HISTORIAN

1-      Look for the timeline of the Britain.

2-      Locate the following items within the different periods of history.

·         Stonehenge

·         Hadrian’s wall

·         William Wallace (Brave Heart)

·         Merlin/King Arthur Legend

·         Robin Hood

·         Shakespeare

·         Irish Rebellion

·         American Colonies Independence

·         Dickens: Oliver Twist

·         Industrial Revolution

·         Commonwealth colonies

·         Science explosion

·         World War I

·         World War II

·         European Union

3-      Select and save relevant information (graphics and texts)

4-      Use that information, expressed with your own words, to insert them as pictures and captions in the Power Point slides which have graphic timeline background (3^rd to 13^th). The third slide is an example of what you have to do.

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Stonehenge: Stonehenge is a megalithic monument, cromlech type of late Neolithic, near Amesbury, in Wiltshire, England, about eight miles and a half north of Salisbury. Stonehenge consists of large stone blocks in four circles. Is supposed to be used as a religious temple, monument or astronomical observatory that was used to predict the seasons.

Hadrian’s Wall: Hadrian's Wall is a former defensive construction of the island of Britain, built between 122-132 by Emperor Hadrian to defend the territory Briton. Stretched over 117 km from the Gulf of Solway in the west to the estuary of the River Tyne in the east.

William Wallace: Sir William Wallace (Elderslie, 12701 - London, 23 August 1305) It was a Scottish Soldier of Welsh descent, who were heading to their country occupancy española del Rey against Edward I of England in las war of independence in Scotland.

Merlin/ Kin Arthur Legend: King Arthur (in Welsh and English: Arthur) is a prominent character in European literature, especially English and French, which is represented as the ideal monarch, both in war and in peace. His story belongs primarily to the legend and literature, although it is discussed whether Arthur, or a similar character in which it had based the legend really existed. gentlemen in England trying out a sword from his prison. Legend has it that he who would liberate the king of England and in charge of unifying all the kingdoms of the island. In this sial was a sword is, that all the knights tried removing it, but Arthur, without even gentleman who manages release, and his true identity is revealed. Shortly after Arthur loses his sword during a battle. The Merlin accompanied him to a lake at the bottom there was a castle in which lived a witch named Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. This woman kept a wonderful sword, Excalibur.

Robin Hood: Robin Hood was a hero and outlaw archer medieval English. According to legend, Robin Hood was a man named Robin or Robin Longstride Locksley.Era big heart and lived outlaws hiding in Sherwood Forest and Barnsdale, near the city of Nottingham. He was skilled, defender of the poor and fighting against the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John Lackland, who used the police to illegally monopolize the wealth of the nobles who opposed them and give them to the poor people. In medieval England, anyone who opposed the royal edicts was considered an outlaw.

Shakespeare: William Shakespeare was a dramatist, poet and English actor. Sometimes known as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare is considered the greatest writer in the English language and one of the most famous in world literature. Shakespeare's works have been translated into the major languages ​​and his plays are still performed worldwide.

Irish Rebellion: Irish Rebellion, an uprising which owed ​​its origin to the Society of United Irishmen, which was inspired by the American and French revolutions. Members of both societies were middle class. The main objectives of the companies were parliamentary reform (based on universal male suffrage and full Catholic emancipation) and the removal of British rule in Ireland.

During 1795 an alliance between radical predominantly Presbyterian and disaffected sections of the working class radicalized Society.

American Colonies Independence: The Thirteen Colonies were British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 (Virginia) and 1733 (Georgia). They began collaborating on the Albany Congress of 1754 to demand their rights and establish a Continental Congress which declared independence in 1776 and formed the states of the United States of America.

Dickens: Oliver Twist: Charles John Huffam Dickens was a famous English novelist, one of the best known in world literature, and the principal of the Victorian era. He was a master of the narrative genre, which printed a certain dose of humor and irony, while practicing a sharp social criticism. In his work are the descriptions of people and places, both real and imagined. Sometimes used the pseudonym Boz. His best known work is "Oliver Twist".

 

Industrial Revolution: The Industrial Revolution was a historical period between the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain and the rest of continental Europe then suffer the largest set of socio-economic, technological and cultural history.

The economy based on manual labor was replaced by one dominated by industry and manufacturing. The Revolution began with the mechanization of the textile industries and the development of processes of iron. Trade expansion was favored by improved transport routes and later by the birth of the railway. The most important innovations were the steam engine and called Spinning Jenny, a powerful machine related to the textile industry. These new machines favored huge increases in production capacity.

So in the industrial revolution the amount of product increases and decreases the time in which these are carried out, giving way to mass production, because it simplifies complex tasks into several simple operations that can be performed without requiring any worker it is skilled labor, and thus lower production costs and increase the number of units produced under the same fixed cost.

Commonwealth colonies: The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organization of 54 independent member states. All members except Mozambique and Rwanda were part of the British Empire, of which the community develops.

Science explosion:

For the Smithsonian Institute in the U.S., the most important are (Source: THE WORLD)

·         The human genome

·         'Ardi', our ancestor

·         The map of the Big Bang

·         Climate change hormones

·         Water on Mars

·         Not the intelligent design

·         The solution to the conjecture Poncairé

·         Gene Therapy

·         Predicting hurricanes

A change to known promoter Spanish Eduard Punset (Source: WEEKLY XL) are:

·         Gene Therapy

·         The age of the Universe

·         Water on Mars

·         The human genome

·         The LHC particle accelerator

·         Creating life in the laboratory

·         Evolution and DNA (we are not slaves to our genetic)

·         "Ardi" our ancestor

·         The solution to the world's most difficult math problem. (Poincaré conjecture)

·         The conquest of the earth by the society (widespread use of the Internet and social networks)

World War I: The causes of World War I, which began in central Europe in late July 1914 and ended in 1918. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played a major role in the conflict as well.

The crisis came after a long and difficult series of diplomatic clashes between the Great Powers (Italy, France, Germany, the British Empire, the Empire of Austria-Hungary and Russia) over European and colonial issues in the decade before 1914 I had left the high voltage. In turn these diplomatic clashes can be traced to changes in the balance of power in Europe since 1867. The immediate cause of the war was tensions over territory in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary competed with Serbia and Russia for territory and influence in the region and left the rest of the great powers into the conflict through their various alliances and treaties.

World War II: The main causes of World War II were nationalistic issues, unresolved issues, and resentments resulting from the First World War and the interwar period in Europe, plus the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The culmination of events that led to the outbreak of the war is generally understood as the 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany and Soviet Russia.

These military aggressions are the result of decisions made by authoritarian ruling Nazi elite in Germany and by the direction of Japan's Kwantung Army. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war and / or armed resistance.

European Union: The European was created after de Second World War. It is compose by 27 different countries: These countries are:

• Austria (1995)
• Belgium (1952)
• Bulgaria (2007)
• Cyprus (2004)
• Czech Republic (2004)
• Denmark (1973)
• Estonia (2004)
• Finland (1995)
• France (1952)
• Germany (1952)
• Greece (1981)
• Hungary (2004)
• Ireland (1973)
• Italy (1952)
• Latvia (2004)
• Lithuania (2004)
• Luxembourg (1952)
• Malta (2004)
• Netherlands (1952)
• Poland (2004)
• Portugal (1986)
• Romania (2007)
• Slovakia (2004)
• Slovenia (2004)
• Spain (1986)
• Sweden (1995)
• United Kingdom (1973)