London Flashcards
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Basic info
it is the capital city of UK, it is located in England, which is one of the parts of UK, the others are Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
History -
London started as a small town, Romans built it, and Romans got into England thanks to an invasion, at that time Britain was just vast plains. Julius Ceasar invaded it, but he failed to conquer the Britannia natives. 100 years later Romans invaded natives once again, they brought around 40,000 soldiers with war elephants, it was a fight they couldn’t afford to lose and they started building a small town later named Londinium. They had to start by building a bridge because they needed supplies. They chose the location because of river Thames, this bridge could open up just like today’s Tower Bridge, so ships could go through, 20 years later Queen Boudica attacked the Londinium with an army, they it burned to the ground, Romans fought back. Londinium was theirs again, but they had to start over again, but they bounced back quite quickly and Londinium started becoming a City with political, market and law value. It faced lots of problems such as a Great fire and bombarding by Nazis during World war 2.
Todays London
Todays London is a big city, that people like visiting, its biggest problem is knife crime and high cost of living. Reasons for knife crime are usually only two either robbery or an assault, these two are the most statistically common.
If I have more time to kill I will speak about
GDP , economic situation or brexit, inflation
