Analyze how democratic traditions took shape in England and France.
in the 800's, the britains were attacked by many invadors, including the angles, saxons, vikings, and the normans. the anlges and the saxons stayed, creating an anglo-saxon culture. the invasions of the vikings were so feared that the people of Britain made a prayer that was said in churches, "God, deliver us from the fury of the Northmen." Alfred the Great, an anglo-saxon king managed to turn back the invasions of the vikings. slowly, he nd his successors united the kingdom to become a single rule, England, "the land of the angles."
in 1016, the danish king Canute conquered England and unified the angles-saxons, and the vikings into one people. in 1042, king edward, a descendant from alfred the king took the thron but soon died in 1066 without anyone to take his place, this caused one last invasion, the norman invasion.