WALES CULTURE

EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF HUMAN PRESENCE IN WALES DATES BACK TO PALEOLITHIC TIMES APPROXIMATELY OF HUMAN  200,000 YEARS AGO.  THE FIRST TRIBES HERE CAME FROM WESTERN COASTAL AREAS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AND WERE CALLED IBERIANS.  BY THE BRONZE AGE ABOUT 3000 YEARS B.C. A SEDENTARY  CIVILIZATION DEVELOPED HERE.

WALES IS A COUNTRY THAT IS PART OF UNITED KINGDOM.  IN 2011IT HAD A POPULATION OF 3 MILLION.  IT IS MOSTLY MOUNTAINOUS AREAS.   IT HAS MARITIME CLIMATE AND IS IN A TEMPERATE ZONE.

THE RODMAN WITHDREW FROM THE BRITAIN IN THE AND WALES IS NOW A DEVELOPED  AND MODERN NATION.  IN 1280 ENGLAND OWNED WALES , BUT  THEY ARE AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY  NOW.

DURING THE INDUSTRIAL MINING AND METAL INDUSTRIES TRQANSFORMED WALES FROM AGRICULTURAL TO AN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRY.  THEY ALSO DEVELOPED A COAL INDUSTRY AND INCREASED THEIR POPULATION.  MUCH OF THEIR ECONOMY DEPENDS ON WALES.  A SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION STILL SPEAKS WELSH.

"WALES IS  DERIVED FROM GERMAN MEANING FROM "FOREIGNER", WHO HAD BEEN ROMANIZED.  ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND SITES AT LEAST TO 29,000 YEARS.  SOME SITES HAVE BEEN USED  FROM 12,000 - 10,000 YEARS CONTINUOUSLY.  MESOLITHIC HUNTERS AND GATHERS FROM EUROPE CAME HERE WHEN  SEA LEVELS WERE LOWER.  THE NORTH SEA WAS ACTUALLY A BAY THEN. DENMARK, GERMANY, AND NETHERLANDS WERE CONNECTED BY THE FORMER LAND MASS KNOWN AS DOGGERLAND.  BY 10,250 B.P. WARMER CLIMATE ALLOWED THE AREA TO BE HEAVILY WOODED.  THE NEOLITHIC COLONISTS CAME HERE TO MEET INDIGENOUS PEOPLE GRADUALLY CHANGING FROM  NOMADS TO HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.  BY 6000 B.P.  THEY STARTED FARMING.  THEY CUT DOWN TREES TO CULTIVATE LAND, DEVELOPED NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN TEXTILE WITH CERAMICS.  THE PEOPLE IN WALES EXCHANGED IDEAS OF THE BRONZE  AGE AND IRON AGE.  CELTIC CULTURES IN WALES WERE PART OF A MARITIME TRADING NETWORK THAT INCLUDED ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND PORTUGUESE.

THE ROMAN CONQUEST WAS IN 48 A.D. AND TOOK 30 YEARS TO COMPLETE IN WALES.  IN OTHER COUNTRIES THEY FOUGHT FOR 300 YEARS! WALES HAD A RICH MINERAL DEPOSIT .  THERE WERE TWO NATIVE TRIBES  WHO THE ROMANS DID NOT CONQUER. 

THE ROMANS HAD ENGINEERS TAKE OUT GOLD, COPPER, LEAD, ZINC, AND SILVER.  ROMAN INFLUENCE CAME THROUGH THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY.  GAINING FOLLOWERS IN 313.

AFTER ROME LEFT WALES IN 1410 A.D. MUCH OF THE LOWLANDS OF WALES AND BRITAIN IN THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST WERE OVERRUN BY GERMANS.

WALES WAS REFFERED TO AS A LAND OF SONG.  THEY USE FIDDLES, HARPS, HORNPIPES AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS. THEY HAVE MUSIC FESTIVALS.  THE WALES PEOPLE HAVE A NATIONAL OPERA.THEIR YOUTH ORCHESTRA WAS THE FIRST IN THE WORLD.  THE BEATLES ORIGINATED HERE! WELSH AND FOLK MUSIC IS IN RESURGENCE .  MALE CHOIRSIN THE 1800'S HAVE REMAINED A LASTING TRADITION IN WALES.  THEY WERE PART OF CHAPEL CHOIRS.  THEY HAD MANY ARTISTS, SCULPTURES, POTTERS THROUGHOUT HISTORY.

WALES IS TRADITIONALLY AN AGRARIAN SOCIETY AND THEY REPRESENT AND EAT SIMPLE FOODS.  BAKI8NG IS A BIG PART OF OF THEIR CULTURE AND THEY EAT FRUITCAKES, MEAT BASED STEWS, WELSH RAREBIT AND COOKIES, AND TROUT.

72% OF THE POPULATION IS CHRISTIAN.  SOME FOLKSARE ROMAN CATHOLIC.  THEY PLAY RUGBY, FOOTBALL,  BOXING AND

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