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1. Be prepared to name the two major political parties in Britain.

( Conservative Party and the Labor Party ) 2. Be prepared to name one minor party that has representation in Parliament.( Conservative and Unionist Party Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Sinn Fein )

3. Be prepared to name the three divisions of the central government. (The Monarch (The Crown) The Parliament The Cabinet ) 4. Does Britain have a single, written and codified, constitution? (no)

5. Which is, typically, larger, a county or a city?(county)

1. Which three countries are at the top of Brittan's export recipients' list?

(US Germany France)

2. What are the top three categories of products that Brittan exports? (medical petrol car )

3. Who was the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?( Thatcher)

4. Be prepared to associate the names of the UK capitals with their respective countries.(England –London, Scotland-Edinburgh, Northern Ireland-Belfast)

1. Having become king, Richard, together with Philip (Of France), agreed to go _on_ _the____third____crusade_____.

The Crusades were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns between 1095 and 1291, in which the western kingdoms sought to gain control of _Holyland___

2. Robin Hood became a popular folk figure starting in the medieval

period continuing through modern literature, films, and television.

1. The Norman invasion of England in 1066 is described through the images of the Bayeux Tapestry. (贝叶挂毯)

2. Following The battle of Stamford Bridge was a very important battle which, significantly, changed England. That battle is known as the Battle of Hastings

 Who were the Germanic tribes that invaded the south and east of Great Britain shortly after the Romans left England?（Anglo,Saxons,Jute）

 King Alfred is noted for his defense of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings, becoming the only English monarch still to be accorded the epithet \"the Great\".

1. Feudalism describes a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations

among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs.

2. The Nineteen year period between King Henry I and King Henry II, characterized by civil war and unsettled government, was known as _the_ anarchy 3. King Henry II was the first to use the title “king of England \" (as opposed to \"King of the English\").

4. In many ways, King Henry II is best remembered for the assassination, which he never directly ordered, of a boy, who was later canonized and revered as a martyr against secular interference in God's church

1. Which war marked the end of the English Middle Ages? The hundred years’ war (the wars of roses)

2. Tudor England is best characterized as a/an (Limited/Absolute) Monarchy.( Absolute)

1. The black death swept the western world in the later half of the 1340’s

and killed one half of the population of England.

2. The combination of the enforcement of the Poll Tax and the Statute of

Labors, itself a response to the labor shortage that resulted from the events in

the late 1340’s, resulted in what event Peasants’ Revolt

I: 1 V: 5 X: 10 L: 50 C: 100 D: 500 M: 1000

 What material, predominantly, replaced stone for tool and weapon making between 2,200 and 700 BCE? ( Bronze)

 What culture is estimated to have arrived in Britain apx. 700 BCE, and still exists today? ( The Celts culture)

 What city is sometimes called “The Eternal City”? ( Rome)

 What is the name of the event which occurred from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times, which started in England? (The Industrial Revolution)

 Is the “Magna Carta” signed by King John in legal effect today? (yes/no) Why/Why not? ( No. It was rejected by most of the barons and was legally valid for no more than three months.)