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Answer Sheet
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1 BIRTH OF A LANGUAGE
Events When Details
Language Origins 2,000 years ago The English language was
totally different from now.
Spreading of English 1,000 years ago The English language had
language established its first base camp
Netherlands - Friesland 1500 years ago Modern English Language and
Frisian both languages come
from the same language family,
the Germanic family of
languages.
Roman Invasion More than 500 The Romans invaded the British
years before coasts.
Germanic Invaders Year 491 Germanic invaders laid siege
and slaughtered the Celts who
had taken refuge in Pevensey
Castle.
Germanic Displacement 5th century A Germanic tribe, part of the
family that also contained Jutes,
Angles, and Saxons made sail
to look for a better life.
The monk mission Year 597 The monk and prior Augustine
led a mission from Rome to
Kent.
British Conquest By the end of the Dover and London main
6th century Germanic tribes occupied half
of mainland Britain.
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