Page 11 - SYTYGIB Prehistoric Times

2,800 – 1,500 years ago
Also known as the Iron Age
Guess what metal started to become the new fave? Tools and other objects were now made from iron, though bronze was still used as well. People began to live in tribes, and the Celts were the main culture in parts of Europe and Britain. The Roman Empire became more powerful as it spread across Europe towards Britain. While some people wouldn’t be affected by the Romans moving in, life was about to change BiG StYlE for others!
2,000 years ago
Roman Britain
In AD 43, England and Wales became part
of the Roman Empire as the province of Britannia. Written history properly began, and the prehistoric age came to an end. Never mind, it was around for over a million years, so it wasn’t exactly a flash in the pan.
Do you ever wish . . . there was a REALLY chilly winter so you could enjoy some hardcore skating and sliding?
You’d have had no problem back in the Stone Age
as there were several periods of dEeP fReEZE!
While early humans probably rocked up in Britain a million years ago, they didn’t stay put. Ice Ages meant people had to leave to find warmer places. They still had to adapt to cold temperatures, though, and coped by building shelters and learning how to hunt animals such as mammoths and woolly rhinos.
One country that was hit hard by the Ice Ages was Scotland. Much of it was covered by a thick layer of ice, with only the tallest mountain peaks poking through. With so much water stored as ice on the land and across
large areas of the oceans, sea levels were much lower, so countries were much bigger – that meant the seaside was further away if you fancied a spot of sandcastle building.
But what makes Ice Ages happen? A Serbian scientist called Milutin Milankovitch came up with a theory that they are caused by a combination of changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the way the earth is tilted and ‘wobbles’. So if you feel the earth start to get a bit wobbly, best look for your hat and scarf!
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What is prehistory and the deep past?