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The Middle Ages
The 16th century
The 17th century
The 18th century
The 19 century
The 20th century
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The Middle Ages
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A civil war lasting 30 years
between the House of Lancaster and the House of York
What is the Wars of the Roses?
The Middle Ages
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The language of the church and educated people.
What is Latin?
The Middle Ages
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A document from 1215
that took away the absolute power of the king.
What is Magna Carta?
The Middle Ages
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A sudden shortage of workers from 1348 and forward
improved conditions for the poor.
What is the Black Death?
The Middle Ages
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A disease that killed about one third
of the population in 1348
What is the Black Death?
The 16th century
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A woman of great abilities who insisted that she ”was married to England” and so
never married a man.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
The 16th century
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A geographical place close to Protestant England
where Catholicism remained and remains strong.
What is Ireland?
The 16th century
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The king who established the Protestant Church of England.
Who was Henry VIII?
The 16th century
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A famous actor who owned a theatre called ”The Globe” in London.
Who was William Shakespeare?
The 16th century
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A famous person who wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets
before dying in 1616.
Who was William Shakespeare?
The 17th century
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An event in which the Parliament asked the Dutch regent William and his wife Mary
to become king and queen of England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
The 17th century
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The leader of the Parliament, who took power during the civil war 1642-49
and had the king Charles I beheaded in 1649.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
The 17th century
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As queen Elizabeth I’s only relative
he became king upon her death in 1603,
and so was king of both England and Scotland.
Who was King James I?
The 17th century
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An authorised version from 1611 of a very popular book
that almost all homes possessed.
What is the King James Bible?
The 17th century
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A terrible event in 1666 when more than 10,000 houses burned in London.
What was the Great Fire of London?
The 18th century
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A period of time in the 18th century when political and scientific
ideas of freedom, democracy, and reason spread very fast.
What is the Enlightenment?
The 18th century
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The author of a very important scientific book in which he explained gravitation and
the three laws of motion.
Who was Isaac Newton?
The 18th century
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The combination of the English and the Scottish flag after the Union between the
two kingdoms in 1707.
What is the Union Jack?
The 18th century
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A period in which the use of steam power created a strong increase in production,
in this way making Great Britain one of the richest nations on Earth.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The 18th century
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A very important event in 1776 in which certain colonies
refused to pay taxes to the British government because they wanted to be
independent.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The 19th century
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Ruling for a very long time (1837-1901) she was the leader
of the largest empire in history, covering all of India,
Australia and large parts of Africa.
Who was Queen Victoria?
The 19th century
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A very strict division of the British society based on people’s background, wealth
and education.
What is the class system?
The 19th century
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A certain workforce that was much used by the employers
because their age made them very cheap.
What was child labour?
The 19th century
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A scientist who shocked the Victorians because he scientifically proved that all
living things have evolved through natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
The 19th century
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As self-proclaimed Emperor of France he was defeated
by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo in 1815.
Who was Napoleon?
The 20th century
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The southern part of a geographical unity, close to England, which in 1922 was
divided in two parts, because of religious and political differences.
What is the Irish Free State?
The 20th century
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A period of unemployment and economic crisis starting in 1929 and lasting almost
to the Second World War.
What is the Great Depression?
The 20th century
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As the controversial Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 she privatised
many public services such as the telephones and the railways.
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
The 20th century
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A period lasting from 1914-18 in which many people were killed and many more
lost their belief in the future.
What is the First World War?
The 20th century
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A political party which represent the interests of the working classes.
What is the Labour Party?
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A group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean with a population of only 2,932,
which in 1992 caused a war between Argentina and the UK.
What are the Falkland Islands?
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The third-largest political party in the UK. Together with the Conservatives they
govern the UK.
Who are the Liberal Democrats?
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An union of many European countries, originally established in 1957.
What is the EU?