Письменно переведите следующий текст. HISTORY OF LONDON The Romans were the first to settle and occupy the Celtic fortress of Londinium. London soon became a busy commercial and administrative settle¬ment. The Roman Empire ...

Письменно переведите следующий текст. HISTORY OF LONDON The Romans were the first to settle and occupy the Celtic fortress of Londinium. London soon became a busy commercial and administrative settle¬ment. The Roman Empire fell in the 5th century. London has maintained its trading activity. In the 9th century Danish invaders destroyed much of the city. They were followed by the Saxons led by King Alfred the Great, who entered the city in 886. The Danes remained a powerful force in England, however, and it was not until the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042, that civic stability was re-established, to be cemented by the Nor¬man Conquest in 1066. In 1665, London had been devastated first by the Great Plague, and then by the Fire of London, which destroyed most of the city the following year. During the recon¬struction of the city, following the original street pat¬tern, the architect Sir Christopher Wren was given re¬sponsibility for the design of a number of State-funded buildings, including St. Paul's Cathedral. In the 19th century London's population began to rise still more rapidly: it increased sixfold over the century as a whole, thanks to influx from all over the British Isles, from Britain's colonies, and from continental Eu¬rope, The Industrial Revolution was creating huge num¬bers of jobs, but never enough to satisfy the hopes of all the poor people who came to the capital. The novels of Charles Dickens tell us about the social problems of that period. The First World War had little effect on London, but the Depression that followed in the late 1920s and early 1930s hit the whole country, including the capital. There were hunger marches and riots. London was to pay far more dearly during World War II. The intensive bomb¬ing of London (The Blitz) in 1940-1941 took the lives of 10,000 people and left 17,000 injured. Countless historic buildings were damaged, including the Houses of Par¬liament. After the war London was to re-emerge as a radically different city. The docks had been so severely damaged that reconstruction, a very expensive process, was not reasonable. By the end of the 1950s most of the war dam¬age had been repaired.