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History of Scotland

The history of Scotland begins around 10,000 years before present, when modern humans began to inhabit Scotland after the end of the Würm or Wisconsin glaciation, the last iceage. In the civilizations of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age that existed, there are many artifacts, but they were few written records.
The 120 miles of Hadrian's Wall delimiting the borderbetween Scotland, the north and the Roman Empire to the south with small forts and gates spaced at a distance of a Roman mile. The Roman rule came further north but was short lived.
The written historyof Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in Britain when the Romans occupied what is now England and Wales, administering it as the Roman province of Britannia. To the north wasterritory not governed by the Romans - Caledonia. His people were the Picts. From a classical historical viewpoint Scotland seemed a peripheral country, slow to make progress that filtered from the sourceof Mediterranean civilization, but as the growing knowledge of the past, it has become apparent that some developments were more primitive and more advanced than previously thought and that the seaswere very important to Scottish history.

Since the beginning of the eighth century until the thirteenth century were the Celts who were in charge of the Scottish crown, was the first Scottish kingKenneth MacAlpin, which began in 840, and the last was Alexander III, who ended his reign in 1249 . After the Norman settlement, it was they who dominated the country (1286-constitution of the vote).Due to the geographical orientation of Scotland and its heavy reliance on maritime trade routes, it had close ties in the south and east with the Baltic countries, and France throughout Ireland andmainland Europe. After the Act of Union and the subsequent Industrial Revolution and Enlightenment Scotland, Scotland became one of the major commercial, intellectual and industrial Europe. Its...