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Title: The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 A. D
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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\ \ TheGERMANIC KINGDOMS \ established on ROMAN SOIL Close of Fifth Century (Britain in Sixth Century) SCALE OF MILES jniteito a fiiaalL60u.theKajjtBij) (Septdmaiua) §748) TEUTONIC STATES IN BRITAIN 595 absorbed by the larger native populations. England alone, ofall the Roman provinces seized by the Teutons, became strictlya Teutonic state. In the eastern half of the island, in partic-ular, Roman institutions, the Roman language, Christianity,even names, for the most part, vanished, and the Romanizednatives were slain, driven out, or enslaved. 747. Conversion. — About the year 600, Christianity beganto win its way among these heathen conquerors. In the northof England, the early missionaries came mainly from the old(Celtic) Christian church still surviving in western Britain andin Ireland, long cut off from close connection with the rest ofChristendom. The south, on the other hand, was converted bymissionaries sent out directly by the pope of Rome; and therulers of the north were s

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