"It is believed that the first group(s) of hunter-gatherers arrived in Scotland around 11,000 years ago, as the ice sheet retreated after the last ice age. Groups of settlers began building the first permanent houses on Scottish soil around 9,500 years ago, and the first villages around 6,000 years ago." - Wikipedia
2006-09-02 05:21:58
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answered by Alex Y 1
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Scotland has been there for 100,000s of years.
Do you mean....
When was it first named?
When was it fisrt deamed a soveriegn state?
When was if first inhabited by man?
When did it first take on its curren geographical form?
THE BEST ANSWER I CAN GIVE YOU IS AROUND 10,000 YEARS AGO.
Caledonia was named around 2000 years ago.
The history of Scotland begins around 10,000 years before the present day, when modern humans first began to inhabit Scotland after the end of the Devensian glaciation, the last ice age. Of the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age civilisations that existed in the country, many artefacts remain, but few written records were left behind.
The written history of Scotland largely begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in Britain, when the Romans occupied what is now England and Wales, administering it as a Roman province called Britannia. To the north was territory not governed by the Romans — Caledonia, by name. Its people were the Picts. From a classical historical viewpoint Scotland seemed a peripheral country, slow to gain advances filtering out from the Mediterranean fount of civilisation, but as knowledge of the past increases it has become apparent that some developments were earlier and more advanced than previously thought, and that the seaways were very important to Scottish history.
Because of the geographical orientation of Scotland and its strong reliance on trade routes by sea, the nation held close links in the south and east with the Baltic countries, and through Ireland with France and the continent of Europe. Following the Act of Union and the subsequent Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, Scotland became one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe. Its industrial decline following the Second World War was particularly acute, but in recent decades the country has enjoyed something of a cultural and economic renaissance, fuelled in part by a resurgent financial services sector, the proceeds of North Sea oil and gas, and latterly a devolved parliament.
2006-09-02 12:27:13
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answered by David T 3
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Scotland has always been there and it's the rest of the world thats been discovered
2006-09-02 12:25:01
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answered by grumpyoldman 4
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what do you mean when was Scotland discovered . Scotland discovered the world
2006-09-05 17:15:37
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answered by Anonymous
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Has Scotland been discovered? Good Heavens, I hadn't noticed.
2006-09-02 12:37:01
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answered by Belinda B 3
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Last Tuesday.
2006-09-02 12:22:08
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answered by stevewbcanada 6
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12;45 PM 17th January 1972.
2006-09-02 12:25:32
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answered by st_john_gumby 2
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It has still yet to be fully charted, and are wild tribesmen in the Strathclyde region who are known to practice cannibalism.
2006-09-04 12:49:14
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answered by Anonymous
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I thought they found it when they built the M1.
2006-09-02 12:25:20
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answered by Mungo 3
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