ENGLAND 



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ENGLAND 



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OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON ENGLAND 



Outline 



I. Location and Sle 



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(4) 



(5) 



(1) 



(2) 



(3) 



(4) 



(1) Latitude, about the same as that of 



Labrador . 



(2) Longitude 



(a) Meridian of Greenwich 

 Situation with relation to Continent 

 (a) Dividing waters 

 Actual size 



(a) Greatest length, 360 miles 



(b) Greatest breadth, 320 miles 



(c) Area, 50,933 square miles 

 Comparative size 



II. Physical Feature* 



Coast 



(a) Length 



(b) Character 

 Surface characteristics 



(a) Absence of mountains 



(b) Highest hills 



(c) The fertile plain region 



(d) Effect of surface features on 



history 

 Rivers 



(a) Shortness 



(b) Great commercial importance 

 Lakes 



III. Climate 



(1) Comparatively even character 

 (a) Reasons for lack of extremes 



(2) Abundant rainfall 



(3) The characteristic fogs 



IV. The People 

 Characteristics which have made 



them powerful 

 Racial strains 

 Density of population 

 (a) Most densely populated country 

 Rural and urban proportion 

 Great cities 

 (6) Religion 



(a) The State Church 



(b) Other denominations 



(c) The great cathedrals 

 Education 



(a) Recent organization 



1. The influence of Dickens 



(b) Elementary schools 

 Secondary schools 



The universities -. 



V. Industries 

 (1) Manufacturing the chief industry 



(a) Reasons for preeminence 



(b) Chief centers 



.(c) Important products 



(1) 



(2) 

 (3) 



(4) 

 (5) 



(7) 



(c) 

 (d) 



1. Textiles 



2. Metal goods 



(2) Mining 



(a) Coal 



(b) Iron 



(c) Close relation to manufacturing 



( 3 ) Agriculture 



(a) Proportion of land cultivated 



(b) Chief crops 



(c) System of land-tenure 



(d) Stock-raising 



(4) Fisheries . 



(a) Location 



(b) Catch 



(c) Only foodstuff not imported 



VI. History 



(1) The beginnings 



(a) Earliest inhabitants 



(b) The Celts 



(2) The Roman occupation 



(a) Julius Caesar 



(b) Later generals 



(c) Impress on the country 



(3) Invading hordes 



(a) Scots and Picts 



(b) Jutes, Angles and Saxons 



(4) Introduction of Christianity 



(5) The Heptarchy 



(6) The first king of England 



(7) Struggle with the Danes 

 (a) Alfred the Great 



(8) The Norman Conquest 



(a) William the Conqueror 



(9) Feudalism 



(10) Conflict with the Church 



(11) Magna Charta 



(12) Hundred Years' War 



(13) Conflict with Scotland 



(14) Wars of the Roses 



(15) The Reformation in England 



(a) Henry VIII 



(b) Edward VI 



(c) Mary 



(d) Elizabeth 



1. Firm establishment of Protes- 

 tantism 



(16) King and Parliament 



(a) The "divine right of kings" 



(b) Civil War 



(c) The Commonwealth 



(d) Restoration 



(17) Establishment of responsible gov- 



ernment 



(18) Union with Scotland 

 See GREAT BRITAIN 



