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1、Study Guide for Great Britain the United States of AmericaPAGE 1Dark Ages - period of time in which the feudal system with the Catholic Church controlled EnglandKing John - signed the Magna Charta in 1215 English giving common people rightsQueen Mary - a catholic queen who was beheaded Renaissance -
2、 period of time in which there was a re-awakening of knowledgeWilliam Shakespeare - a world famous English play writer Winston Churchill - the Prime Minister of England during World War IIPrincess Diane - Princess of Wales who married Prince Charles Margret Thatcher - a woman who was Prime Minister
3、of Great Britain Treaty of Paris - the agreement at the end of World War I Buckingham Palace - the residency of the royal household in London Some People:Socrates - a Greek philosopher who orally taught thinking skills and died for his new ideasPlato - a Greek philosopher who wrote the concepts of h
4、is teacher and himself Aristotle - a Greek philosopher who established the classification system for all living thingsIsaac Newton - a early scientist who discovered the law of gravityJames Watt - invented the steam engineKarl Marx - a political scientist who believed that the government should serv
5、e the peopleSigmund Freud - the father of modern psychiatry Charles Darwin - an English man who developed the theory of evolutionAlbert Einstein - a scientist who developed the theory of relativityMax Planck - developed the Quantum Theory, which describes the behavior of atoms Mad Cow Disease is a s
6、ickness adversely affecting UKs beef exports in the 1990sIn the United Kingdom the new money or currency used by the British people is the pound.Industrial Revolution is that period of time near the end of the 19th century when machines began doing much of the heavy labor for mankind. The process of
7、 people moving to cities for jobs is called urbanization.One might say the English culture is characterized by good manners, conservatism, and exclusion.Black Plague is a serious sickness of the Middle Ages causing the death of 1/3 of the English population. There has been an influx of immigrants fr
8、om the Commonwealth nations. TheUK has many kinds of people from their Commonwealth Nations During the Elizabethan Age in 1611 the King James Bible was translated into common English of that time.Oxford and Harvard Universities are the oldest educational institutions in the United Kingdom.BBC stands for British Broadcasting Company which is part of the live entertainment programs in the UK.