Who are the ancestors of the British?

At present, most English people (including Welsh people) are descended from Anglo-Saxons, while the ancestors of Scotland and Northern Ireland are Celts.

In 843 AD, a king of Scotland completed the great cause of unifying all the tribes in Scotland and established a real kingdom of Scotland. At that time, the Anglo-Saxons were still in the south of Britain.

Anglo-Saxon is a branch of ancient Germanic tribes, which originally lived in Northern Europe, jutland, Danish Islands and the northwest coast of Germany. From the 5th century to the 6th century, people from the Anglo-Saxon tribes migrated southward to the North Sea and immigrated to the island of Great Britain. It was only in the following three or four hundred years that the two tribes merged into Anglo-Saxons.

Through conquest and assimilation, the Anglo-Saxons and the "aborigines" (Celts) of Great Britain, together with the "Danes" and "Normans" who immigrated later, formed the modern English (including Scots) after a long period of integration.

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At the beginning of the 5th century, Germanic tribes such as Anglo-Saxons living near the mouth of the Elbe River in Germany, Jutes in southern Denmark and the lower reaches of the Rhine River conquered Britain. Angels call Britain "Angleland" (the origin of English name), which means the land of the Angles. On the other hand, Old English inherited their language.

By the beginning of the 7th century, the invaders had successively established seven great powers: this period was called the "Seven-Nation Era". When the Anglo-Saxons invaded, it was a clan and tribal organization. During the invasion, the original clan organization collapsed. With the development of productive forces, land has gradually become private property, and nobles, big landlords, dependent farmers and slaves have emerged.

Village community has become a form of transition from clan commune land ownership to feudal land ownership, which is generally considered to be the beginning of feudal process in British society. At the end of the 6th century, Christianity was introduced to Britain. To this day, Americans still call the British and the British Anglo-Saxons.

Britain is an island country in western Europe, and it is a federal island country composed of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the northeast of Ireland.

Britain is surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, celtic sea, the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. East of the North Sea, facing Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway; Ireland is adjacent to the west, and the United States and Canada are facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean. North across the Atlantic to Iceland; France lies 33 kilometers south of the English Channel.

The land area is 244 1 000 square kilometers (including inland waters). In which England 130400 square kilometers, Scotland 78800 square kilometers, Wales 20800 square kilometers, Northern Ireland 14 1000 square kilometers.

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