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The fact that people use this time period to justify modern day immigration in Britain shows how little they understand that this era must’ve absolutely horrific for the original inhabitants.

Britain didn’t become English! The land who the Anglo Saxons took became England and English. With the Britons going on to found Wales.

The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool, found the English to be of plurality Anglo-Saxon-like ancestry, with heavy native Celtic Briton, and Norman admixture which varies on the location.

The Romano Briton warrior elite were either wiped out or driven west into Cymru and Kernow, north into Cumbria, and south across the sea to Amorica. The towns people merchants and small farmers stayed behind and were assimilated into the Anglo Saxon kingdoms.

Some things not mentioned: - The House of Wessex, aka the Cerdicingas, which means descendants of Cerdic, were, mostly likely, of british origin. Tha name Cerdic is recognized as british, from the brythonic Coroticus, and cognate to a welsh name: Ceredig. So extermination was not the case here, but assimilation between native britons and incoming germanic mercenaries. - The same could be said from Kent, since the kingdom's name is taken from a brythonic one. - Earlier kings of Mercia, like Penda, display very brythonic names, another evidence that the midlands were heavily british and the elite was anglian, and the natives slowly adopted a germanic culture. - Yes, there were some raids, skirmishes, and sieges, but actual invasions began around the year 550 AD.

People forget that King Arthur fought to free the Brittan's of the English.

DNA shows that my ancestors were native Britons: Devonian and Cornish.

My theory is that there was not an eradication of the native Britain's, but the native inhabitants, were out classed by the immigrant invaders, they therefore became subservient and had to take second place to the invaders who just had the edge over them, the natives were assimilated, they weren't anihalated they were just out-classed, and so the new comers achieved dominance in this way. The legacy of the natives, is the soft skills, more compassionate less domineering which moderated the more harsh elements of the Germanic tribes (compare Britain versus Germany today). The Britain's are still with us today mixed in with our German Saxon forbears.

Genetics prove this very wrong. We're very mixed with our invaders and celtic blood.

There's a new theory that suggests their was more of an integration less a conquest. based on DNA and building design

Yo, you forgot to mention how native celts of England began migration to Brittany in France. They were called Bretons and so did their language later.

The animation and the narration is awesome 🔥

For those who don't know, such as the guy making this video. He missed out the beginning of the story , The Celts who were living in Britain when the Roman's invaded, had only been in Britain for 150 years. They came to Britain around 100bc a time known to most historians as "the Belgic migration". The guy ignores that part and talks as if the Celts had been in Britain for 1000s of years. Not mentioning that is like making a history video about the USA and not mentioning the English, the 13 colonies and being ruled by England for most of its history. The Belgic Celts were in Britain 150 years then the Romans conquered and ruled for 400 years.. The British were Romanised Belgic Celts, The Saxons Angles etc, didn't invade and push the Romano British from the east to the west , they remained where they were , the history of the part that became England, is different from town to town region to region There is no single story that happened to everyone. There was no such thing as a British identity , Britain was full of people with regional identities. The Germanic peoples generally speaking came in groups, families and settled on land that belonged to nobody The population of Britain was quite small full of unclaimed land. There was some fighting, but not all between Saxon and Celts, if anything there was more Celts fighting other Celts. The Celts and Saxons mostly lived side by side without any problems, they married and traded until they became one . Just parg of different kingdoms, mercia, wessex, Essex, northumbria etc . Until king Alfred's grandson became ruler of England.. The Normans fkd everything up..

And the assimilation of the British Isles would even continue years later in the Irish people, where currently the majority speaks a dialect of English and a minority speaks Irish Gaelic.

