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important information about it. The Stonehenge is considered as one of the most famous prehistoric monuments that are found around the world. It is one of the sites that are visited most often by tourists. The Stonehenge is located in Wiltshire, England. It is found on the southern side of the Salisbury Plains which are 13 km north of Salisbury. The Stonehenge is a basically a large landscape that is circular, with large standing stones. Archaeologists have divided the construction of the…

this issue. Thankfully, the Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the war. Disputes over paying the war’s expenses led to the American Revolution. The war affected the coming of the American Revolution because it led the English to increase taxes to pay for new wars, which was ultimately the straw that broke the camel's back. Something some probably did not realize is that a series of incidents occurred in the Ohio River valley leading to the war. Both the British and French claimed this area as their…

The British government passed a series of laws from 1765 to 1767 in order to ensure their political control over the colonies. In 1765, they first passed the Quartering Act which allowed soldiers to be put up in colonist’s homes at their expense, resulting in protests from the colonists. The Quartering Act took place in conjunction with the Stamp Act. The Townshend Act was then established in 1767, which furthered enraged the colonists and played a part in the start of the American Revolution.…

Jamestown, sponsored by the Virginia Company, became the first permanent English Colony in America in 1607. Settlers created numerous enterprises to generate a profit for the company, however none of their endeavors were successful. The colonist would be at constant war with the Indians who lived in the area. John Rolfe, an English settler, met with Powhatan, the Indian chief, to seek a truce. Wolfe would later marry Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas. This marriage helped establish peace among the…

Eventually, he became appointed as the Assistant Lexicographer on the New English Dictionary that was in preparation, and later on he returned to Oxford once more, this time as a professor (Doughan). During this time, he not only advanced his career as a writer, but also bore children with Edith, writing the children Christmas…

Starting as early as the fifteenth century, European powers had been extending their reach all over the world and “discovering” new lands. However, to their dismay, these lands were already inhabited by countless groups of indigenous peoples. It did not take long for the colonizers to utilize these groups by enslavement and taking their resources and land. This practice of colonialism carried on throughout the centuries until breaking up in the mid twentieth century. As a result of such…

and considered themselves as separate from England. This ideology of independence drove England to place more restrictions on the colonists. As a result of these constraints, the colonists justifiably reacted by revolting against British authority. It is understandable why the colonists reacted in such a way, as their rights were seized from them more and more with each act that Parliament placed upon them. Most of these laws were made only to benefit England, while taking away from colonies.…

The Difference in the Puritans God and the Native Americans God Everyone wonders or questions who their God is, and their culture influences them as to who they believe their God is. This is very true with the Puritans and the Native Americans, Iroquois and Navajo. Both Puritans and Native Americans believe in very different Gods. The Puritans believe there is only one God, who they can learn of his ways from the Bible, and The Native Americans believe in spiritual beings, which exist in…

citizens had reached a near unbearable high, to lessen the pain on England, they began to tax the colonies.These taxes cause many hardships for the colonists and unintentionally planted the seeds for a revolution. The first of these notable taxes was the Sugar Act beginning in 1764 sugar, molasses, and many imports from outside of England were taxed. In 1733 an act called the Molasses act was passed, it was unsuccessful as England did little to enforce the law, causing many of the colonists to…

It was in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, after the Great Plague had devastated England, that Hermann the Irascible, nicknamed also the Wise, sat on the British throne. The Mortal Sickness had swept away the entire Royal Family, unto the third and fourth generations, and thus it came to pass that Hermann the Fourteenth of Saxe-Drachsen-Wachtelstein, who had stood thirtieth in the order of succession, found himself one day ruler of the British dominions within and beyond the seas. He…