Scotland was important to the Roman Catholics because:

they had built many expensive churches there.

It had valuable natural resources.

Scotland had several good universities for Catholic students.

They could use it as a base to destroy Protestant England.

Existing to a lot of people

The nickname would be : " robber bandits" i believe

The three steps before modern english were indo-european, germanic, and old english. as peoples moved around the eurasian continent, their languages changed. throughout the ages, the languages became more specialized. as english has many germanic influences, it is easy to see how this was one of the forebears. also, old english was one of the main ancestors of the modern language, spoken in the 5th through about the 13th centuries.