Stop the boats

The Gretzinger et al. Nature paper (2022) actually says this: "We estimate that the ancestry of the present-day English ranges between 25% and 47% England EMA CNE-like [North Sea Germanic, AKA Anglo-Saxon], 11% and 57% England LIA-like [Native Celtic British] and 14% and 43% France IA-like [Pre-Roman Gaulish Celtic]". The first thing to note is that all the estimations have very large ranges, second, the maximum numbers are 47% (less than half) Germanic, 57% native British Celtic (more than half) and 43% Gaulish Celtic (less than half). The take-away message is that, whether native British, or incomer Gaulish, the majority of the ancestry of the present-day English people is pre-Roman Celtic and not Germanic. The Iron Age Gaulish descended incomers were presumably introduced to Britain under Frankish patronage and were also perhaps somewhat Germanised in culture and language. There were also now little-known 'Saxon' settlements of the 5th-6th century on the Channel coast of what is now France, especially in Normandy. These settlements may also have played a part in the export of Gaulish genetics to Britain.

All of this seems so implausible you would almost think that there was a momentary glitch in the matrix and history went a completely different direction.

Make Britain Welsh again.

The modern english was actually formed only after 1066. Up until then the Anglo-saxon language was very much like ither german languages.

The West Saxon dynasty was founded by a man with a native Celtic British name Cerdic (same as the British kings Ceretic of Strathclyde and Ceretic of Elmet). The West Saxon or Gewissae (at the time), Bretwalda (overlord of Britain) Ceawlin also had a Celtic name. The last king of that dynasty to have a Celtic name was Caedwalla (Cadwallon), who died as late as 689. The names of Pybba and his son Penda, kings of Mercia, are also Celtic in origin. St. Chad, a Northumbrian bishop and all three of his brothers had Celtic names, as did the Northumbrian poet Caedmon, the first recorded poet using the English language. Things are never simple. they were far from simple between 450 and 700 AD.

Isn't the average English person like 60% Celtic? More likely that they just assimilated.

Germanic tribes conquered parts of what is now England and then brought their family’s, they then became the ruling cast and mixed with the Celtic locals, there was conflict between the Germanic invaders and Celts which forced a large number of Celts to move further west to wales, but there was no extermination. Largely, Celts and Saxons mixed, with there being larger amounts of Germanic population in eastern England and larger amounts of Celts in the west. They essentially became one people over the decades and centuries. The later Viking and Norman admixture also added to the populations genetics, but essentially they’re a Germanic/Celtic people made up of north Western Europeans. This isn’t going to be the case for long though, native British are projected to be 50% of the population before the end of this century due to mass migrations from the third world.

Pretty sure Bede stated that Arthur was king of Glamorgan and Gwent in his Brut of England. This definitely backs up the Harlean genealogies!

What happened to Englands native Celtic population? just go to England as you'll see there still there in their millions.

Hi! Came here from historymarche. Great video! I was wondering how you animate your maps?

It wasn’t the least romanized at all. Roman Britain was as much Roman as Gaul or Hispania. It was under Roman control for over 300 years that’s longer than the US has been a country. Dr. Wyman’s explanation makes more sense to me than this.

How Britain became Anglo-Saxon. It became English only in 1066

The idea that the withdrawal of the Roman empire from Britain was the first genocide kinda misses what happened when the Bell Beaker people showed up (checks notes) 30 centuries prior.

I have to say this video was great, one of the best ive seen, so well explained and addressing so many questions and key points... Clearly demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the subject.

When the Romans left in the early 5th century the Picts (todays Scots) attacked Hadrian's Wall and raided all the way down to Kent, thats why the ancient Britain's asked for the Saxons to come and help, btw the Romans never conqured today's Scotland they invaded but they got kicked out.

The Western Roman Empire crumbled because all their elite Warriors were lost in the civil War under Magnus Maximus and his fight to reclaim his birthright. This opened up not only Gaul to become France under the Franks but The Britons to lose What would become England and Scotland to the Saxons and Scoti. The Britons are fighting Irish, Scoti, Saxons, Mercians, Picts. It’s amazing they are even still here!!!! And it’s Amazing that Wales exists at all.

