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? In 1707, by agreement of the English and Scottish parliaments, Scotland joined the Union.
? Then followed two rebellions in 1715 and 1745
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The Commonwealth of Nations
? an organization through which the fifty or more countries which used to be a part of that empire and maintain links.
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? The most confident of its own identity ? The second largest of the four nations,
both in population and in geographical area ? The Highlands in the north and the Southern Uplands ? The largest city is Glasgow, the capital city is Edinburgh
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? Britain history has been a history of invasions:
Celtic (750B.C.)
Roman Empire:( 55B.C.– 410) :England and Wales
Germanic(410—871): the Angles ,the Jutes and the Saxon
A Brief Introduction to the United Kingdom
Week 1 Aug, 2019
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General Picture of UK
? The full name of the country: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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developed economies (“G8”) 八国集团首脑会议 (G8 Summit) 由西方七国首 脑会议演变而来，与会八国也被称为 八国集团。 八国是指美国、英国、法国、德国、意大利、加 拿大、日本和俄罗斯。 ? A multicultural society: Christians, Muslims.
? The UK includes 4 parts within the one nation-state
? The island of Great Britain is made of England, Scotland and Wales, and Northern Island, a province on the neighboring island of Ireland.
? Cultural and economic dominance
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London
? dominant in all sorts of way
? The seat of government;
? Cultural center ? Business center ? Financial center
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Raiders from Scandinavia, the ferocious Vikings
Normans: from northern France, who were descendants of Vikings.
The next few hundred years following
the Norman invasion can be seen as a
process of joining together the various
parts of the British Isles under English
rule.
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England
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? Physically the largest of the four nations; by far the largest population
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“a complicated country with a complicated name”
? imperial past ? “the empire on which the sun
never sets” ? UK is no longer an imperial country
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Buckingham Palace
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Trafalgar Square
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Westminster
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London Tower
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Scotland
? Immigration: non-European ethnicity ? from some of those Commonwealth
countries like India or Pakistan, and the countries of Caribbean.
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? A member of the European Union; ? A member of the Group of Eight large