The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler

Volume 4, the Medieval World

Episode 45 The Battle of Banachburn Oh, you know, it's all.

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Oh, now. Before the Neolithic Revolution the British Isles and especially the Scottish lands of Great Britain

was somewhat uninhabitable due to the colder climate.

We can then see the emergence of hunter-gatherers with

their bone tools, building wooden and stone houses as well as being boat

builders. In the latter centuries of the first millennium B.C.

Scottish lands saw an upsurge of stone burial cans and stone circles similar in nature to Stonehenge much further south.

Small fortified villages and artificial islands called Cranogues

point towards a hostile environment and stone houses started becoming more diverse in their structures.

Before the Roman invasion of Great Britain, classical world societies certainly had their

trade routes open with the British Isles and sailors had circumnavigated the

islands bringing knowledge of their geography back to the Mediterranean powers.

Scotland seems evidently to have been a mixture of clans and tribes battling for supremacy

over one another in a warrior society.

The Romans attempted to invade Great Britain from the first century B.C. E. onwards until they eventually succeeded in occupation during

the following century and within the first few decades they had subjugated the

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