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original inhabitans of Britain
Stonehenge -
known as barbarians
divided in clans
hill forts
farmers ( they invented the iron plough
druids
strong in battles
importance of women -
With the emperor Claudius
Adrian's wall
they built stone ruds, theatres, baths and aquedots -
they were from Jutland and Germany >warlike race>society ruled only by men> heptarchy>sutton hoo
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they were from Scandinavia> modern ships> they were sailors,traders, fishrmen and farmers
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The duke of Normandy conquered England after the Battle of Hastings> feudal system
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•Forced by John 1,
known As Lackland -
fought between France and England> economic and political interests >3 impourtant battles: Crecy, Poiters, Agicourt
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he wrote The Canterbury Tales
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future rise of the Middle class> caused by rats on merchant ships
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first popular rebellion led by Wat Tyler
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It was fought between the house of the York and the house of Lancaster. It won.
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Beginning of the reinassance
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He died when he was very young
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he was handsome>he was destined for religion>difensor fidei>Act of supremacy=head of the church
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Book of the common prayer
He was protestant -
Also known as Nine Day Queen
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She executed lots of protestants
She was really intollerant -
known as the vergin queen>there was a period of peace>people loved her>she won against the Invencible Armada
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he was a poet who excelled in the dramatic genres such as comedies, tragedies and historical plays
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2 parliaments
lord in Ireland
gunpowder plot
Pilgrims fathers -
Absolute monarch
Short and long parliament
beginning of the civil war -
known as lord protector >Commonwealth
puritanism=closing of theatres -
Restoration
great plague
great fire of london -
Catholic
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With William of Orange and his Life Mary,daughter of James 2;
Bill of rights >•toleration act
act of settlement -
•need for realism ( ordinary people)
• chronological sequence of events
•datails
•novelty of the stories -
•No more feudalism
•black death
innovazione agricolture ( heavy pluough, 3 field sistem, energy producing devices)
•surplus food= growth of the population)
•middle class merged with aristocracy -
Act of union = union of the crown,so we can talk about Great Britain
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The first Hannoverian king
"alien king"
parlamentary monarchy -
•born in 1660 in london
•presbiterian
•writer and business man
•author of Robinson Crusoe=
▪︎realistic novel
▪︎it seemed an autobiography
▪︎shipwrecked on a desert island
▪︎survivor
▪︎Friday -
•1667 Ireland
•priest
•Household of William Temple
•satirical workshop
•"the battle of the books"
•"tale of Drapier's letters"
• "a modest proposal
•gulliver's travels
▪︎novel in 4 books
▪︎he mixed fantastic and the Real
▪︎utopian tale
▪︎pessimism -
Jacobite ribellion with Charles Edward
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•theatres were reopened
•rebuilding of London (Christopher Wren)
•heirs of the Roman Empire
•neoclassicism
•upper class women (salons) -
Epharaim chambers ( Cyclopaedia)
Johnson (quotations)
(Alexander pope) -
british empire
