Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Great Britain
- The British Empire
- The largest empire in the history
- Large areas of North America, Australia, Africa and Asia
- How did it become so big?
- It's army and navy
- Rapid technological advances
- Motives behind Britain's expansion
- trade
- economics
- politics
- ambition
- religion
- adventure
- Tradition an Change
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Head of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- represent the country
- signs all bills before they become law
- constitutional monarchy governed by a parliamentary system
- monarch holds no real politic power
- the role of parliament
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- devolution
- Monarchy makes the UK seem backward
- Monarch is very expensive
- But the monarchy attracts huge numbers of visitors to the UK
- countries
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
- The UK
- North developed differently from the South
- devolution
- UK only joined the EU in 1973 because they feard to lose the sovereignty of the nation state
- Brexit in 2016
- Commonwealth
- association of 54 nations
- Great Britain + Northern Ireland