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41 Cards in this Set
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Old English Timeline
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400-1150
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Middle English timeline
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1150-1500
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Modern English timeline
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1500-present
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6500 BCE
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English channel forms, separating Britain from Eurasia
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4000 BCE
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Agricultural culture arises
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Between 4000 and 1500 BCE
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Henge monuments built
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Circa 2000 BCE
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Bell-Beaker people
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Circa 800 BCE
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Celtic culture arises
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What did the Celts call England
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Albion
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55-54 BCE
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Julius Caesar invades
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43CE- 409
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Claudius invades, conquers all of Britain for 400 years (Britain Romano)
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123 CE
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Hadrian's Wall
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367
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Anglo Saxons invade from Scandinavian peninsula, Picts from North, Dal Riata from West
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Circa 615
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Angles and Jutes conquer the whole England
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Saxon
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Essex, Wessex, Sussex
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Angles
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East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria
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Jutes
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Kent
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560-616
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The Supremacy of Ethelbert of Kent
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First Catholic king
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ETHELBERT
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Social Hierarchy
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Kindly Ask Edna To Call Cora Like Today
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8th Century
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Vikings begin to invade
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787
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Danish Raids begin
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802
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Wessex emerges supreme (taking over from kent)
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867-875
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First full-fledged Viking assault
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877
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King Alfred flees
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878
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King Alfred returns, defeats Danes, forces Guthrun to submit to Peace of Wedmore
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Latin Orthography under...
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Alfred the Great
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937
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Take back Danelaw (former Northumbria)
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1016-1042
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Cnut, Danish ruler of Northumbria, elected as king
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1042
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Edward the Confessor takes the throne
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1066
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Freaking important year. Edward the Confessor dies. Harold Godwinson succeeds him. William of Normandy and Tostig both invade. Both Tostig and Harold Godwinson die. Normans take over. England now speaks French
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1066-1150
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virtually no French words added
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1150-1200
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Some words creeping in
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1200-1250
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lots of words coming in
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1250-1400
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Explosion
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1066-1087
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William II the Conqueror
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1135-1154
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William's great-grandson, Stephen de Blois rules
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1154
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Stephen is defeated by Henry II
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1174
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Henry II forces William the Lion to recognize him as overlord
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1189
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Succeeded by Richard the Lion-Hearted (Richard I)
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1199
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Richard is succeeded by John
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