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Can We Guess Which State You Live in Based on Your Life Skills?
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By: Zoe Samuel
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The history of England is long and fascinating. Its oldest settlements date back many thousands of years to the neolithic age when the indigenous people of Britain built monuments like Stonehenge and Woodhenge. Most modern people think of English history starting in 1066 AD, with the Norman conquest of England, and that isn't by accident. Norman historians wanted to put their cultural stamp on England, since they, a Franco-Nordic group from across the English Channel, weren't English, so they invented a new way of looking at British history. Before 1066 AD was dubbed "Time Immemorial" and considered an ancient past when nothing particularly important happened. The truth is far more fascinating. In addition to the Anglo-Saxon settlements in England, pre-Norman England had huge settlements of Danes, and before the Anglo-Saxons there were the Romans who established several of the major cities we think of today when we imagine England.
The post-conquest England we know was subject to wars with neighbors Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It had a bloody civil war resulting in the dominance of the Tudor Dynasty, which gave England Queen Elizabeth, the British Navy, and the beginning of the colonization of the New World. It also suffered plagues and produced the spark of the Industrial Revolution. With all of this history underfoot, which historical English town should you call home? Take this quiz and find out!
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