely, as far north as Yorkshire and as far west as wales.

however, the ice advanced again and Britain became hardly habitable until another milder period, probably around 50,000bc. during this time a new type of human being seems to have arrived, who was the ancestor of the modern British. these people looked similar to the modern British, but were probably smaller and had a life span of only about thirty years.

around 10,000bc, as the ice age drew to a close, Britain was peopled by small groups of hunters, gatherers and fishers. few had settled homes, and they seemed to have followed herds of deer which provided them with food and clothing. by about 5000bc Britain had finally become an island, and had also become heavily forested. for the wanderer-hunter culture this was a disaster, for the cold-loving deer and other animals on which they lived largely died out.[/lang]

 

[agen_pale]

non ana... aku usul nih biar mudah dimengerti lagi dan dapat membantu adik-2 memahaminya mohon di setiap posting juga di translate into indonesian ya....

 

[Megha]

Non lousiana, aku tambahkan code language ya, setidaknya bisa membantu temen-temen untuk mengikuti jalannya diskusi