<P> The Anglo - Saxons were the members of Germanic - speaking groups who migrated to the southern half of the island from continental Europe , and their cultural descendants . Anglo - Saxon history thus begins during the period of Sub-Roman Britain following the end of Roman control , and traces the establishment of Anglo - Saxon kingdoms in the 5th and 6th centuries ( conventionally identified as seven main kingdoms : Northumbria , Mercia , East Anglia , Essex , Kent , Sussex , and Wessex ) , their Christianisation during the 7th century , the threat of Viking invasions and Danish settlers , the gradual unification of England under Wessex hegemony during the 9th and 10th centuries , and ending with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 . </P>
<P> The Anglo - Saxons were the members of Germanic - speaking groups who migrated to the southern half of the island from continental Europe , and their cultural descendants . Anglo - Saxon history thus begins during the period of Sub-Roman Britain following the end of Roman control , and traces the establishment of Anglo - Saxon kingdoms in the 5th and 6th centuries ( conventionally identified as seven main kingdoms : Northumbria , Mercia , East Anglia , Essex , Kent , Sussex , and Wessex ) , their Christianisation during the 7th century , the threat of Viking invasions and Danish settlers , the gradual unification of England under Wessex hegemony during the 9th and 10th centuries , and ending with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066 . </P>
when did the anglo-saxon kingdoms establish in britain
when did the anglo-saxon kingdoms establish in britain
in the 5th and 6th centuries
in the 5th and 6th centuries