Peyton Grenard
Mrs. Beasley
English IV
September 4, 2015
The Iron Hunter Iron was very important to the to the Anglo-Saxons. It proved to be very versatile in everyday life. Finding iron ore was a messy and time-consuming task that would have been done near the source of iron. The iron around this time period was obtained from deposits near the surface of bogs. The iron hunter had no breaks. He worked in all weather know matter what trying to find the iron ore. Once the iron ore was obtained something had to be done with it. The iron ore was heated or roasted in a pit around 1500°C and was cover in charcoal. The process of melting iron ore was a very tricky one at that. The iron then eventually melted out of the ore. The bottom corner
The process to mine the coal is quite complex. First, surveyors are called on site to document the layout of the land so that in can be restored to
The iron industry was and still is now a very important and dangerous industry. It involved very dangerous tasks including mining in enclosed caves. Henry Oliver played a very important role in the iron and mining industry. Hope you enjoy!
The time when iron was beginning to be used primarily for making tools is referred to as the Iron Age.
England had many natural resources that helped them in the industrial revolution. They had coal, iron, wool, cotton, lead, and tin. All of these were somewhat close to each other, most in the southern part of England.(doc. 1)
This was very important for England for one, main thing money. England was losing money when the colonists made their own iron. England wouldn’t get as much taxes from the imports/exports. Also, England was losing jobs because they didn’t need people to make iron for them. So England decided to pass the iron act so they could get more money and jobs. This act was great for England but terrible for the
“England’s resources circa 1700 were wool, tin, cotton, water, coal, and lead.” Doc. 1. The coal was one of the most commonly used resources because it helped to heat, the factories and the workers homes. It also helped to helped to heat the workers homes, and to give more jobs to miners. The Cotton was also another very important resource.
The Anglo Saxon is a primary source written by an anglican monk who was captured and taken back to Norway. This chronicle is a recount of the brutal and harsh conditions in captivity and slavery. However; it may not be 100% historically correct due to the obvious grudge and biased point of view the monks have against the Viking warriors. The chronicle was originally written in old english and continuously updated for many years between, 1116-1154 AD . 9 copies of the original were made and spread throughout monasteries around england. All of these facts help depict the importance of this book. This source is quoted as being the single most useful old english historical source due to the fact that it helped historians piece together the romanian
The first beginning we had hunter and gatherers, and that became something that everybody started doing. People would use resources around them, and they would not stay in permanent settlements. Than a new life began and it was called Emergence of Agriculture. People know started having permanent settlements, the population has became bigger, and their health might be becoming shaky. These changes might have been better or worse.
It has been confirmed by archaeological evidence that iron, made from melting pig iron, was developed in ancient china in the early 5th century BC during the Zhou Dynasty. during the Shang dynasty China went into a flourishing period for steel smelting. in the Han dynasty, private enterprise iron making was abolished and was monopolized by the state, creating iron smelting bloom. The first famous metallurgist in ancient China Qiwu Huaiwen of the Northern Wei dynasty, who invented the process of using wrought iron and cast iron to make steel.
To get the iron to the furnaces, it was shipped 50 miles, by boat, from the mines. The cost to work the furnaces was about 120 slaves a furnace (Colonial Livings). In the beginning, “iron was produced in Bloomery forges, a hearth in which iron ore was combined with charcoal and heated.” To fuel these monstrous furnaces to make iron required many trees for fuel. One acre of trees produced about 30-40 cords of wood and about 4.5 cords were needed to make one ton of iron. ”One acre produced about 6.5-8.5 tons of iron.” Steel was also needed in the colonies. To produce small quantities of steel, used for blades and cutting implements such as saws, wrought iron was reheated, to a molten state in clay pots with measured amounts of charcoal.(Penn
Did you know that the mining of iron started over one and a half billion years ago? It started in Minnesota at a place now called called Masabi Iron Range. When it first started we didn't get a lot of it, but over the years we have made technology that can help us mine in better and faster. The mining of iron was very profitable, but it was also very dangerous, the mining shafts they worked in could collapse.
During the Anglo-Saxon time, the social periode of this age was hard on everyone, for this particular reason it had a big effect on the literature of this time, literature during these centuries reflected the realism of the situations and experiences of the time period ….. The fall of the Roman Empire threw the social conditions into chaos ; there was a lot of war between between cultures & religions, along with disagreement and mistreatment between classes of people (especially when it was a time of feudalism ), Historians and others thought of this iron age to be ; corrupt, vile and hellish ,because of this it has and continues to be nicknamed the “Dark Ages “. The Literature of this age shows the fatalistic world view that the people developed from this wretched time, the writings tell of death and war with little hope for a better future.For example in the story of Beowulf it shows the many challenges that a society had to face before it could even be near peace and even then problems kept coming, not only does it show these
The Vikings were Norse seafarers, who mainly spoke the Old Norse language. They raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the 9th to 11th century. The Vikings originated from Scandinavia, and the beginning of the Vikings expansion often originates from the raid of the Lindisfarne Monetary on 8 June 793. The Vikings were the first Westerners to sail to Iceland, Greenland, and over to the New World. However, the story of the Vikings is also an important story for the development of the Christian world in the West. Throughout this essay, I will explain the importance of Viking religion, Viking trade, and how the Viking age had an impact on the way Western and
The Anglo-Saxon period was a time around 410 AD where settlers from Modern Germany invaded Britain after the failure of the Roman Empire. Anglo-Saxon warriors were hired to preserve the Roman way of life but decided the land was good for themselves. Therefore, Britain became their home. Anglo-Saxons contributed greatly to the foundations of Britain by spreading their culture in ways of their language, literature, religion and traditions in law and government. They were referred to as the “First Englishmen” and left the strongest reminder of their presence in ways such as the Exeter Book. The Exeter Book was literature that expressed all the ways and values of the Anglo-Saxon people. “The seafarer”, “the wanderer”, and “the wife's lament” being part of the Exeter book expressed the central theme of isolationism.
The Anglo Saxon period is the oldest known period of time that had a complex culture with stable government, art, and a fairly large amount of literature. Many people believe that the culture then was extremely unsophisticated, but it was actually extremely advanced for the time. Despite the many advancements, the period was almost always in a state of war. Despite this fact, the Anglo-Saxon period is a time filled with great advancements and discoveries in culture, society, government, religion, literature, and art.