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What was Newcastle called before it got the name Newcastle?
monkchester
Why did the region around Birmingham Manchester and Newcastle became a center of industry?
Coal was plentiful in those areas.
List Roman settlements in England?
* Alcester - (Aluana) * Bath - (Aquae Sulis) * Caerleon - (Isca Augusta) * Caernarfon - (Segontium) * Caerwent - (Venta Silurum) * Canterbury - (Durovernum Cantiacorum) * Carlisle - (Luguvalium) * Carmarthen - (Moridunum) * Colchester - (Camulodunum) * Corbridge - (Coria) * Chichester - (Noviomagus Regnorum. Noviomagus means New Market and is also the Roman place name of a town in the Netherlands, now called Nijmegen) * Chester - (Deva Victrix) * Cirencester - (Corinium) * Dover - (Portus Dubris) * Dorchester - (Durnovaria) * Exeter - (Isca Dumnoniorum) * Gloucester - (Glevum) * Leicester - (Ratae Corieltauvorum) * London - (Londinium) * Lincoln - (Lindum Colonia) * Manchester - (Mamucium) * Newcastle upon Tyne - (Pons Aelius) * Northwich - (Condate) * St Albans - (Verulamium) * Towcester - (Lactodorum) * Whitchurch - (Mediolanum) * Winchester - (Venta Belgarum)
Australia was founded as a British colony for?
Australia, or New South Wales as the eastern coast was then known, was originally a penal colony, meaning it was a colony for convicts from Great Britain. Australia was first colonised by the British in order to relieve the overly full British prisons. However, only relatively small parts of Australia were used as penal settlements. Indigenous Australians inhabited the rest of the continent as well. As well as Sydney (the first settlement in New South Wakes), convict colonies were begun in Victoria, Moreton Bay (Queensland), Hobart and Newcastle. The colony of South Australia was never a penal settlement. Swan River (Perth) began as a free settlement, but convicts were sent there later as free labour.
Who was the monarch of Great Britain in the sixteen hundreds?
There were more than one (these are the years they rules, not their life): Elizabeth I - until 1603 James I (of England) - 1603 -1625 (he was also James I of Ireland and James VI of Scotland) Charles I - 1625-1649 Between 1649 and 1660, there was no monarchy. Instead there was the Commonwealth of England. The monarchy was restored in 1660. Charles II - 1660-1685 James II (of England) - 1685-1688 Mary II & William III - 1689-1702 (Mary died 1694 and William continue alone)
