member of a Teutonic tribe, Old English, from Latin Angli the Angles, literally people of Angul (Old Norse Ãngull), a region in what is now Holstein, said to be so-called for its hook-like shape (see angle (n.)). People from the tribe there founded the kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbia, and East Anglia in 5c. Britain.
Who Were the Greeks? Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks. He asks who were these people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport. Not available.
Between 2000 and 1600 BCE mainland Greece and the Peloponnese were invaded by a new people, the Greeks. They were warrior-herdsmen, looking for new pastures for their herds. These Achaeans were an Indo-European people whom the Hittites called the Ahiyawa. As they came into Greece they ceased their semi-nomadic lifestyle and settled in Thessaly, Boetia, Attica, Argolis and Messenia. Each city was ruled by a king from the warrior/landowning aristocracy, called the wanax. The cities began to trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. These people are known today as the Mycenaeans, and their culture thrived between 1400 and 1200 BCE. Each city-state had a fortified palace surrounded by massive defense walls. Outside of the large estate of the wanax, farmland was collectively owned. Below the free lower classes, there were slaves.