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Put in order...

• Industrial Revolution
• Anglo-Saxon invasion
• Magna Carta (the Great Charter)
• Romans leave the country
• The peasant uprising (John Wycliffe and the
  Lollards)
• arrival of the Celtic people
• Roman invasion
• The Rebublic of England (Oliver Cromwell)
• The First World War
• Norman invasion
• The first parliament is called (by Simon de
  Montfort)

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Roman Invasion

• Conquered in 43AD
• The North of the island was not conquered.
• In 122 A.D., Emperor Hadrian built a wall
  separating North and South.

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Hadrians Wall
117km long 5m high
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A Legend

• King Arthur
• The sword in the stone
• The knights of the round table
• The search for the Holy Grail (cup)
• Fought the Saxons

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Another Legend
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The Story of Robin Hood

• King Richard was away from England for many
  years, fighting wars.
• Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham were
  cruel to the people.
• Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forrest, with his
  Merry Men.
• He robbed from the rich, and gave to the poor.

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The Crusades

• several wars during the 12th and 13th centuries,
• against Muslims in the Holy Land (such as
  Jerusalem).
• England fought in only some of the crusades.

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Social Structure

• Celtic tribes
• 20-30 tribes, each with a king
• people worked on their familys farm
• trained Druids were important in religious life
• women could be soldiers and leaders
• Queen Boadicea fought the Romans

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Social Structure

• Roman invasion
• Roman army and politicians were in control
• people in cities adopted Roman culture
• but country areas were less affected
• After the Romans left
• many people left the cities
• culture had been influenced, but not completely
  changed

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Social Structure

• Anglo-Saxon invasion
• a complex class system
• lower classes had to do some work on the nobles
  farm
• seven kingdoms, always fighting
• finally they united under King Alfred to defend
  against the Danes

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Social Structure

• Norman invasion
• the development of a feudal system
• Feudalism nobles received land from their lord,
  and had to fight in his army
• Manorialism villeins (serfs) received land
  from a noble, and had to do work for him
• feudalism declined in the 14th century
• peasants had more freedom
• they paid rent to the noble who owned the land

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Social Structure

• Industrial Revolution
• cloth-making became very profitable
• nobles created large farms for sheep
  (enclosure)
• many peasants lost their land
• these people moved into the cities
• they became the working class

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The Right to Vote

• The first parliament of 1265 only men who owned
  a lot of land could vote
• First Reform Act 1832 about 7
• Second Reform Act 1866 about 15
• Third Reform Act 1884 most men
• 1918 women over 30
• 1928 women over 21