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Who lived there for about four hundred years

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Celts or Britains

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Eventually developed into the English language

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Anglo-Saxons

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Defeated the fierce Viking invaders called the Danes and set England on the road to becoming a strong nation with just laws a written history and a powerful navy

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Alfred the great

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From Normandy,France, invaded England,won the battle of Hastings is victory was called Norman conquest,became the king of England

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William the conqueror

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One of the most important events of the Middle Ages

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Magna Carta

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Englands first official representative assembly

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Parliament

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First person translated of the entire bible to English

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John Wycliffe

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Produced the first printed version of the English New Testament

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William Tyndall

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Published the first printed version of the entire English Bible

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Miles Coverdale

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Who Ruled from 1509 to 1547

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King Henry VII

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Became the first explorer of any nation to reach North America and he claimed North America for England

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John Cabot

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The Daughter of Henry VIII

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Queen Elizabeth I

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First Englishman to sail around the world

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Sir Francis Drake

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Founded the lost Colony at Roanoke Island

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Queen Elizabeth’s fleets

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Spanish Armada

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The years that followed are defeat of the Spanish Armada

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Elizabethan Age

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One of the greatest writers of all time,wrote many famous plays including Julius Caesar,Hamlet,andRomeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare

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The seventeenth century England

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Age of the puritans

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They realized that Christians should live holy lives and not act,dress, and think just like the world,Englishmen who felt this way,wanted to purify the Church of England

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Puritans

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Wanted to separate entirely from the Church of England

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Separatists

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The king who ruled after Queen Elizabeth,ruled 1603 to 1625, in 1611 scholars completed Authorized Version of the Bible,best loved and most widely used English translation of God’s word ever produced

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King James the I

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One group of separatists sailed for the New world from England and became known to the world

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Pilgrims

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The son of King James I,was even harder on Parliament

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King Charles I

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Loyal to the King’s policies and the Round heads who thought the King should obey the law of the land,

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Oliver Cromwell

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Set up a government called Commonwealth
Round Heads
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The son of Charles I on the throne
King Charles the II
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A great poet,wrote Paradise Lost which tells about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
John Milton
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A poor tinker mender of pots and pans, wrote one of the most beloved books of all times Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
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Discovered the law of gravity
Sir Isaac Newton
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Devised the scientific method
Francis Bacon
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Wrote the first English science book
William Gilbert
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Discovered the circulation of blood in the body
William Harvey
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The father of Modern chemistry
Robert Boyle
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The astronomer who predicted Halley’s Comet
Edmund Halley
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First man to see a living cell
Robert Hooke
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A disease that started in East and spread rapidly over Europe
Plague
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For three days the flames raged uncontrollably
Great Fire
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Designed thirty five new churches and rebuilt Londons famous St. Paul’s cathedral
Sir Christopher Wren
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The English offered the crown to,James son in law and daughter
William and Mary of orange
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Was written and agreed on
English Bill of Rights
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England became
Constitutional Monarchy
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After the death of King William,came to the throne
Queen Anne
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Was perhaps the most powerful voice in England,Englands most famous preacher
George Whitefield
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Is one of the most famous men in English history
John Wesley
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Lasted through the rest of the eighteenth century
Wesleyan Revival
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Father of the Sunday School movement
Robert Raikes
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In 1792 modern missions began in England
William Carey
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One famous English explorer,Father of modern missions
James cook
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Introduced machines constructed on scientific principles to do work
Age of Industry
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The biblical teaching that God expects all work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God
Protestant work ethic
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Had perfected the steam engine the textile factories
James Watt
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Natural resources that can be used for producing other goods
Raw materials
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England fought the the French and Indian war
King George II
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England lost the thirteenth New world colonies in America’s War for Independence
King George the III
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Ruled England for almost sixty four years,she wanted to be good
Queen Victoria
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The years of Queen Victoria of her rule
Victorian age
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Britain was called
Work shop of the world
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Were two famous poets
Robert Browning and Alfred
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Wrote many short stories and novels that are still enjoyed today
Charles Dickens
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Wrote stories set in the many interesting colonies of the British Empire
Rudyard Kipling
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Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin
Victorian Scientists
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Means doing kind deeds for others
Benevolence
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A man of great faith and prayer,started orphanages
George muller
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Started the salvation Army to help people in the slums of London
William Booth
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Started the modern nursing profession and opened the first school for nurses in England
Florence Nightingale

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