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Alfred the great

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Married princess from Murcia
Became king of Wessex and, 871
Defeated, Guthrum, baptised him
Viewed as overlord
Built burs and schools

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Ethelred, the unready

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Saint Brices day massacre
Married Emma of Normandy

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Cnut

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Son of Swainfork beard
married Emma of Normandy
Became king of Norway in 1028
North Sea empire

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Emma of normandy

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married Ethelred, the unready, and cnut
Had children with both secured their line of succession

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William I

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first English king
Norman/French
Introduce Domesday book created shires
feudal system

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Henry the second

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angevin empire, England and Wales, Ireland and France

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King, John

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Lost most of the land
Magna Carta

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100yrs war

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England versus France
First phase England wins
After winning Agincourt England loses everything apart from callis

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Renaissance

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religion

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Huguenots moved to escape religious persecution

Ulster plantation is happen because James the first wanted to have control over the Catholics

Removal of Highlanders happen due to religious reasons as they were Catholics, and they wanted to shift from land

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War

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English conflict with Spain was a big driver for English exploration in the New World

American revolutionary war brought independence for America from British monarchy in control common sense by Thomas Paine

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ideas

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Liberty, a big drive in the American revolution, was the pursuit of liberty

Democracy, no taxation without representation

White supremacy, the slave trade was based on this

Transportation is punishment Australia as a deterrent to send people to

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economic resources

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Slavery was driven by economic ideas/resources and free labour

Tax. The stamp act was a major reason for the American revolution.

Huguenots brought new skills to England to help change the productivity of the country

Colonies in the New World new products that could be salt tobacco sugar

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Thomas paine

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encourages growth and independence

No taxation without representation

Common sense

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Mary Bryant

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Became a criminal and was sentenced to 7 years transportation to Australia

She would work on the new prison colony after her sentence was finished, then choose to stay or return.
She stole a ship and managed to escape.

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Technology

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England was able to colonise America duty superior weaponry to the native people

The only way the slave trade good app emoji to advances in shipbuilding, which made further exploration possible

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Government

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Elizabeth Baxley voyages, and sent out rally to colonise New World

The government accepted the Huguenots is refugees

Ulster plantation in Highland clearances both government decisions

America revolution happen directly as a result of US not having representation in parliament

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The 19th century, 1800s

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19
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religion

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Jewish people arrived in England in eighteen hundreds to escape religious persecution elsewhere

irish people were isolated when they arrive to Britain as they were catholic and the majority of Britain were Protestant

1857 uprising in India was motivated by sepoys feeling like their religious views are not respected, pig fat, cow, fat

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War

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War and conflict helped to achieve British control of India. People like Robert Clive for soldiers.

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ideas

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What supremacy a big factor in this period with British actions in both India and Africa based on idea, different races were inferior

colonialism/empire

Industrialisation

Social Darwinism, the idea that some weight of a stronger and better than others

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economic resources

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British control of Indian Africa was based largely on the resources and raw materials that are available there

Irish people treated badly enough, because there was a feeling that there was not enough jobs

Cecil Rhodes, motivated by money and getting control is time in Africa

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Robert Clive

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Layed the foundation of the east Indian company

won the Battle of Plassey

In return for supporting the Nawab Mir Jafar as ruler of Bengal, Clive was granted a jagir

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Warren, Harding

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Poor, but had a good education

Went to India to work for EIC

He served with Clive, but didn’t like the harsh treatment and resigned

1769 he returned and made 220,000 and became governor general of Bengal

Accused of corruption in a trial that lasted five years

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Queen Victoria

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Empress of India first, and only monarch to ever do that

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Samuel, AJ, Crowther

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captured and salt to slavery when he was 12, but rescued by British authorities

Taken to Sierra Leone

studied at a college set up train missionaries became a teacher

Went back to England, trying to become a priest
Became the Bishop of west Africa

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Cecil Rhodes

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Diamond mines in Africa

28
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Technology

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Britain was able to build such a large empire, as it was one of the first countries to properly industrialise

Developed weaponry gave the British superiority over the place as they were going to

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Government

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The east Indian company ruled India on behalf of the British government

After 1857 uprising, the British government took direct control of India and became the British Raj

People like Cecil Rhodes were able to become the governing forces of African countries

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20th century to now

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31
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Religion

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islamophobia had been a major feature of anti-immigrant feeling in the 20th century

The partition of India ended up happening on religious lines against the hopes of people like gandhi

Suez crisis nasser was an Arab nationalist