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Stone age marks a period of prehistory in which humans used primitive stone tools.
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A group of neolithic immigrants arrived from Europe , settled down and started to cultivate the land.
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During Iron age , people across much of Europe , Asia and parts of Africa , began making tools and weapons from iron and steel.
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The Celts were a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe that shared a similar language , religious beliefs, traditions and culture.
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a new extraordinary people entered the history of the western world.
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Between about 900 and 500 BC The Celts crossed the narrow English Channel and settled in peace in many parts of Britain.
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His first landed in Britain on August 26th , 55 BCE , Ceasar took with him only two legions , and achieved little beyond a landing on the coast of Kent.
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was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years , it was built by the Romans army on the oders of the emperor Hadrian.
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The departure of the Romans in 410 AD left the island undefended against the invasions of the Angles and Saxons from Germany
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The Anglo-Saxon invaders colonised northwards and westwards, pushing the celts to the fringes of Britain, mainly to Cornwall, Wales and Scottland .
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Saxon king Edward the Confessor died.
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Harold Godwinson was chosen , but the throne was also claimed by his cousin William , Duke of Normandy , who defeated Harold at the battle of Hastings and was crowned king of England with the name of William I.
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in the same year, the Normans unifield England , gradually took control of Wales and Ireland and introduced the feudal system of nobles , knights and serfs.
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With the signing o the Magna Carta in 1215 feudalism began its slow decline .
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The Hundred Years War with France (1337/1453)
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England experienced the terrible Black Death , struggles for power and a series of wars.
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The Wars of the Roses , (1455-1485), between the York and the Lancaster, which resulted in a new royal house - The Tudors
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Henry Tudor , Duke of Richmond, won the final battle at Bosworth (1485) , and ascended the throne as Henry VII
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Henry VIII , gained fame for his six marriages in search of male heir. When the Pope did not allow him to divorce and remarry , Henry split with the Catholic church and had Parliament appoint him Head of the Protestant Church of England , he dissolved Catholic monasteries and confiscated their lands and possessions.
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Elizabeth I , Henry VIII's daughter, ascended the throne in 1558 and reigned untill 1603. Her reign was perhaps the most glorious era for Britain , with explorations, colonisation, victory in war and growing world importance as a trading nation.