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5th Grade A-Hist
5th Grade History Ch. 10-13 Review
Term | Definition |
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capital of Scotland | Edinburgh |
capital of Ireland | Dublin |
capital of England | London |
capital of Wales | Cardiff |
capital of Northern Ireland | Belfast |
produced the first translation of the entire Bible into English | John Wycliffe |
first Englishman to sail around the world | Sir Francis Drake |
first modern explorer to reach North America | John Cabot |
greatest writer of the Elizabethan Age | William Shakespeare |
architect that helped rebuild London after the great fire | Sir Christopher Wren |
inventor of the printing press | Johann Gutenberg |
first great missionary of the Christian church | Paul |
Roman emperor who allowed freedom of worship | Constantine |
lived in monasteries; copied and preserved Scriptures | monks |
followers of John Wycliffe | Lollards |
began Protestant Reformation | Martin Luther |
country where Protestant Reformation began | Germany |
efforts to take back Jerusalem from the Turks | Crusades |
country not part of the United Kingdom | Ireland |
"Backbone of England" | Pennines |
principal river in England | Thames |
also known as the "Emerald Isle" | Ireland |
largest country on the island of Great Britain | England |
founder of the modern nursing profession | Florence Nightingale |
England's Prime Minister during WWII | Winston Churchill |
"Father of the Sunday School Movement" | Robert Raikes |
perfected the steam engine | James Watt |
most famous English preacher during the Wesleyan Revival | George Whitfield |
Prime Minister who worked to return Great Britain to the Protestant work ethic | Margaret Thatcher |
largest country in the world | Russia |
Europe's most important inland waterway | Rhine River |
only continenet with no large desert | Europe |
highest spot in Europe | Mt. Elbrus |
world's largest lake | Caspian Sea |
false idea that the Bible does not mean what it says | modernism |
leader who promised "I will be good" | Queen Victoria |
made popular the false idea of evoltion | Charles Darwin |
underwater tunnel connecting France and Great Britain | Chunnel |
famous Protestant reformer from Scotland | John Knox |
river that London is located on | Thames River |
leader of the Roundheads | Oliver Cromwell |
wanted to purify the Church of England | Puritans |
document that limited the English monarch to the laws of the land | Magna Carta |
eighth largest island in the world | Great Britain |
naval force that was destroyed by Queen Elisabeth's fleets | Spanish Armada |
book that changed England | Bible |
plain covered with thick grass | savanna |
"Father of Modern Missions" | William Carey |
followers were called Hussites | John Huss |
The Lollards | John Wycliffe |
invented the printing press | Johann Gutenberg |
he made it a crime to be a Christian during his reign | Nero |
famous English explorer | Captain Cook |
founded "The Lost Colony" at Roanoke Island, NC | Sir Walter Raleigh |
longest river in the British Isles | Shannon |
document signed in 1215 - monarch is limited by law | Magna Carta |