Welcome back general

Nowadays it's turning Muslim

Much of the story of how English culture replaced British culture is now well-known. Genetic and archaological evidence mixed with the written records has pretty much established the story. Essentially, its a tale of the incomplete dominance of an English culture over a British culture which it slowly replaces. Some early English kings and kingdoms have British names. What does cultural difference even mean if you are an illiterate farmer? Note that the pagan English religion was worldly (you can read about Woden/Odin the Havamal) and that Christianity explicity rejects 'worldliness'. England represents the victory of the worldly over the spiritual, hence our unpopularity. The world will not go away, and so neither will we.

Amazing! Loved that you covered the rising of the Germanic Rexs and their level of Roman assimilation by the turn of the 500s. No one covers it! Please do Romano-Brittonic Wales! Even Brittany and Cornwall would be great too

So even their native land isn't their native land

The way that I learned was that a relatively small number of Anglo, Saxon, and Jutish males invaded the island with even fewer of their women. These men then killed the Brtionic males and took the women as wives. This led to very rapid assimilation and rapid population growth of the Germanic invaders. This is seen by the absence of Celtic Y chromosomes in Englishmen. Also - to suggest that this is the first time ethnic cleansing has happened is blatantly false. For example, all one must do is look to the expansion of Asians in Asia which took place several thousand years before the fall of Rome. The reason why East Asians look so similar is that rice farmers exploded out of central China and wiped out other peoples. The Ainu once inhabited all of Japan and Korea but are limited to only Northern Japan and the Kuril Islands today. The Negretos of Malaysia and Indonesia once inhabited the whole region but the rice farmers drove them deep into the jungles. Other examples include Bantus in Africa, Indo-Aryans in India, Turks in Centeal Asia, or even when the Celts invaded northern Italy while Rome was a small city state. The examples are endless. What happened in Britain was not unique but unfortunately rather common in the historical record. With that said, excellent video. You gained a subscriber.

When the Romans left today's England the Picts attacked Hadrian's Wall and raided down to today's Kent! That's why the Britains asked the Anglo and Saxons to help them out, and the Anglo-Saxons did not even fight the Picts they just took over today's England.Stilicho's Pictish War is a name given to a war between the forces of the Western Roman Empire led by Stilicho and the Picts in Britain around 398 AD.

Holy shit You greatly improved, neat.

No England became England or an extended Germany. Wales is a Celtic land the original Brits

anyone knows the name of the song that plays at 10:24? I've heard it on so many youtube videos, but never seem to find it. ://

Well the Anglo Saxons weren't all that opposed to the local culture. These Saxons themselves had weapons and armor that resembled the Late Roman Germanic auxiliaries. By the time of the Viking era of the late 8th century AD, the Anglo Saxons already were Christianized via the Roman rite, they had no knowledge of their Germanic past as they were now fully assimilated into continental culture, the army of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms were pretty much an evolution from the late Roman styled infantry based system of shield wall, spears and the spatha long sword. They were termed fyrdmen according to Saxon methods of levying troops, but all in all they were already very much Romanized despite centuries of coming to blows with the Romano Brits. Ultimately there was assimilation and a cultural melting pot ensued

Linguists still can't decide if the name Cerdic is Germanic or "Celtic" in origin. If Germanic then it is pronounced "Cher-dich". If "Celtic" it is just as, if not more likely, a continental "Celtic" name (rather than Brythonic) which would be consistent with the ASC stating he came over with ships to Britain. Of course, he could have been a Saxon foederati descendant commanding Brythons (and Saxons) and who bestowed this Cerdic title onto him. First names themselves do not necessarily denote one's heritage. Clearly he was Anglo-Saxon culturally, linguistically and religiously. As for the "Wal/Wahl" element in names, they're not necessarily connected to "Wælisc" (Welsh). The Queen of Heorot, Wealhtheow, for example - the first part of her name is linked to magic/wand/spells and this is probably the root of many names in the Wessex genealogy.

What a polished video 👍

They're now called *Welsh* .

It is interesting That Wales is the only truely bilingual country in the British Isles. They have held on to the language that is very similar to that being used over the whole of the islands two thousand years ago. Finally this nonsense confuses England and Britain throughout this download.

Thank you for what you do!

