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Test 12
Chapters 10-13; Continent Study 3
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History
5th Grade
11/20/2011

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"Father of the Sunday School Movement"
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Robert Raikes
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A singing poet
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bard
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Defeated by Queen Elizabeth's fleet
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Spanish Armada
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England's principal river
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Thames
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Europe's most important inland waterway
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Rhine River
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Explorer who discovered Australia
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Captain Cook
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Followed by the Lollards
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John Wycliffe
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Founder of the modern nursing profession
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Florence Nightingale
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Great Britain is the ____ largest island in the world
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eighth
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He began the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther
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Highest spot in Europe
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Mt. Elbrus
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Invention that helped the Romans build strong, lasting structures
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concrete
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Largest country in the world
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Russia
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Made the false teaching of evolution popular
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Charles Darwin
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Man who perfected the steam engine
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James Watt
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Most famous English preacher of the Wesleyan Revival
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George Whitfield
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Only continent with no large desert
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Europe
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Prime Minister of England during World War II
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister who worked to return Great Britain to the Protestant work ethic.
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Margaret Thatcher
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The Biblical teaching that God expects all people to work
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Protestant Work Ethic
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The British colonists' most important gift to the New World
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Biblical heritage
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The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with war elephants
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Hannibal
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The Roman emperor who first allowed freedom of worship
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Constantine
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The architect who helped to rebuild London after the great fire
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Sir Christopher Wren
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The author of the Illiad and Odyssey
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Homer
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The capital of England
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London
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The capital of Ireland
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Dublin
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The capital of Northern Ireland
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Belfast
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The capital of Scotland
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Edinburgh
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The capital of Wales
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Cardiff
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The city Rome fought in the Punic Wars
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Carthage
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The country known as the "Emerald Isle"
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Ireland
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The document signed in 1215 that established the tradition that the monarch is limited by law
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Magna Carta
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The efforts to take Jerusalem back from the Turks
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Crusades
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The empire England belonged to for 400 years in ancient times
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Rome
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The false idea that the Bible does not mean what it says
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modernism
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The first Englishman to sail around the world
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Sir Francis Drake
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The first emperor of the Roman Empire
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Augustus Caesar
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The first explorer to reach North America in modern times
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John Cabot
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The first great missionary of the Christian church
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Paul
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The freed slave who wrote many fables
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Aesop
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The greatest writer of the Elizabethan Age
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William Shakespeare
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The greek word meaning "marketplace"
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agora
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The inventor of the printing press
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Johann Gutenberg
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The largest country on the island of Great Britain
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England
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The leader of the Roundheads
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Oliver Cromwell
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The longest river in the British Isles
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Shannon
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The man who produced the first printed version of the English Bible
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Miles Coverdale
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The man who produced the first translation of the entire Bible in English
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John Wycliffe
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The missionary known as the "Father of Modern Missions"
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William Carey
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The mountain chain known as the "Backbone of England"
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Pennines
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The people who came from England to the New World for freeom to worship
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pilgrims
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The queen who promised, "I will be good"
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Queen Victoria
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The time when machinery began to do the work formerly done by men and animals
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Age of Industry
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The victory of William the Conqueror
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the Norman Conquest
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The word that comes from two words meaning "people" and "rule"
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democracy
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The world's largest landmass
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Eurasia
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What monks in monostaries copied and preserved
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the Scriptures
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Where the Protestant Reformation began
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Germany
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World's largest lake
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Caspian Sea
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