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1、TheSocietyandCultureofMajorEnglish-SpeakingCountriesUK（TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland）INTRODUCTIONn1.TheCommonwealthofNationsn2.EuropeanUnionsince1973n3.G7:theGroupofSevenlargedevelopedeconomies->G8->G20n4.Population:1in20areofnon-Europeane
2、thnicity,amultiracialsociety.n5.Onenationoffourparts:nEnglandnScotlandnWalesnNorthernIrelandn6.Capital:Londonninthesouthofthecountrynthelargestcityinthecountrynoneofthethreemajorinternationalfinancialcentersintheworld(LondonStockExchange)npolitical,economica
3、ndculturalcenterntheonlycitytohostOlympicGamesthreetimes:1908,1948,2012HISTORYEnglandn1.AHighlyUrbanizedCountry:80%incities,2%agriculture.n2.TheLargestofthefournations,andthelargestpopulationn3.AHistoryofInvasion:nBeforethefirstCenturyAD:tribalkingdomsofCelt
4、icpeoplen43AD:RomanInvasion(EnglandandWales)nTheAngles,theSaxons,theJutesnKingArthurandHisKnightsofRoundTablenAngle-land->Englandn8thCentury:VikingsnKingAlfredtheGreatn1066:TheNormanConquestnNormans,WilliamofNormandy,theBattleofHastings,KingHaroldnTheTowerof
5、Londonn1640s：CivilWar,CharlesI,OliverCromwell,“LordProtector”n1688:GloriousRevolution(BloodlessRevolution),JamesII,“WilliamofOrange”andhiswifeMaryScotlandn1.Thesecondlargestofthefournations,bothinpopulationandingeographicalarea.n2.themostruggedpartoftheUKn3.
6、North:TheHighlandsnSouth:TheSouthernUplandsnMiddle:Lowlandsn4.Glasgow:TheLargestcitynEdinburgh:Capitaln5.Hadrian’sWall136ADRomen6.SixcenturyADnBritishCelts:aroundGlasgownScots:SouthwestnScottishCelts(Picts):Highlands,Gaelicn7.Anglo-Scottishconflict:Macbeth,W
7、illiamWallace’suprisingin1298n8.TheBattleofBannockburn:RoberttheBruce1314n9.1603JamesIn10.1707ScotlandjoinedtheUnion,electingitsmembersofparliamenttotheLondonparliament.n11.CultureandScience:nTelephone:Bell,WalterScott,RobertBurnsnLouisStevenson:DrJekyllandM
8、r.HydeWalesn1.TheThirdLargestn2.Capital:Cardiffn3.Language:Welshn4.Heroes:LlywelynapGrufuddnOwain,Glyndwern5.1536WalesjoinedUKNorthernIrelandn1.Ulstern2.TheSmallestofthefournations,bothinareaand
