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The Ice Age; the Paleolithic Period; Iberians; the Beaker people; Stonehenge;; Celts; Julius Caesar; Albion; Londinium; Germanic tribes of the Jutes, the Saxons and the Angles; Northumbria; Mercia; East Anglia; King Alfred; invasions; conquests; Normandy; Hastings; William the Conqueror; Feudalism; the Tower of London; the Domesday Book; invaders; manor (house); plague; Black Death; the Plantagenet dynasty; Richard the Lionheart; John Lackland; Magna Charta; the 1st English Parliament; poll-tax; John Wyclif; Lollards; Wat Tyler; the Canterbury Tales; Geoffrey Chaucer; Roger Bacon; the Hundred Years Was; the Wars of the Roses; the House of Yours; the House of Lancasters; the Tudor dynasty; the “Enclosures”; Henry VIII; the Reformation; the Anglican Church; Elizabeth I; the Spanish Armada; the Renaissance; William Shakespeare; Sir Thomas More; Francis Bacon; capitalism; the East India Company; the bourgeoisie; the gentry; the Stuart dynasty; Charles I; the Petition of Rights; the Puritans; the Presbyterians;; the Long Parliament; Oliver Cromwell; the Restoration; the Tories; the Whigs; the Habeas Corpus Act; the Bill of Rights; constitutional or parliamentary monarchy; the Act of Settlement; Sir Christopher Wren; St Paul’s Cathedral; the War of the Spanish Succession; the Treaty of Utrecht; the Seven Years War; the Industrial Revolution; the War of Independence; the Boston tea-party; the National liberation movement; the Act of Union (1801); Adam Smith and “Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”; W. Hogarth; J. Reynolds; Th. Gainsborough; W. Blake; Napoleonic wars; admiral Nelson; Cape Trafalgar; the Duke of Wellington; economic slump; the Six Acts; the Slavery Abolition Act; the Reform Act (1832); Chartism; Queen Victoria; the Great London Exhibition (1851); the Irish Potato Famine; B. Disraeli; Ch. Darwin; G. Byron; the Victorian Era; the Labour Party; the World War I; the Triple Entente; D.L. George; Irish independence and partition; W. Churchill; the Trade Unions Act (1927); the Great Depression; the World War II; Lend Lease; council housing; nationalization; Clemet Attlee; decolonization; a golden age of full employment; the Commonwealth of Nations (1949); the Irish Republican Army; the Belfast Agreement; M. Thatcher; unemployment; deindustrialization; J. Major; T. Blair; the European Economic Community; the European Union; economic crisis (2008); D.Cameron.
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Вопросы для самоконтроля
1) Give a short survey of ancient Britain.
2) How did the Roman conquest occur?
3) Describe the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
4) Describe William’s conquest and the main features of feudalism.
5) Describe the development of England in the 11th-12th centuries.
6) Discuss the development of the English Parliament, language, education, literature.
7) What were the results of the Wars of the Roses?
8) Describe the Reformation in England.
9) Give a review of the English colonial expansion in the 16th century.
10) Describe the historical background in England in the beginning of the 17th century.
11) Explain the role of the Puritan movement in the development of the revolution.
12) Describe the Commonwealth and Protectorate governments.
13) Outline the main developments in the Restoration period.
14) Who were the Tories and the Whigs?
15) Give a short survey of the economic and social development of England in the 18th century.
16) Summarize the atmosphere in England as a result of the Napoleonic wars.
17) Expand on the liberal reforms in the 1820s, 1830s.
18) Why was Britain called world workshop?
19) Outline the origins and Developments of WWI.
20) Outline the British participation in WWII.
21) Assess the economic position of GB in the 1960s and 1970s.
22) Give a review on the current developments in the UK.
