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Period: 700 BCE to 43 BCE
Celtic Occupation
iron working--> allowed improvements in agriculture
Historical figure: Queen Boudicca fought against the Romans. Referentiality: Women of power -
Period: 43 BCE to 400
Roman Occupation
Literacy: Reading and writing only for the Upper Classes conformed by tradesmen and landowners.
Design of roads improved communication and trading -
Period: 400 to 793
Anglo Saxon Occupation
The Witan, antecedent of the parliamentary regime
Division of lands in shires
Introduction of new technologies in agriculture
Each district: “manors”
Catholicism introduced by St. Augustine. Institutionalization of Faith. Concentration of religious power in the monarchy.
Celtic Church: Interested in the practice of faith of the common people
Power of Christian Church
Monasteries: Antecedents of Educational system
"Anglo Saxon Chronicle" An ecclesiastical history of English people by Bede. -
Period: 793 to 1064
Viking Occupation
"The Danelaw" as an antecedent of the British Legal System. -
Period: 1064 to 1077
Norman Occupation
Last invasion by William the Conqueror
Feudal system: A concentration of lands and owners in a few hands and with this a new stratification of society.
Anglo-norman language displaced old English
Doomsday book: statistic document -
1086
Domesday Book ( Great Survey)
William's strategy include a survey in order to know who owned lands and how much those lands worth.
Objectives:
_To plan economy
_To know the produce
_To stimate taxes -
1215
Magna Carta (Great Charter)
Beginning of personal rights and social classes.
Paid army.
Freemen : _Had protection from his officers
_Right to fair legal trial -
1337
100 Year War (1337 - 1453)
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1348
Black Plague (Black Death)
Lasted from 1348 - 1349
Less than half of the population survived.
Shortage of labour: _End of serfdom ( no more vassals, because now they got paid)
_Money for labour
Rise of Farmers as Yeomen ( Rich farmers or Terratenientes) -
May 30, 1381
Peasant's Revolt
Leader: Wat Tyler (Protestant)
Asked for fair treatment (Payment, rigths, nice living conditions)
Lasted 4 weeks. -
1455
The War Of Roses (1455 - 1485)
A dispute for the throne between the houses of Lancaster and York.
Ended on the Battle of Bosworth where Henry Tudor defeated Richard III, and married a Yorkist girl called Elizabeth.