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The rising of the water separated Great Britain from Europe where the peoples lived by hunting and fishing -
Early years a group of Neolithic immigrants settled and began to farm the land and live in tribes -
The Celts who came from central Europe, began to settle in Great Britain and Ireland where they mingled with indigenous peoples -
The Romans built a large road network such as Hadrian's Wall to control and defend the area from Scottish tribes -
The island was defenseless against the invasions of the Angles and the Saxons because the Romans had left -
The Angles and Saxons colonized the north and west, sending the Celts to Cornwall, Wales and Scotland
Later, on the death of King Edward the Confessor, the successor was Hrold Godwinson who unfortunately was defeated by his cousin William in the Battle of Hastings because he claimed the throne. -
The Normans unified England, controlling Wales and Ireland and introducing the feudal system but with the signing of the Magna Carta, a document that limited the king's powers, the decline of feudalism began. -
In these years there was the Black Plague, the Hundred Years War with France (1337-1453) and the Wars of the Roses between York and the Lancastrians (the Tudors) -
Duke of Richmond, Henry won the battle at Bosworth and ascended the throne as Henry VII; he son of him, Henry VIII, was famous for 6 marriages in search of a male heir and because he got himself nominated head of the English Protestant church since the pope did not divorce him -
Henry VIII's daughter, Elizabeth I, reigned for a long time until 1603; her reign was a landmark for Great Britain