1. Anglo-Saxon England

2. Anglo-Saxons Sweep Ashore Unifying Forces:
Alfred the Great and Christianity

3. Things to think about… What three groups invaded?
What group of people did they drive out?
What two factors helped unify the Anglo-Saxons?

4. Anglo-Saxons Sweep Ashore
Three groups of invaders:
Angles and Saxons from Germany
Jutes from Denmark
They all crossed the North Sea to reach Britain.

5. Anglo-Saxons Sweep Ashore
In the middle of the 5th century the three groups of invaders drove out the Celts, also known as the Britons.
The Celts retreated west to Wales
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes settled the greater part of Britain.

6. Land became known as Engla land or England, from the Angles.
Anglo-Saxon England
The language of the Anglo-Saxons eventually became the dominant language.
English
Land became known as Engla land or England, from the Angles.

7. Anglo-Saxon England was not politically unified at first:
The country was divided into several independent territories and they all had their own rulers.

8. Unifying Forces: Alfred the Great
King Alfred of Wessex, also known as Alfred the Great led a resistance against the Danes from and unified the Anglo-Saxons into a nation.
The Danes were one of the Viking peoples who crossed the North Sea and destroyed everything in their path.
Battles with the Danes continued in the 8th and 9th centuries
They eventually settled some parts of northeast and central England.

9. Unifying Forces: Christianity
Christianity was also a big part in unifying the Anglo- Saxon England.
Continental and Irish missionaries converted kings
Kings converted subjects
Converting to Christianity allowed the people to have a common faith and system of morality.
It also provided a link between England and Europe.

10. Under Christianity and King Alfred the Anglo-Saxon people worked together to protect their people, their church, and their culture from the plunders of the Danes.
The battle between the Danes and the Anglo-Saxons continued until they were both defeated in 1066 by an invading force of Normans from northwestern France.

11. What three groups invaded?
What group did they drive out?
What two factors helped unify the Anglo-Saxons?

12. What three groups invaded?
Jutes, Angles, and Saxons
What group did they drive out?
Celts, also known as Britons
What two factors helped unify the Anglo-Saxons?
Christianity and Alfred the Great