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England Notes

Location Places InteractionPrime Meridian Buckingham Palace Magna CartaThames River Parliament Deforestation Chunnel Westminster Abby Industrial Revolution

Stonehenge

Movement Region PeopleBattle of Hastings 1066 British Empire Queen Elizabeth IIAnglo Saxon migration British Isles Prime MinisterFeudalism Winston Churchill

Elizabeth IHenry VIIIWilliam the Conquer

Prime Meridian

The Prime Meridian – the worlds most famous line of longitude.

Royal Observatory Greenwich England

River Thames(pronounced TEMZ)

Chunnel

Stonehenge

Anglo Saxon Migration

Westminster Abby

1066 The Battle of Hastings • Last time England was successfully invaded

by a foreign power.

William the Conqueror • Lead his Norman army across the

English Channel to successfully invade England.

Feudalism

• Political System in which powerful lords owned most of the land.

Generic plan of a mediaeval manor; open-field strip farming, some enclosures, triennial crop rotation, demesne and manse, common woodland, pasturage and meadow

Magna Carta

• Historic document that limited the power of the English King signed in 1215.

An English charter originally issued in 1215. Magna Carta was the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today.

Parliament

• England's representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed (in some cases, they inherit the position)

Henry VIII (8th)

Henry VIII is famous for having been married six times. He wielded perhaps the most formidable power of any English monarch and brought about the English Reformation. Many significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry VIII's reign. They included the several Acts which severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church and established the king as the supreme head of the Church in England.

Queen Elizabeth

Portrait of Elizabeth to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), depicted in the background. Elizabeth's hand rests on the globe, symbolising her international power.

Daughter of Henry VIII (from his 2nd wife Anne Boleyn), ruled England for 45 years through a glorious & golden age. England became a major power under her rule.

Buckingham Palace

England

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution which began in Britain marked a major turning point in human social history. Manual labor based economies began to be replaced by ones dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.

British Empire • “the sun never set’s on the British Empire”• Thanks to the Royal navy, England ruled & controlled ¼

of the worlds population. This colonial rule spread English culture & laws to the rest of the world.

Winston Churchill • Prime minister of England during WWII,

responsible for preserving and defending democracy & freedom in Europe.

Elizabeth II

Gordon Browncurrent Prime Minister

British Isles