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Ryu wrote:Bah, we need more britts, you know, those that drive on the proper side of the road, drink proper beer, and use proper money :-D
Bah, we need more britts, you know, those that drive on the proper side of the road, drink proper beer, and use proper money
By 600, about half of Britain was ruled by Anglo-Saxon kings. Most of those in the south accepted Ethelbert, King of Kent, as their overlord. During the seventh century, the rulers of the kingdom of Mercia (the borders of which reached from the Welsh border across the Midlands to the North Sea), grew in power. Authority was won over most of the kingdoms of central and south England, including Essex and the London area.They also claimed to be overlords of the Kings of Wessex and Northumbria, during the reign of Ethelbald, (716-757), and Offa, (757-796). Offa's reign was exemplified by a rampart-barrier or dyke, which ran along seventy miles of his western border to assist its defence against Welsh in-roads. He also set up mint that issued the first coinage, including the gold 'dinar', the first coin to be commonly used throughout southern Britain since Roman times..
