History and Culture of English-speaking countries

Geography In the Iron Age, the celts are situated in Iron Age Britain. These celt are the Insular Celts. All Celtic languages extant today belong to the Insular Celtic languages, derived from the Celtic languages spoken in Iron Age Britain and Ireland. They were separated into a Goidelic and a Brythonic branch from an early period. Linguists have been arguing for many years whether a Celtic language came to Britain and Ireland and then split or whether there were two separate "invasions". The older view of prehistorians was that the Celtic influence in the British Isles was the result of successive invasions from the European continent by diverse Celtic-speaking peoples over the course of several centuries, accounting for the P-Celtic vs. Q-Celtic isogloss. This view has been challenged by the hypothesis that the Celtic languages of the British Isles form a phylogenetic Insular Celtic dialect group. In the 19th and 20th centuries, scholars commonly dated the "

EDWARD THE CONFESSOR AND HIS SUCCESSION Edward The Confessor was the king of England between 1042 and 1066. When Denmark invaded England in 1013, his family was exiled in Normandy. He kept exiled until 1041, year in which he took part in the court of his brother Harthacnut, who died on his own wedding because he had too much alcohol in 1042. After the death of his brother, Edward became the new king of England. During his reign, he had to face a one-year crisis due to ecclesiastic problems (the monks of Canterbury chose a Godwin’s relative as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051, but Edward rejected him and appointed Robert of Jumièges. After that, Archbishop Robert accused Godwin of plotting against the king. But, as any side was willing to fight each other, Godwin and his sons run away and headed to Flanders and Ireland. The succession There are many theories and discrepancies about the succession, and many hi

5 States of USA     Mississippi Mississippi  is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico . Its western border is formed by the Mississippi River . The state has a population of approximately 3 million. It is the 32nd most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States . Located in the center of the state, Jackson is the state capital and largest city, with a population of approximately 175,000 people. The state is heavily forested outside of the Mississippi Delta area, between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War , most development in the state was along riverfronts, where slaves worked on cotton plantations. After the war, the bottomlands to the interior were cleared, mostly by freedmen . By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after a financi