Northern Europe

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Northern Europe

• The British Isles

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Countries vs. Islands

• ISLANDS
• Great Britain
• England, Scotland, Wales
• Ireland
• Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland
• COUNTRIES
• United Kingdom
• England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
• Republic of Ireland
• Republic of Ireland

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5,000 Years of History

• 5,000 y/a Stonehenge built.
• 4,000 y/a - Celts, Scots, Welch, Irish inhabit
  lands.
• 2,000 y/a - Romans build fortified towns.
• 1,000 y/a Angles, Saxons, Normans, Vikings
  invade.
• 400 y/a British Empire begins to rise w/ the
  1st colonies in North America.

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British Empire

• The British built a huge navy controlled the
  seas.
• At its height in the mid 1800s, The British
  Empire controlled 30 of the land of Earth
  Canada, US, Australia, India, most of Africa.
• The sun never sets on the British Empire.
• 1776 American colonies gain independence.
• 1830s Irish Potato Famine blight destroyed
  Irish potato crop for years 1,000,000 people
  died those who survived left for Canada, US,
  Australia.

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Culture

• UK Protestants British
• Ireland Catholics Irish
• Tense relations btwn. Ireland Northern Ireland.
• Industrial Revolution the use of machines to do
  jobs increased productivity making a better
  quality, more quantity over a shorter time than
  making something by hand.