History of Ancient England (40,000 BC - 410 AD)

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♦The history of Ancient England (40,000 BC - 410 AD) is a remarkable journey. From its earliest settlers to the rise of Celtic societies and then the powerful Roman conquest.
The first humans crossed Doggerland into prehistoric Britain , leaving behind artifacts and landmarks like Stonehenge. The ancient England economy thrived on trade, with tin and wool connecting the territory of today's England to markets in as far as Egypt or Greece.
The Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD introduced advanced cities , roads , and governance, shaping the island for centuries. As Rome collapsed, England was left vulnerable to invasions, setting the stage for a new era . More episodes are coming!

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Prehistoric Britain (Routledge World Archaeology) 2nd Edition by Timothy Darvill

The Small Towns of Roman Britain

#History #Documentary
00:00 Introduction
00:35 The First 'English'
02:33 Stonehenge
04:10 Bronze Age Britain
06:28 Celtic Society
09:01 The Arrival of Rome
11:35 Boudicca's Rebellion
14:10 Roman Britain
18:58 The Departure of Rome

[alanelesstravelled]

I was thinking about doing a drinking game. Take a shot every time England is said instead of Britain. Less than 1 minute into the video I realised that this was going to be a bad idea.

[tommy-erhh]

some additional info:
c. 70, 000 BC red dwarf Scholz’s star system (with a brown dwarf) moves through the Oort cloud of our solar system ~0.6 light year from Sun. Also Toba, the Indonesian super volcano, explodes which changed weather for a while - which killed a large portion of humans.
c.40, 000 BC Laschamps Excursion/Adams/geomagnetic event – the earth magnetic field weakened and temporarily flipped, causing much additional radiation from sun, climate change, and possibly some extinctions. It took about 250 years to flip and lasted 440 years reversed.
c. 30, 000 BC last? Neanderthal dies (oversexed Europeans did interbreed), end of warm period so Glaciers return, and Oceans shrink back.
c. 20, 000 BC Sun enters an emission nebula, a remnant leftover from sun/planet creation far away, around 20, 000 AD we will leave it. Since we are inside of it, it is hard to see the nebula. It has not much affect on Earth.
c. 18, 000 BC recent Glacial Maximum. England sinks a bit under the weight of the ice. Doggerland uncovered from the North Sea as waters shrink.
c. 12, 000 BC Older Dryas - chilly weather world wide event caused droughts & turned European forests into tundra. Several possible causes, including: c. 12, 500 BC Glacial lake Bonneville breaks ice dam in north America, flooding creates the Snake river basin.
c. 12, 500 BC Due to variation in Earth’s orbit & axis, the African Humid Period starts, changing into green Sahara and green Arabia until 5, 000 – 4, 000 BC.
12, 300 BC the upper atmosphere is bombarded by an unusually strong radiative event that causes a spike in the carbon 14 and  beryllium isotope production, cause is uncertain but it is outside solar system.

c. 11, 000 BC beginning of recent Glacial retreat period & Neolithic period begins with farming, herding. Humans re-settle Scandinavia, Great Britain, north east Russia & by 6000 BC Ireland as the ice retreats.
c. 10, 000 BC Younger Dryas - chilly weather world wide event froze Europe & caused droughts (possibly caused by volcanism, or by the melting ice dam flood of vast glacial lake Agassiz/Ojibwa in N. America through the Mackenzie river system that disrupted the Gulf Steam.) Also last European saber tooth tiger & woolly rhino die. Genetic mutation in Ukraine, first time humans are not brown eyed – blue, green, gray, hazel, etc.
Also Earth begins it’s precession (wobble) from the north hemisphere facing closest to the sun, to the south as part of the 20, 000 yr Milankovitch cycle; which will melt the glacial ice and dry up Sahara. First effect of melting is the separation of Japan from Korea as oceans rise.
c. 10, 000 BC Tell Qaramel (Syria) town with 5 tower like buildings. Also est. 1-2 million people on earth!
c. 10, 000?? BC Tunguska like meteor hits Atacama desert in Chile (then forested).
c.10, 000 BC short-faced bear goes extinct in America. Ocean is much lower - Great Britain and Ireland attached to Europe plus (North Sea)/Doggerland above water, Baltic & Black seas were brackish lakes, Adriatic and Persian Gulf were ½ land, Melting glaciers are still in Scandinavia, part of Scotland, central Ireland, and Russia. Egyptian coast was further out to sea. Much of Indonesia was dry land connected to Asia, Ceylon/Sri Lanka was connect to India. Sahara and Arabia are green savanna with rivers and lakes.
c. 9, 700 BC A meteor hits and destroyed Tell Abu Hureyra (Syria) a settlement where farming may also have begun.
c. 8500 BC World temperatures rise to near modern levels, slowly oceans rise, glaciers retreat more. The freshwater Ancylus Lake (forerunner of Baltic) connects to North Sea. Forests creep up into N Europe & Russia previously tundra areas, reducing population there used to tundra.
7176 BC A massive solar coronal ejection hits earth that causes a spike in the carbon 14 and  beryllium isotope production.
c. 7100 BC Last saber tooth cat goes extinct in Argentina.
c. 6500 BC American Indians around lake Superior start using raw copper.
6, 200 BC - 8.2 kiloyear Bond event Atlantic cooling drought world wide (again possibly caused by the melting ice dam flood of vast glacial lake Objiway in N. America through St. Lawrence that disrupted the Gulf Steam); also last of Doggerland (now under north sea) submerged possibly due to Storegga Slide tsunami off Norway.
c. 6000 BC Humans settled Ireland. English channel is formed as glaciers retreat, and also Irish Sea floods with rising oceans, making Ireland separate from England; Australia separates from New Guinea; also last equid (little horse) dies in Americas. N. Europe and England become densely forested & the Mesolithic (middle stone age) population there halved. First pottery in Middle East; first Ziggurat pyramid built for religious reasons (Iraq) - with stone tools; followed by first known copper smithing in Middle East. 5-10 million earth Pop!
c. 5600 BC Black sea believed connects to the Aegean/Mediterranean sea, early human settlement in the basin area flooded. Also African Humid Period ends, which leads the great rain forest jungle from W Africa to E Africa shrinking into the present Congo basin, & green Sahara/Arabia savanna begins to dry, with many (mega) lakes drying up so it becomes semi desert/desert - due to earth orbit precession. North Sahara dries first, South dries later c.4200BC? Green Arabia also drys and becomes desert about the same time. It takes some time. Meanwhile the Amazon Basin gets more rain and dust nutrients from the drier Sahara clouds which causes the Expansion/spread of the Amazon rain forest.
5410 BC A massive solar coronal ejection hits earth that causes a spike in the carbon 14 and  beryllium isotope production.
c. 5400 BC Sumerian civilization begins in South Iraq. Sumer & Eridu cities founded

