The Protestant Queen

The movie “Elizabeth, the golden age” is most about the religious war between Catholicism and Protestantism, where kingdoms were defending what they thought was the right thing to do, and to prove which the most powerful empire on Europe was.
If we start thinking about the first scene of the movie, we can realized that there was a problem inside the country because half of the it was catholic and the other half was protestant. What to do? The Queen’s consulters were telling her to kill all the catholic people who didn’t wanted to be turn protestant. This is mainly important because they could be a threat to the kingdom.
During the film we can see that the Queen was really objective with this theme she thought that no one could be murder just because they were catholic, she said “they are all English, and English people are not judged until they commit a violation to the law”. This was a wise decision, I think. She never talk about their people as “protestant people” she always said English people, my people. Spain in the other hand wanted everyone to be catholic and Queen Elizabeth was a threat to that ideal, even thought Spain, which was a powerful country, saw England as menace not because they were protestant but as a growing up kingdom.
Spain tried to invaded and conquered England, because it wanted to be the most powerful country in Europe, and used the religion as an excuse to attack. They were helped by” Mary Stuart”, who was Scotland’s Queen, and catholic too. But Spain used Mary Stuart’s ambition to be England Queen in Its own benefit. They attempted against Queen Elizabeth’s life with the support of Mary Stuart, but the attempt was just an excuse so Elizabeth would kill Mary Stuart for treason.
Her death was the perfect Excuse for Spain to Attack England, but England loose and England remained as a powerful country.
The movie was amazingly great; it showed us a powerful woman standing for her people and her country. I think that it’s a movie everyone can see and learn about English history.

"Stonehenge"

Stonehenge is a beautiful monument located in South United Kingdom. Many people I wonder for the form and reason to be of this edification.
Stonehenge calls the attention of scientists, archaeologists, writers, etc…. all of them have tried to explain the official use of those stones.

Stonehenge is not quiet young because the oldest stone in the construction is from the 3100 BC. I said this because Stonehenge was built and rebuilt many times regarding the different people who used to rule over the country, from the Anglo Saxons to the Celtics. Each one of these cultures put something new into the edification making it unique and quiet mysterious.

Since if was discovered Stonehenge have been protagonist of several digs which so far hadn’t discovered its principal function. But a few months ago a new digs, which is the first one in forty years, has discovered several bodies under the edification but all of them seems to be sick, or at least they used to be. What they have concluded it’s that Stonehenge was a sort of healing circle was people could go looking for salvation.

We can say that Stonehenge it was and it is nowadays a circle of mystery for everyone who have ever been there or at least read about it. Moreover, no one can surely say why was it made, we still see it like a beautiful monument to The United Kingdom history.

"Language evolution, Vikings and Danes"

During the process of development of England, the country was rule for different people all over. But in the south were the Danes who were up in the power until the Vikings invasion in 787 AD.
The Vikings were men of fight and rule over the south of England during the 11th century until the attack of the Anglo Saxons in 878 AD.
After the great strike back, the Danes were moved to the Northeast of England separated from the rest by the “Dane law” which was from Chester to London.
Finally the Danes were able to recover the whole south with several attacks under the influence of “Cnut”. They rule from 1016 to 1042.
The importance of this is to understand that across the years in England different cultures were raiding the country and this means that the people who stay just in the middle of the conflict was acquiring the different costumes, culture and what is important for us language.
With this I mean that English in fact is a mix of different languages and accents, but it was constantly changing because of the several wars and power changes. Because if you are going to rule over a place you will obviously pretend that everyone speak your native language. Imagine that same happening many times during a long time. The result is now of course “English”.