England Notes Location Places Interaction Prime Meridian Buckingham Palace Magna Carta

1. England Notes LocationPlacesInteraction Prime Meridian Buckingham Palace Magna Carta Thames River Parliament Deforestation Chunnel Westminster Abby Industrial Revolution Stonehenge MovementRegionPeople Battle of Hastings 1066 British Empire Queen Elizabeth II Anglo Saxon migration British Isles Prime Minister Feudalism Winston Churchill Elizabeth I Henry VIII William the Conquer

2. Prime Meridian The Prime Meridian – the worlds most famous line of longitude. Royal Observatory Greenwich England

3. River Thames(pronounced TEMZ)

6. Chunnel

8. Stonehenge

9. Anglo Saxon Migration

10. Westminster Abby

11. 1066 The Battle of Hastings • Last time England was successfully invaded by a foreign power.

12. William the Conqueror • Lead his Norman army across the English Channel to successfully invade England.

13. Feudalism • Political System in which powerful lords owned most of the land. Generic plan of a mediaeval manor; open-field strip farming, some enclosures, triennial crop rotation, demesne and manse, common woodland, pasturage and meadow

14. Magna Carta • Historic document that limited the power of the English King signed in 1215. An Englishcharter originally issued in 1215. Magna Carta was the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today.

15. Parliament • England's representative lawmaking body whose members are elected or appointed (in some cases, they inherit the position)

16. Henry VIII (8th) Henry VIII is famous for having been married six times. He wielded perhaps the most formidable power of any English monarch and brought about the English Reformation. Many significant pieces of legislation were enacted during Henry VIII's reign. They included the several Acts which severed the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church and established the king as the supreme head of the Church in England.

17. Queen Elizabeth Daughter of Henry VIII (from his 2nd wife Anne Boleyn), ruled England for 45 years through a glorious & golden age. England became a major power under her rule. Portrait of Elizabeth to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), depicted in the background. Elizabeth's hand rests on the globe, symbolising her international power.

18. Buckingham Palace

19. England

20. Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution which began in Britain marked a major turning point in human social history. Manual labor based economies began to be replaced by ones dominated by industry and the manufacture of machinery.

21. British Empire • “the sun never set’s on the British Empire” • Thanks to the Royal navy, England ruled & controlled ¼ of the worlds population. This colonial rule spread English culture & laws to the rest of the world.

22. Winston Churchill • Prime minister of England during WWII, responsible for preserving and defending democracy & freedom in Europe.

23. Elizabeth II

24. Gordon Browncurrent Prime Minister

27. British Isles