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Led by Guthrum the Vikings invade England
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After conquering Northrumbia, East Angleia & Mercia
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Alfred The Great defeats the Vikings and makes Guthrum turn catholic & no invasions
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Alfred The Great Won the Battle of Edington & Vikings agreed to live in peace
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During his rule the country became quiet and pleasant. He was nicknamed 'Edgar The Peacful'
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At the age of 12 Edward was murdered. Some people felt Aethelred played a part in this.
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After his brothers death Aethelred becomes King, advisers were put in but they were corrupt
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Vikings launch a series of attacks
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Sweyn beats the English, him and Athelred made a deal that Athelred would pay Danegeld (money) to keep him out
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Athelred orders everyone south of the Danelaw to be killed.
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Forkbeard attacks in vengeance of his sister who was killed in the massacre.
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Athelred becomes king but Cnut supporters weren't happy
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Cnut isn't happy and tries to get the throne
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Cnut wins the battle, the two men agree Edmund would run Wessex & Cnut will run the rest of the country
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Harthacnut was hated
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Harold was hated
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Edward was religious and loved
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When Edwards died there was no heir to the throne which made a competition between Harold Hardrada, Harold Godwinson, William of Normandy
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After lots of fighting William finally becomes King
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After Normandy was split from England by Henry's two older siblings Henry unites the two countries
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she was challenged by her cousin Stephen for the throne which lked to a civil war known as 'the anarchy'
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Matilda married Geoffrey count of Anjou who conquered Normandy she lets Stephen be king of England in return he names her son (henry) his successor
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John lost this battle and got named 'John Softsword' and 'the stay at home King'
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after being defeated in Brittany John lost places like Normandy, Anjou, Maine and other key areas
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After taxing highly and losing lots of Britain's power & wealth the barons forced him to sign a charter called the Magna Carta which limited his power
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Louis captured London quickly
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the hated king was dead and England led by William Marshall (the regent) started kicking out the French
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he was closely linked to the French, he though he had a better claim to throne then Philip vi
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Edward won due to longbows which could be reloaded quicker & fire much futher
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Henry marched his troops to France, north Calais, where he was met by 30000 French he had 11000 exhausted English soldiers he defeated Normandy and married the daughter of the French King
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Henry named heir to French throne
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Joan of Arc said the voices of the saints told her to free France, she was burned to death
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named after the queen Elizabeth, people couldn't farm so on the first attempt it failed, but on the 2nd attempt they learnt from nice Native American tribes, high profits came from Tabaco and soon lots of people moved to America
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tried to escape religious persecution in France
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monopoly trade
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a ship called the mayflower left and made a colony called 'new Portsmouth', made living from fishing, set up democratic constitution=pilgrim fathers (seen as first 'real' Americans
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Britain restricted the amount and what type of goods traded and mad the Americans trade only with Britain
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England caused famine to try and reduce the highlanders power after them supporting the stuart bloodline
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Robert Clive defeats the Indian army of 40,000 which the EIC took over Bengal one of the richest parts of India
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Taxes got really high in particular paper, all paper was taxed High and stamped to symbolise this
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Fed up of the British and their insanely high taxes they dumped £11,000 worth of tea in the sea, in revenge Britain banned all town meetings and close ports
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stated that both the British Government & the EIC had control the territory of India jointly
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After Britain not pay9ing much attention to the colonies they became more independent and started growing tired of being part of the British empire and obey their rules instead of their own
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The English brought out a new gun with gun cartridges that were coated in animal fat & the only way to use it was to put the cartridge in their mouth due to religion they refused & got jailed for 10 years
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rest of the country started to rebel with the seypoys in support, the English brutally killed them (hanging them in pigskins)
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things got better Indians were put in government & less interference in religious matters from the English