The document discusses the connection between past and present civilizations in England. It describes how England was first inhabited thousands of years ago and has seen many changes in its geography, social systems, and population over time. England transitioned from a tribal system to a unified state and saw the rise of industrialization and urbanization in recent centuries. While London and other major cities grew, new social classes and a multi-cultural society emerged in modern England.

1. The Connection between Past
Civilizations and Present Lives
Vincent Nicholas
6A

2. England in the past
• CHANGES IN GEOGRAPHICAL ELEMENT
• English is located on the continent of Europe
• Area now called England was first inhabited by
modern humans during the Paleolithic period,
but the name England is derived from the Angles,
which is one of the Germanic tribes who settled
there in the 5th century and 6th. England became
a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of
Discovery which began in the 15th century,
English has influenced a significant cultural and
legal to various parts of the world.

3. • Preliminary evidence relating to human presence in the
area now known as England was inhabited by Homo
antecessor estimated around 780,000 years ago. The
oldest proto-human skeleton discovered in the UK and
probably derived from 500,000 years ago. Modern
humans are known to have inhabited the territory of
England in Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent
settlements newly formed in the last 6000 years. After
the end of the last ice age, only large mammals such as
mammoths, bison and ancient rhinoceros inhabiting
this region. Roughly 11,000 years ago, when the ice
sheets began to recede, humans re-inhabit the UK.
Genetic studies indicate that they came from the
northern part of the Iberian Peninsula. When sea level
was lower than it is today, the island of Great united
with the island of Ireland and Eurasia. But as sea levels
rise, Britain separated from Ireland 10,000 years ago,
and then also separated from Eurasia two millennia
later.

4. Europe in the 13 century
Stone henge

5. England in present
• Currently London is the largest metropolitan area
in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone
in the European Union based on the total area.
UK residents amounts to about 53 million people,
or about 84% of the total population of the
United Kingdom, largely concentrated in London,
South East England, and regions of conurbations
in the Midlands, Northwest, North East and
Yorkshire, each region developed as The main
industrial regions during the 19th century. While
the prairie region are outside the big cities.

6. Ferris wheel
Big Ben

7. In the past
• CHANGES IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS ELEMENT
• British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world
history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution) divided into a
caste system called the estates, with all of the most notable features of a
caste system: endogamy (marriage only within the same group), and the
hereditary transmission of occupation, social status and political
influence.Since the advent of industrialisation, this system has been in a
constant state of revision, and new factors other than birth (for example,
education) are now a greater part of creating identity in Britain.
• Although definitions of social class in the United Kingdom vary and are
highly controversial, most are influenced by factors of wealth, occupation
and education. Until recently the Parliament of the United Kingdom was
organised on a class basis, with the House of Lords representing the
hereditary upper class and the House of Commons representing everyone
else, and the British monarch is usually viewed as being at the top of the
social class structure

8. Social class in Victorian

9. Social in the present
• British society changed greatly during the 20th century. In 1914 only about 20% of
the population was middle class. By 1939 the figure was about 30%. In the late
20th century the number of 'blue collar' or manual workers declined rapidly but
the number of 'white collar' workers in offices and service industries increased
rapidly.
• In the 1950s large numbers of West Indians arrived in Britain. Also from the 1950s
many Asians came. In the late 20th century Britain became a multi-cultural society.
• There was another change in British society. In the late 20th century divorce and
single parent families became much more common.
• Also, in the 1950s young people had significant disposable income for the first
time. A distinct 'youth culture' emerged, first with teddy boys, then in the 1960s
with mods and rockers and in the late 1970s with punks and also with rock music.
A revolution in music was led by Elvis Presley and Bill Hayley.