CM Britanny : CM2 vocab and notions

independence

self-reliance and freedom from outside control of an other country

autonomy

still part of the country but it has more powers to make decisions in certains areas

Picts

stone age hunter-gatherers; lived in present day Scotland; Romans built a wall to keep them out

Angles and Saxons

2 germanic people
invaded the island of britain in the 5th Century
Angles gave their name to England

Normans

Originally Vikings , settled in Northern France (Frankish kingdom) , Founded the duchy of Normandy and later conquered England

The UK parliament

House of Commons + House of Lords
legislative power

Members of Parliament (MPs)

only house of the Commons
elected directly by the people ok the UK to represent them in the parliament
general election every 5years
The party with the most MPs is the one that forms a government

an executive

the government , the grp of people who have executive power (grp of minister and prime minister)
generally in the UK the leader of the most important party in the parliament become the Prime Minister

BC/AD

Before Christ/Anno Domini(after JC)

large-scale

involving large numbers or a large area; extensive.

to have a claim

a right to have something or get something from someone

an heir

a person who has the legal right to receive the property/power of s.o. who dies

settler

one of the first people to live in a new community

to carry out

complete, accomplish, perform

policy

a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a political party

to superimpose

to lay or place something over something else