History of England

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History of England

• By
• Aurora Migani

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Origin of Britain...

• The first population of England was...
• CELTS.
• In prehistory Britain wasnt an island.
• It become an island about 50 century B.C.
• The old british population was called Celts, they
  arrived from Europe across the english channel
  and for a long time werent any new arrivals.

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Typical Celts house
Celts houses

• Celts lived in
• small farms with animals.
• They grew crops and hunted.
• The typical celtic house looks likes a
  thatched long cabin.

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Druids

• Celts worshipped gods and goddeses.
• Their priests were called
• DRUIDS.
• Celtic tradition live on in our culture today by
  their descendantIrish,Scottish and Welsh.

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The most important monuments are

• Stonehenge
• and
• Hadrians wall

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Stonehenge

• Stonehenge is the most important
• prehistoric site in Britain
• We dont know if it was...
• A place where you can observ star and planets
• An area where tribes assembled
• A temple for the adoration of the sun
• THE MOST ANCIENT ORDER OF DRUIDS
• Meets at stonehenge every year at down on
  midsummers day and performs ancient mystic rites
  around the stones.

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?adrians wall

• Hadrians wall is an important
• roman
• archeological site.
• It was build to stop the schottish tribes
• coming from
• England.

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When romans arrived to Britain...
The romans stayed for almost 400 years.

• Roman introduce towns. British people
  followed the roman way of life.

The Romans gave the name Britain to the country,
they come to Britain in 55 B.C., led by Julius
Caesar.
The romans built roads. Roman roads are long and
straight and we still use them today.
They had clean waters, acqueduct and bath.
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When romans arrived to Britain
Romans built a bridge and a town called Londinium
other important towns take their name from the
latin word Castra (Chester, Doncaster..)
Many english words come from latin
(Dentist).
Londinium
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Roman governament...

• They brought a system of government to the
  whole country.

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Other population of Britain

• When the roman empire began to collapse the
  romans left Britain.
• The island was conquered by
• Angle Saxon,Vikings and Normans.

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1 Angle Saxon

• Angle Saxon were a tribes coming from the
  north of Germany.
• They called the
• newly-conquered territory
• ANGLE LAND then England.

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2 Vikings

• The hero of the resistance against the
• Angle Saxon was
• KING ARTHUR
• After the Angle Saxon arrived the vikings.
• They mixed with the Angle Saxon.

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3 Normans

• Normans came in 1066 from France.
• William Duke acrossed the channel with is army
  and defeated the Angle Saxon in the battle of
  Hasting.

was called the Conquered
They were the last people who conquered England
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The road to democracy

• In medieval times kings ruled with absolute
  power.

Magna carta was signed in 1215 by John Lackland,
so Britain became a constitutional monarchy.Magna
Carta is a document wich limited power of king.
King John was called Lackland because during his
reing England lost territories in France.
Resistance of people to Lackland is famous by
the legends of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe
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Henry the eighth

• Henry the VIII had six wives
• Two died.
• Two divorce.
• One died after she had given him a son called
  Edward.
• One survived him.

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How britain became protestant
One of Henry successors was Elisabeth I,a great
queen. During her reing England became a power.

• Britain became protestant because the pope didnt
  want to give Henry divorce.
• So Henry declared the end of papal power.

Capitain of England was Sir Drake
Rival of England was Spain.
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