Englands history is long, it all started about 4500 years before christ, farmers in England began to clear up the forest and started their farms where they grew a variety of crops and tended their cattle. The 400s was the fall of the Roman rulers and the islands were invaded by Germanic peoples. The Normans took over in 1066 and was replaced in the 1400s by the royal house of Tudor. From the late 1600s did the English Monarchs win support in parliament to push through their decisions. the uk was formed in 1700s when England, Scotland and Wales came together in a union. The industrial revolution of the 1700s made the economy to be very good. The British built a colonial empire that on several continents. But under the 1900s the econmy broke down, mostly because of the 2 world wars that england was involved in.