Seminar 2. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Get ready to take part in the quiz competition on the topic of the seminar.. II. Answer the questions below.

Seminar 2

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Get ready to take part in the quiz competition on the topic of the seminar.

I. Glossary (to be learned by heart): sovereign state, pagans, to conquer, conquest, border, tribe, Heptarchy, invasion, to annex, dynasty, heir (to the Crown), illegitimate child, throne, monarch, colony, overseas exploration, empire, anti-colonial movement, commonwealth, voluntary association.

II. Answer the questions below.

1.What is the difference in usage between the words ‘British’ and ‘English’?

2.What countries are located on the British Isles? What are the relations among them?

3.What were the earliest known people to invade the British Isles?

4.How did the Roman invasion influence the country? Which trace of the Romans can be seen in the country today?

5.What is the Heptarchy?

6.What happened at the end of the 9^th – the beginning of the 10^th centuries?

7.Who was William the Conqueror and what was his role in the formation of Britain?

8.When were the Welsh kingdoms first united under one king?

9.Why is the heir to the British thrown given the titles of the Price of Wales?

10.How did it happen that the Welsh dynasty of Tudors gained the English thrown?

11.What did the Act of Union adopted in 1536 state?

12.Why did the first attempts to annex Scotland (before the 13^th c) fail?

13.What English king managed to invade Scotland in 1296?

14.What made Mary Stuart a threat for the English thrown in the times of Elisabeth I?

15.How did it happen that the Scottish dynasty of Stuarts became English kings?

16.What is a Union of Crowns?

17.What did the Act of Union of 1707 mean?

18.When did Henry II proclaim himself Lord of Ireland?

19.Which country was England’s first important colony? When did it happen?

20.What’s the difference between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland?

21.What led to the fall of the British Empire?

22.What is the difference between the British Empire and the Commonwealth?

⇐ Предыдущая 1 234 Следующая ⇒