","The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group formed by Germanic people that moved from mainland Europe to Britain. The Anglo-Saxons are responsible for the majority of the modern English language as well as the legal system and general society in England today.","Cumberland was succeeded by Cumbria in 1974. Cumberland was located in the North West, with its borders touching Northumberland, County Durham, Westmorland (Cumbria), Lancashire and the Scottish Counties of Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire. It was part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde in the Hen Ogledd or “Old North”, people spoke the language of Brittonic now called Cumbric.","This historic county of Yorkshire (County of York) is located in Northern England and is the largest in the whole England and the United Kingdom. Full of large stretches of countryside including well known Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and the Peak District it is now surprise it was nicknamed “God’s own Country”.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet.","
Circa (c.)
A Latin word that literally means "about" or "around" as in c. 1500. The other forms ca or ca. are also used throughout the histories.
","Poll Tax by definition is a "tax, of uniform amount levied on each individual, or 'head' and dates back to 14th century England. Poll Tax has continued in many forms through to modern history. The Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379 led to the Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising in 1381. In the United States a similar tax based on the right to vote was struck down in 1964 with the 24th Amendment.","Many of our last names in use today, cannot be found before the 17th and 18th century since the majority of them were changed. By example, the famed William Shakespeare, spelt his last name, Shakespeare, Shakespere, Shakespear, Shakspere, and Shaxspere.","The Hundred Rolls, Hundredorum Rolls or Rotuli Hundredorum was a census of England and Wales often referred to the year 1273, but were actually taken from 1255-1284. These rolls are often referred to as the second Domesday Book.","Buckinghamshire (Bucks) has existed since it was a subdivision of the kingdom of Mercia (585 – 919), on the south east area is it bordered by Greater London, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. With good access routes to London it has some densely populated areas along the border with Greater London, some are served by the London Underground.","The Domesday Book, our earliest public record, is a unique survey of the value and ownership of lands and resources in late 11th century England. The record was compiled in 1086-1087, a mere twenty years after the Norman Conquest, at the order of William the Conqueror.","The Pipe Rolls were the written records of the crown revenue and expenditures for one financial year, which ran from Michaelmas, a Christian festival celebrated on September 29, to Michaelmas, as well as records of payments to the government and debts that were owed to the crown.","Suffolk is in East Anglia on the East side of England, bordered by Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, it has a coast line in the North Sea. It has extensive farming and arable land with areas of outstanding natural beauty with its hill and the wetland area of the Broads. With many archeology finds over the years from eras like the Stone Age, Bronze Age and the famous Sutton Hoo one of England’s most significant Anglo-Saxon finds. ","Founded in 1788, New South Wales (NSW) was the first penal colony for England. British explorer, Captain James Cook, first discovered the east coast of Australia while attempting to examine the planet Venus in order to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun in 1770, he first named it New Wales, then later New South Wales.","From its founding until the last prison ship set sail in 1868, Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia and over 75,000 convicts were transported there.","The First Fleet departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","It is generally thought that Norse Viking, Leif Erikson, was the first European to arrive on the island of Newfoundland, now the easternmost province of Canada. He arrived there in the year 1000 and established L'Anse aux Meadows, the only known Viking settlement in North America outside of Greenland. This site remains a historical site in Canada and it is located on the north coast of the island.","Wiltshire (Wilts.) is located in the South West of England bordered by Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Known for its pre-roman archeology, the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied and built settlements on the hills and the downland. Stonehenge and Avebury are one of the largest tourist attractions for this reason. Rich history in the area covers many centuries with local nicknames and records in the Domesday Survey.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","Scotland or Gaelic: Alba or Alban is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. As the northernmost country of the UK, its land mass covers more than a third of the island of Great Britain"," Tuscany is in northwest and central Italy. The region of Tuscany was named after the Etruscans, who were the original inhabitants of the area in the 3rd and 4th centuries BC. 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