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12/02/2012

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What two countries make up the British Isles?
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Ireland and United Kingdom
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What are the four divisions of the UK?
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England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
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What is the capital of Ireland?
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Dublin
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What is the capital of the UK?
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London
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What seperates the British Isles from the rest of Europe?
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The English Channel
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By the 800's, who had conquered much of England?
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Vikings
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What do Norway, Sweden, and Denmark make up?
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Scandinavia
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What two names were given to the Vikings?
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Danes and Norse
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Who united the Anglo-Saxons and forced the Vikings out?
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King Alfred
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Who spread Christianity throughout Europe by constructing monaseries?
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Pope Gregory
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Monks were responsible for 2 out of 5 things. What were they?
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teaching and hospitals
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Who did Gregory 8th anger? Which led to?
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Henry 4th. Concordat of Worms.
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Who ordered the first census in Europe and what was it called?
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William the Conqueror, Domesday Book
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In 1215, at a meadow called Runnymede, who was forced to sign the MAgna Carta?
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King John
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What is the 6th ammendment?
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Trial by Jury
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What is the 5th amendment?
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Eminent Domain
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What was Queen Mary's nickname?
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Bloody Mary
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What was Queen Elizabeth's nickname?
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Virgin Queen
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What state was named after Queen Elizabeth?
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Virginia
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What are the 2 reasons Spain attacked England in 1588?
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1. Tried to force England back into caholic Church 2. English seadogs were attacking Spanish treasure ships in the new world
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Who led the defeat of the Armada and was the 1st Englishman to sail around the world?
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Sir Francis Drake
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What was the plague that swept across Europe and Asia in the 1300s?
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Black Death
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Where did Black Death come from?
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fleas of black rats
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How many Europeans died fo Black Death?
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38 million
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Who is the god of war and leader of NOrse gods?
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Odin
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What is the god of thunder?
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Thor
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What did Viking warriors believe happened if they died in battle?
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they went to live with Odin in valhallal
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What gods were Wednesday and Thursday named for?
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Odin and Thor
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Who was the first explorer from England to come to North America?
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John Cabot
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What was the 1st permanent english settlement in 1607?
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Jamestown, VA
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When did The Colonies declare independence from Great Britain? (George 3rd was king)
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July 4, 1776
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Where was the first battle of the American Revolution?
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Lexington and Concord, MT 1775
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Where and when did the Revolutionary War end? (WE WON!)
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Yorktown, VA 1781
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What was the second war between America and Great Britain called?
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the War of 1812
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Who wrote the Caterbury Tales and was the first to write in English rater than Latin and French?
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Chaucer
Term
Whose most famous works were Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet?
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William Shakespeare
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Who wrote Leviathan and said "Humans are naturally selfish and violent and cannot be treusted to make decisions on their own."- believed monarchy was the best form of government?
Definition
Thomas Hobbes
Term
Went on to say that it was the government's responsibility to protect these rights- his work was used in the Declaration of Independence and the BIll of Rights for the US?
Definition
John Locke
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Who established Law of Gravitation?
Definition
Sir Isaac Newton
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Who developed the Scientific Method?
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Francis Bacon
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