What is History of England?
== England before the English == {{main|Prehistoric Britain|Roman Britain}} [[File:Stonehenge Closeup.jpg|thumb|[[Stonehenge]], thought to have been built around 2000-2500 BC]] [[Archaeology]] shows that people came to southern England long before the rest of the [[British Isles]], probably because of the friendly [[climate]] between and during the [[ice age]]s of long ago. [[Julius Caesar]] invaded what is now England in 55 and 54 BC, as part of the [[Gallic War]]<nowiki/>s, and was defeated. He wrote in ''De Bello Gallico'' that there were many [[tribe]]s there, very similar to other [[Celt]]ic tribes in [[Europe]]. [[Coin]]s, and later Roman [[historian]]s, have given us the names of some of the rulers of the tribes, and what they did. In 43 AD, [[Claudius]] successfully invaded England with 40,000 soldiers landing at Gaul at Richborough, Kent. For hundreds of years, what is now England was a Roman province, [[Britannia]]. The Romans later gave up on the province and left the Celtic people on their own as the [[Roman Empire]] began to fall apart. The influence of the Romans meant that the territory of England had already experienced unity before the Anglo-Saxons arrived. == Anglo-Saxon England == Analysis of human bodies found at an [[:wikt:ancient|ancient]] [[cemetery]] near [[Abingdon]], England, shows that Saxon [[immigrant]]s and native [[Briton]]s lived side-by-side.<ref>https://library.thehumanjourney.net/144/1/full_research.pdf</ref> The Romano-British population (the Britons) was [[Cultural assimilation|assimilated]]. The settlement (or [[invasion]]) of England is called the Saxon Conquest, or the Anglo-Saxon or English Conquest.[[File:England-878ad.jpg|thumb|England and the Danelaw in 878]] From the 4th century AD, many Britons left to cross the [[English Channel]] from [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]] and southern Britain, and started to settle the western part of [[Gaul]] ([[Armorica]]), where they started a new nation: [[Brittany]]. The Britons gave their new country its name and the [[Breton language