uk-history 英美文化的课件.ppt

English History English History The Middle Ages The 16th Century The 17th Century The 18th Century The 19th Century The 20th Century The Middle Ages Before the Middle Ages The Middle Ages The Crusades The power of the Church “Eternal damnation” and “excommunicating” The Magna Carta King John The One Hundred Years War with France Joan of Arc Return The 16th Century The Wars of the Roses The Changing Europe Henry VIII The Protestant Church Bloody Mary The Reign of Queen Elizabeth I Literature Adventure on the sea (Sir Francis Drake) The Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes) Return The 17th Century The Civil War King Charles I “Divine Right” “Roundheads” “Cavaliers” The Restoration King Charles II King James II The Glorious Revolution Return The 20th Century A century of disturbance, riot, decline, and disgraceful failure Waking of the working classes The “suffragette” movement Trouble in Ireland The First World War The once solid British Empire collapsed The multi-lateral British Commonwealth of Nations The economic depression in the 1930s The 20th Century The Second World War The Battle of Britain Independence of most of the colonies “second fiddle” The United Nations and the “three worlds” The “Cold War” between Russia and the West New discoveries and new techniques Motor-car, the wireless, the airplane, nuclear war, space rockets, men on the moon, entertainment like gramophone, cinema, radio and television, etc. The “Welfare State” and the new “permissive society” Return Before the Middle Ages The Stone Age hunters and gatherers of 10,000 years ago The Neolithic agriculturalists Stonehenge (2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C.) Celtic peoples (700 B.C.) from north-western Europe The Romans The pagan Angles, Saxons and Jutes The Viking raiders from Scandinavia (9th – 11th century) The Norman Conquest (1066) Back The Romans First landing in 55 B.C. led by Julius Caesar Complete control over the land in 43 A.D. Leaving in around 410 A.D. Roman influence Introduction of Christianity The