Slavs weren't in Germania Magna in 400AC as the maps suggests tho, it was all German territory, Slavs weren't a big thing in Eastern Europe until after the 7th century

By saying Briton you are saying England, Wales and Scotland but Scotland and Wales aren't English. Stop making Britain English when it's not just English.

The celts actually another earlier folk...

the biggest change in Britain, in terms of genetics, took place during the bronze age around 2500 BC, when the Neolithic people of Britain, who built the Stonehenge, almost disappeared (about 90%), most likely due to devastating first-ever wave of plague. They were replaced by bell-beaker Indo-Europeans, who are ancestors of most modern Britons. Subsequent migrations (the Celts, the Anglo-saxons, Vikings, Normans) added to the mix, but didn't dramatically change it, even though language shifts took place. Paradoxically, the Celtic impact appears very small from a genetic perspective, as the Celtic areas of Britain all have distinctly un-Celtic y-chromosome markers. The Celtic languages most likely spread by local pre-Celtic people adopting the language&customs of a small group of Celtic-speaking elite, who brought iron age technology to Britain with them, around 1000BC.

Interesting n informative video

Good video.

No mention of Britons having a lesser wergild in Wessex than an English man, that's a sort of discrimination which would encourage Britons to become 'Englisc' so to speak.

the Britons were not exterminated, modern day English people have dna made up of a combination of anglo-saxon and romano celtic. your video is based on an old story told by a monk who had never left his monastery, he was also was not alive at the time of the supposed invasion.

How much is wrong with the dramatisation on this title. First of all Britain was never English. Now what...

When you look at what the English have later done to the world, I think it's safe to say that the anglo Saxon invasion was the single worst thing to have happened in history

Great video Cymru is strong spirited.

According to genetic tests, the population of Britain is descended primarily from hunter-gatherers migrated from Continental Europe during the Mesolithic Period. Then from 1300BCE to 800BCE, Celtic peoples migrated to Britain and assimilated the indigenous populations. When the Romans arrived, Celts that embraced Roman culture became the Romano-British where they spoke local variants of Latin and intermarried with settlers from the Roman Empire. Rural communities on the other hand were culturally predominantly Celtic. Scholars are still debating whether there is really a Germanic invasion or peaceful migration. The first Germanic peoples to Britain were auxiliaries serving in the Roman army. The Celts and Romano-British have the choice of either accepting the new Germanic overlords or flee. Many chose to stay behind while the rest fled to present day Wales, Cornwall, parts of what is now southern Scotland and Northwest England formerly known as Strathclyde, Britanny in modern France and Britonia on the northern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The population of England is descended primarily from Celts and Romano-British that become assimilated into Germanic Anglo-Saxon population.

Clovis converted to catholicism, not christianity per se. The difference between catholicism and Proto-Protestanism/Apostolic Christianity is almost as great as the latter is from paganism. Catholicism is merely paganism baptized. The fundamental difference between the two systems is that catholicism objective is world domination via capturing the political sphere. Biblical Christianity looks to secure citizenship in a heavenly kingdom not of this world. This is one reason why Christ stood aloof from political political uprisings against the oppressive Romans.

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9:00 Well, it did happen in North Africa as well? If we broaden the scope, it happened all over the eastern empire wherever Slavs and Arabs appeared

If he thinks 5th Century Britain might represent the first case of ethnic genocide, he needs to read a lot more history and archaeology!

Lore of The Extermination of England's Natives. How Britain Became English momentum 100

The editing is fire

Anglo pride worldwide!!!

History repeats.

Great video. The English are indeed Anglo-Saxon. Byrne et. al. (2018), found that modern English people are 2/3+ Anglo-Saxon. Gretzinger et. al. (2022), in the largest study of its kind, found that 76%+ of Britain's post-roman population was replaced by Anglo-Saxons. So 76%+ of people in Anglo-Saxon England were Anglo-Saxon genetically. Those who were not - completely abandoned "Brythonic" ways and became Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Saxon/Germanic Heathendom is the true path of the English folk.

