SCOTLAND CULTURE

THIS IS A GAELIC COUNTRY PART OF LIMITED KINGDOM.  SCOTLAND HAS 790 ISLANDS.  EDINBERG WAS THE HUB IN 1700'S THAT TRANFORMED IT INTO A COMMERCE, INTELLECTUAL AND INDIVIDUAL POWERHOUSES OF EUROPE.  THIS WAS ONCE ONE WITH ONE OF THE WORLD'S LEADING INDUSTRIAL CITIES.  THEY HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST OIL RESERVES IN THE EUROPEAN CONTRIES.

IN THE MIDDLE AGES IT CONTINUED TO BE A HUB.  SCOTLAND HAS SEPARATE LEGAL, RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS DISTINCT FROM THOSE IN THE REMAINDER OF U.K..  SCOTLAND IS A MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ISLE COUNCIL.

THE COUNTRY WAS SCOTIA IN THE 11TH CENTURY.  THE ARCHAEOLOGISTS HERE SITUATED IN STUDIED SKARA BRAE, THE MOST INTACT NEOLITHIC VILLAGE DATING 3100 - 2500 B.C.  THEY HAD MANY GLACIATIONS HERE THAT DESTROYED HUMAN HABITATIONS BEFORE MESOLITHIC PERIOD.  ABOUT 13,000 YEARS AGO HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.  THE ICE SHEET RETREATED. THE FIRST PERMANENT HOUSE ON SCOTTISH SOIL CAME HERE ABOUT 95,00 YEARS AGO WITH VILLAGES ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.  THEY FOUND AN EARLY BRONZE AGE TRADING CULTURE CALLED THE ATLANTIC BRONZE AGE THAT INCLUDED ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.

ROMANS INVADED SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND AND WALES CALLING IT BRITANIA.  THEY HAD NO WRITING CALLING IT IS A PERIOD CALLED PROTOHISTORY. ROMANS HAD A PROTOHISTORY.  ROMANS HAD A SERIES OF INVASIONS.  ROMAN MILITARY OCCUPIED NORTH SCOTLAND  FOR 40 YEARS.  THEY HAD SQIRMISHED CONFLICTS.  SETTLERS FROM IRELAND FOUNDED THE SCOTTISH AREA.

THE KINGDOM OF PITE WAS THE STATE THAT EVENTUALLY BECAME KNOWN AS THE KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND.

SCOTLAND HAD A STABLE PERIOD BETWEEN THE 12TH AND 14TH CENTURIES.  THEY WERE PEACEFUL  WITH ENGLAND  AND HAD EDUCATIONAL LINKS.  WITH MAIN EUROPEANLANDS.  MANY KINGS PASSED THROUGH THE SCOTTISH LEADERSHIP.  VARIOUS LEADERS HAD PROBLEMS WITH VARIOUS NEARBY COUNTRIES AND EVEN WITH SCOTLAND.

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