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The Romans
• roads• Hadrian´s Wall• Antonine Wall
Anglo Saxon
• 3 kingdoms - Mercia - Northumbria - Wessex
The Normans
William of Normandy• Crowned 1066• Castels ( Windsor, Warwick)
Henry II• Ordering the murder of Thomas Becket
William Shakespeare• ,, England´s national poet,, ,, Bard of Avon• poet, playwright, actor• Romeo and Juliet• Hamlet• Macbeth
Henry VIII• six marriages (2 daugters: Mary, Elizabeth,1 son Edward)
• Catherine of Aragon ( Mary )• Anne Boleyn ( Elizabeth )• Jane Seymour ( Edward )• Anne of Cleves• Catherine Howard• Catherine Parr
Mary- Catholic- effort to restore
Catholism to England- ,, bloody Mary,,
Elizabeth I• The Vinrgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess• Elizabeth era- English drama, seafaring power
Oliver Cromwell- 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
Queen Victoria• sovereign from 1837 – 1901• empress of India from 1876• Daughter of Prince Edward• Housband Prince Albert ( 9 children)
• Great expansion of the British Empire
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer – Churchill• (1874 – 1965)• politican• statesman • officer in the British Army• historican• writer (Nobel Prize)
Elizabeth II• Housband Prince philip • 4 children: - Charles - Anne - Andrew - Edward
The Beatles• Liverpool 1960• John Lenon (rhythm guitar, vocals)• Paul McCartney (bass guitar,vocals)• George Harrison ( lead guitar, vocals)• Ringo Star (drums, vocals)