This is nonsense... Pytheas in 300BC wrote of two distinct peoples in the island of Alba one resembled the people of Iberia the other similar to folk around the mouths of the Rhine estuary . Julius Caesar also remarked on this in 54BC many of his troops stayed and formed the basis of the Iceni Brigantes and Belgae who were close kin of germanic kin across the channel and North Sea . The Claudian army of AD43 was largely recruited from among Rhineland tribes in Roman Germanic provinces. The Word Angle may well derive from the word Angarion the name given to the postal and haulage systems of the Roman Empire including Britain.

English people are still majority Celtic by blood, stop spreading non-sense about an "extermination".

I went to the North of England once.

The natives where NEVER exterminated !

Pretty sure scotland never became english lol

Archaeology shows almost no evidence for an AngloSaxon invasion and conquest.. Where are burned villages, the skeletons with battle wounds, the remains of battle fields etc?

Never were irish or scots celts They were called picts The celts lived with the romans

Saxons were invited to protect people in Britain after rome left and Britain was being attacked by tribes! Saxons higherd to protect people! But in the end they decided to take over.

The Kentish Law Code of Ine of the 7th century prescribes differing wergilds for English (Jutes) & Britons. Although this indicates discrimination against them, it recognises they were still present.

Total fiction

Why is Ireland included in these graphics?

Sources from the 1950s are way out of date . Another is titled , "why didn't the Anglo Saxons become more British"! Britain is not a country, its a collective of Wales Scotland England. The Roman's named the island Brittania, it was a mixture of people & cultures before during and after the Roman's left. Asking why the Saxons didn't become more British is like asking didn't the Brazilians become more like the north Americans. Its an impossible question to answer. First you have to explain what "being British " means. Another impossible question.. It implies Anglo Saxons were all the same , which they were not. The other problem is the lack of up to date information. Archaeology has proven the Saxon, Angles, Jutes ,did not invade and push the Celtic blood natives from east to west. The idea of the Germanic peoples looking down at the native 'Romano British ' considering them as inferior, is as ridiculous as south Africans considering the USA as inferior. When the USA have invented many things , including thr technology that sent men to the moon and back While African's rely of the west for simple things such as clean water .. Britain after 400 years of Roman infrastructure, buildings, other technology, was light years ahead of the Germanic peoples, them not being part of the Roman empire meant they were way behind in the technology of Rome, which was also in Britain. They would've seen solid stone bridges, houses with heated floors , plumbing anda filtering system way advanced of anything they had or could build, cambered mettaled roads , instead of the mud tracks they left behind Ovef time the roads , the plumbing the buildings in Britain collapsed because the Germanic peoples didn't have the skills or craftsmanship to understand to build or repair them. The reverted to wooden huts , and larger halls for the wealthy . Carrying water in buckets from rivers to homes , because they had no plumbers , etc etc etc . Britain was full of stone road markers , giving names of towns and distances, buildings , mausoleums with inscriptions, names, achievements , basically writing, which they never had. So how would a backward ( in technology) people look down on those far advanced in everything, quality of clothing, jewellery, basically everything, compared to what they new and left behind. Even Saxon coinage was crude and basic, compared to skilled advanced lettering and imagery, faces that actually resembled the emperor, God's and detailed engravings compared to Saxon sceats that were childlike and impossible to understand, like a horse by picasso next to a Stubbs's , one a stylised unrecognisable 'mess' the other unmistakable and perfectly detailed. Theres a good reason the first 2 century's of Saxon Britain are known as the dark ages. A huge step backwards in everything from technology to medicine compared to 400 years of Roman Britain and the people who adopted the ways of the east. Modern archaeologists and historians have known and proven the old Victorian & mid 50s beliefs of the Saxons pushing the locals from east to west is complete nonsense. Verulamium is just one great example, iron age catuvellauni adopting Roman ways learning new skills over the 400 years , living inside the solid walled city, and continuing to live work inside the walls long after the Saxons came and verulamium became part of mercia, trading with their new neighbours and not fighting each other. Evidence of the romano British, jewellery from the east ,ceramics, etc are found in the nearby Saxon settlement, and vice versa inside the old Roman/ Celtic settlement. Actual evidence they lived peacefully alongside each other. Just like many other local people from eastern Britain (what became sough east England)

14:46 And in the north ,wherre the brittons beat the anglos every time ,because the invasion the welsh and scotish became two separate but ridiculously similar languages ,the kings of scotland claimed to be the legitimate ruler of the anglo-saxon kingdoms,as descendens of king Artur .

