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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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| What is the capital of the UK? |
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| What seperates the British Isles from the rest of Europe? |
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| By the 800's, who had conquered much of England? |
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| What do Norway, Sweden, and Denmark make up? |
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| What two names were given to the Vikings? |
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| Who united the Anglo-Saxons and forced the Vikings out? |
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| Who spread Christianity throughout Europe by constructing monaseries? |
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| Monks were responsible for 2 out of 5 things. What were they? |
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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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| What is the 6th ammendment? |
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| What is the 5th amendment? |
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| What was Queen Mary's nickname? |
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| What was Queen Elizabeth's nickname? |
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| What state was named after Queen Elizabeth? |
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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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| What was the plague that swept across Europe and Asia in the 1300s? |
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| Where did Black Death come from? |
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| How many Europeans died fo Black Death? |
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| Who is the god of war and leader of NOrse gods? |
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| What is the god of thunder? |
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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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| Who was the first explorer from England to come to North America? |
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| What was the 1st permanent english settlement in 1607? |
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| When did The Colonies declare independence from Great Britain? (George 3rd was king) |
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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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| What was the second war between America and Great Britain called? |
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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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| Whose most famous works were Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet? |
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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? |
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| 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? |
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| Who established Law of Gravitation? |
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| Who developed the Scientific Method? |
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