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Hengist and Horsa, two brothers who according to tradition, led the Jutish invasion of Britain and founded Kent. In 449 they were invited by Vortigern to help the Britons defend themselves against the Picts and the Scots to the norts. They settled in Kent and fought a battle with Vortigern where Horsa was killed. While some think that the names are mythical, historians usually agree that a 5th century Jutish chief and his entourage arrived in Kent, served a British king, revolted, and their battles prepared the way for the Jutes to later settle Kent. The Celts are a group of people who originated in southwest Germany and eastern France in the 2nd millennium B.C.E. They spread rapidly over Europe and even penetrated into Asia Minor. They had a tribal organization that became increasingly hierarchical as wealth was acquired and the priests, nobles, artisans and peasants were clearly distinguished. They believed in a demonic universe and relied on the ministry of the druids, who were priests that worshiped a pantheon of nature deities. By the 4th century B.C.E. the Celts could no l onger withstand the encroaching Germanic tribes and they lost their holdings in the north and in western Germany. Before the Romans invaded Britain, the Celts ruled. After the Roman general Julius Caesar conquered Gaul (now France), he decided to attack their allies, the Britons to teach them a lesson for their assistance to the Gauls.
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