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The earliest inhabitants of Britain for whom there is compelling evidence are bands of hunters living in Southern and Western England during the Hoxnian interglacial (about 380,000 to 400,000 BC). (Some very recent excavations of stone tools on the East Anglian coastline suggest human presence as early as 700,000 years ago). However, as temperatures again dropped, Britain was abandoned. Although there are signs of human habitation during later interglacials, it was not until roughly 14,000 years ago that occupation became permanent. Some of the first things that Mesolithic Britons did, were to wipe out the lion, the elephant, and the hippopotamus, and to domesticate the dog. By about 6000 BC the melting of the ice sheet had created the English …show more content…

Around 2500 BC the Beaker people (originally from Spain) began to immigrate to Britain and brought metal-working skills with them. They made gold, copper and bronze implements and ornaments. It was during the Bronze age (after 2500 BC) that circles of standing stones began to be erected in Britain. By far the most famous is Stonehenge, but at least 900 stone circles survived long enough to be recorded. Many stone circles were erected within existing "henges" - (i.e. circular earthworks consisting of a ditch and bank surrounding a central table). The ditch was dug and the earthen bank built at Stonehenge far earlier - around 3000 BC. The stones were erected (and repeatedly moved) between 2500 BC and 1600 BC. By 55 BC the Romans had tried to take Britain but unsuccessfully failed, as Julius Caesar retreated. Then one year later Julius Caesar tried again to invade Brtain and succeeded. The Roman occupation only lasted a few centuries by 400 AD the British freed the British Isles from Roman rule. By 1000 AD the British Isles were separated into three kingdoms England, Whales, and Scotland. England united Whales and England they also controlled what is now Ireland but Scotland was still it's own country finally in 1707 the Act of Union was made where the English Parliament united England and Scotland as a single country creating Great Britain. By 1750 the British were a strong empire with colonies in the Americas, their main treasure was the Thirteenth Colonies. In 1756 the French and Indian War was declared in America, which made a war of French Folk, and an Indian tribe against the British Colonies and Britain and some helpful Indians. In 1763 Britain and France signed a treaty called the Treaty Of Paris which ended the war giving Britain most of France's American lands, but the colonists were not happy and then in 1775 the colonists rebelled their leader was George Washington, the

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