The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . FRANKS CROSSING THE RHINE by the Britons and Gaels, Celtic peoples, wasoverrun and conquered in part about 450 the Saxons and Angles, Germanic tribes,after whom part of the island was called Angle-land. (The men from the south of England areof the same blood as the Saxons in the Germanarmy, against whom they had to fight in thegreat war.) Then came Danes, who partially 42 The Story of TheNormans conquered the Angles and Saxons, and afterthem, m 1066 , the country was againconquered by the Normans, descendants of someNorse
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . FRANKS CROSSING THE RHINE by the Britons and Gaels, Celtic peoples, wasoverrun and conquered in part about 450 the Saxons and Angles, Germanic tribes,after whom part of the island was called Angle-land. (The men from the south of England areof the same blood as the Saxons in the Germanarmy, against whom they had to fight in thegreat war.) Then came Danes, who partially 42 The Story of TheNormans conquered the Angles and Saxons, and afterthem, m 1066 , the country was againconquered by the Normans, descendants of someNorsemen, who, one hundred and fifty yearsbefore, had come down from Norway and con-quered a large territory in the northwesternpart of France. In some cases, the conquered tribes moved 4iip- - ^;-,^s^. MEN OF NORMANDY LANDING IN ENGLAND on to other lands, leaving their former homesto their conquerors. In this way the Britonsand Gaels gave up the greater part of their landto the Angles and Saxons and withdrew tothe hills and mountains of Wales, Cornwall,and northern Scotland. In other cases, the con-quered people and their conquerors inhabited thesame lands side by side, as the Normans settleddown in England among the Anglo-Saxons. The Map of Europe 43 In the early days of savagery, one tribe wouldfrequently make a raid upon another neighbor- . .ing tribe arid bring home with it some cap- of slaverytives who became slaves, working without payfor their conquerors and possessing no morerights than beasts of burden. (This customexists today in the interior of Africa, and wasresponsible for the infamous African slave captives were sold to white tradersthrough the greed of their captors, who forgotthat their own relatives and friends might becarried off and sold across the sea
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