Anglo-Saxon Colonization Of Britain And America: Anglo-Saxon Hegemony? What's Next?

By Terry Nettle

Anglo-Saxon Colonization Of Britain And America: Anglo-Saxon Hegemony? What's Next?

Before Britain ruled the waves and colonized much of the world, the Anglo-Saxons colonized Britain.

Britain then went on to colonize Australia, New Zealand, India, and much of Africa.

A major British colonization was north America and it spawned the greatest superpower the world has ever seen, USA.

How did all this happen?

How did Anglo-Saxons become the global hegemon?

What's going to happen next?

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terry Nettle
• Release date: Dec 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223664086

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1. Foreword

Anglo-Saxon Colonization Of Britain And America: Anglo-Saxon Hegemony? What's Next?

Before Britain ruled the waves and colonized much of the world, the Anglo-Saxons colonized Britain.

Britain then went on to colonize Australia, New Zealand, India, and much of Africa.

A major British colonization was north America and it spawned the greatest superpower the world has ever seen, USA.

How did all this happen?

How did Anglo-Saxons become the global hegemon?

2. Germanic Tribes

The story of the global conquest of Anglo-Saxons started with the Germanic tribes.

The Germanic tribes descended from the people of the Nordic Bronze Age, who were a mix of Indo-European Steppe Herders, early European Farmers, and Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers.

They were also the ancestors of the barbarians such as the Indo-European Goths, Vandals and Alans, who later invaded and finally toppled the Roman empire.

They also gave rise to other major Germanic peoples in Europe, including the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks, the Vikings and the Normans.

3. Anglo-Saxons

Anglo-Saxons originated in Angles of present-day Denmark/Germany and lower Saxony in present-day Germany.

The Germanic Angles were from Angles north of today's Denmark and Germany.

The Saxons were a Germanic people of the region north of the Elbe River, stretching from Holstein (in modern-day Germany) to the North Sea. The region they came from was referred to as Saxony, and their name is thought to derive from a type of knife they commonly used, known as a seax.

The name 'Anglo-Saxon' comes from the fusion of the names of two of these peoples. They were the people who colonized England from 400AD.

According to Bede, an early British historian, the Angles settled in East Anglia, the Saxons in southern England, and the Jutes in Kent and the Isle of Wight.

4. Franks

Franks were also west Germanic. They were the people who effectively succeeded the Roman empire in