[revolutionaryhamburger]

The narrator seems to believe that violence didn’t exist before the British Empire exported it.

[ilokivi]

I can’t be the first to notice that this video throughout its time span at no time deals with either England or the English people.

[Valcone]

Im 18 seconds in and already face palming... England didnt command a third of the world, Britain did.

[GiulioRicciardi]

“40, 000 bc” in title. Starts story at 30, 000 years ago.

[thedogfather]

Don't watch this if you like your history to be factual.

[satyr]

England? You mean 'The British Isles' as they became, or just Britain for its main landmass.

[GuitarandMusicInstitute]

For a start, the thumbnail does not show England but the British and Irish isles connected, however, the part of the uk that is the country of Scotland comes from an entirely different land mass which collided with the European land mass in the distant past.

[alanparker]

Over 50% of the world’s borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. It’s wild how the Anglo-French rivalry shaped the whole world

[blahblah]

I think you'll find violence already existed in the other parts the world. Britain didn't export it

[artcollins]

References to "England" or "English" people/things is entirely inappropriate here. There were no English, and thus no England, until the Angles and Saxons showed up in the mid-5th Century -- just as this video ends. "Britannia, " "Britain, " and "British" are much better references.

[SpiritmanProductions]

I almost stopped watching at: _Waves_ of settlers continued to _trickle_ in
I stopped watching at: At _different times simultaneously_ 🤦‍♂

[StephMcAlea]

I was going to point out all the inaccuracies in this video but im only at 2:53 and there are way too many to just start listing them.

[alanparker]

France unknowingly shaped its own rivals. The Norman invasion set off the Anglo-French rivalry that reshaped the whole world and led to Britain’s rise as the next superpower through France’s defeats. Later, France helped America break free from Britain, only for the U.S. to rise as a superpower. By selling the big Louisiana territory, France doubled America’s size, accelerating its superpower status. Napoleon also unintentionally shaped Germany and Italy—his occupations unified them, ultimately empowering future rivals, especially Germany, setting off the German-French rivalry that led to both world wars. In trying to weaken its enemies, France empowered them instead

[Phelpy]

Love to see a video on the timeframe, if not a little short of my liking! Feel each "chapter" could have been a video unto itself honestly.
However, Three Minor Notes:
I. When you depict the imprisonment of Caratacus by Cartimandua, you show the event as occurring in lands which would become Wales, While, as your own map depicts prior, the lands of the Brigantes, was locate in the North of modern England. 11:14
II. During the depicting of Gnaeus Julius Agricola's campaign into modern Scotland you only depicted his progress up to 82, in the West of Scotland, and placed the battle of Mons Graupius as such. while during the year 83, when the battle took place, (even if the location is still unknown.) Agricola is claimed to have been, campaigning along the North Eastern Coast of the region. 14:53
III. When you speak of the withdrawal of Rome you depict, specifically Wales as being "Celtic" rather than Romano-Briton, while making the statement that they saw Roman rule as "little more than taxes and roads" which, is unsubstantiated, and on account of the evidence which shows a continuation of Roman laws and customs, even villa living in regions for atleast two centuries. This claim rings hollow. 20:54

[Arran.Pritchard]

Anglo Saxons ( Germanic Sachen ) came after 420 AD when Romans left and with it a void of power, only after this time did the name England begin to exist. Prior to that it was known as Briton occupied by Celtic people.

[William-B]

A common misconception is that iron is superior to bronze because it is stronger or more durable leading to better weapons and tools. In fact, the opposite is true. Iron only replaced bronze because it was more readily available than copper and tin.

[gherkdaddy]

I think it's important to note - Rome Rejected Prasatagus' will because he wanted to make his daughters rulers of the land & this was against Roman custom.

Also saying 'roman men' graped his daughters is only part true. They were roman slaves not soldiers. The legion was in wales & too far away to deal with the unrest so local roman officials foolishly sent slaves instead of soldiers to deal with it.

Boudica then went on to do atrocious things to local roman settlers. Causing way more pain & ultimately suffering the worst defeat any army had ever seen at the hands of the romans. Her rage caused an incredible amount of suffering for others.

Context is important.

[Istariable]

Guys, this is an entertaining video in an entertaining social media, and not some reliable source for academic research.