This is Angela O'Dell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

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Welcome to episode 28, the American Revolution from the world history point of view. In our last episode I told you the story of what happened in America's history

leading up to the Revolutionary War, the war in which the American colonies won their independence from the British Empire.

I also told you about the French and Indian War that was a war between the British and the French to figure out who had more control in North America.

It was after that war that the relationship between the British Empire and her American colonies, well, it began to fall apart.

I told you that story in our last episode from the viewpoint of American history,

but the whole story includes many more details that have to be seen from the world history point of view.

This is what I'm going to do in this podcast episode.

The French and Indian War was actually just another battle in a much, much bigger disagreement between France and England that had been going on for hundreds of years.

Pause the podcast for a moment and find England and France on a globe or a world map.

Look carefully at how close they are geographically.

They are very close neighbors, aren't they?

Well, between the years 1688 and 1815,

France and England were almost constantly in warfare against each other.

This period is called the Second

Hundred Years War and although it was not one long war it was full of

clashing and battling and various conflicts between the two countries.

As a side note, it was called the second 100 years war because, well, there had been another

one, a couple of centuries earlier, where they had just been battling for over a hundred years.

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