The thing with the demilitarization of Italy, Hispania and Gaul doesn't fly.

The 'Anglosaxon' invasion is just hypothesis based on the religious writings of Bede. But there is no evidence to back it up. In fact modern genetics cast doubt on it and a new hypothesis is forming.

So Anglos are experts of replacing native peoples and their modern population complains about getting replaced themselves lol

This seems a bit clickbaity. The normans significantly overplayed the celt vs angle history of britain for their DEI(divide et impera) policy. They pushed the arthur narrative for instance which is probably a king from brittany. We can see in the DNA of English people today that the Y chromosomes of celts and angles went both ways into both populations. You have english speaking celts and celtic speaking angles. We also know of many battles where it was celt & angle vs celt and angle during the heptarchy. gross oversimplication. Go and read Bede.

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Those natives were there the same amount of time as the Anglo Saxons have been there as of today.

I think there may be some confusion here, as the Norman'French'Norse aristocracy that conquered England, Wales & Scotland/Ireland, .. & eventually imposed the modern 'English language on everyone, ..

Our Anglo saxon ancestors deal with them that what happen to them

The Bryrhonic inhabitants of our Isles were definitely not exterminated as the title of this video states. Recorded is the Celtic Fringe (West Coast) And of course we have the Principality of Wales. The scribblings of several monks/scholars are not to be taken as factual evidence for genocide of the Insurer Celts. Brittany in Northern France is named so for an obvious reason. Wales we know was the name given to the Britons by Germanic peoples who relentlessly pushed them Westwards to the Atlantic coast and even beyond. From the kingdom of Strathclyde to Lands End was the domain of the Romano-Britons. There were even small isolated Proto-Romano states within what would become England. A little north of my village there is such a place that to this day retains it's historic name. 'Elmut' A later Anglo-Saxon town was settled within the demi-kingdom, so we have 'Sherburn-in-Elmut' History tells us that the Christian Kingdom of Elmut was formed c440AD by King Mascuid The Lame and wasn't conquered until 617AD by the Norhumbrians where the last King of Elmut, King Ceretic fell in battle.

Pope seen Angel saxons in slave market in Rome and said they look like Angels and decided to convert all of Britain to Christian ✝️ English means Angel.

The narrators name is chuck isn’t it? GREAT VID

The original native English exterminated by the anglo saxon invaders was just a training for the next step in America's 13 colonies and after the rest of the current US territories.

The saxons are french. The vikings didnt sail until 800 this era The wants that went were the frigians Living with the romans Old english

The animations are too busy. Hard to concentrate.

There was no 'extermination'. Domination doesn't equal 'extermination'. The inhabitants of the British isles are descendants of Celts mixed with Roman, Norse and German invaders. The language you speak doesn't decide your ancestral background because politically dominant linguistic minorities have often imposed their language on a subjugated majority. The Turkish-speaking population of Anatolia are for the most part the descendants of previously Greek-speaking populations and not Central Asian invaders. The English-speaking population of Utah are for the most part descendants of recent German immigrants.

The least Roman Province? What a joke! 5 minutes visiting England and all I see is Rome, everywhere! Every detail of England is Roman! From architectural government buildings, home architecture, interior design, materials used, the red bricks they like to claim is "English" is Roman. Political systems, art, British Empire, American disguised Empire, etc, etc. The only thing Germanic I can see in England is the genetic traits of part of the population and the bad cuisine. Which is normal, giving the fact that the barbarians didn't have sophisticated society.

It’s time to give up on animating videos and become a kids animator!

Your animation is so sick