Identifier: introductiontoam00atki (find matches)
Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
'
Text Appearing After Image:
ENGLAND BEFORE THE ROMAN CONQUEST 17 thousand years ago. Another thousand years or sopassed before any one began to use iron. This hasproved the best metal for tools and machinery, for steelis, of course, only hardened iron. Mans discovery thathe could use iron is one of the most important that heever made. All that we know about the people who lived in thesedim ages of the past has been learned from the pieces offlint, the jugs and vases, the beads and shells, that arefound to-day in the earth, where it has been turned up indigging or plowing, or has been washed away by streams.Such remains are found, too, in caves and in the bigmounds in which the men of those early times buriedthe dead. No books have been left by them. Indeed, noone then could read or write, and the alphabet had noteven been thought of. Section 4. The Ancient Britons By the time, however, that the people living in Englandhad learned how to make use of iron, there were in Eu-rope two countries, Greece and Rome, whic

Note About Images