Grade 5 Old World History and Geography Chapter 13 Checkup

Robert Raikes

"Father of the Sunday School Movement"

John Bunyan

Author of Pilgrim's Progress

William the Conqueror

Became king after his victory at the Battle of Hastings

Oliver Cromwell

Defeated the king in the Civil War; ruled during the Commonwealth

William Harvey

Discovered the circulation of blood

Mother

England is called the "_____________________________ Country" of the United States.

William and Mary

England's first constitutional monarchs

Parliament

England's first official representative assembly

Charles I

Executed by the Roundheads

William Carey

Father of Modern Missions

Robert Boyle

Father of modern chemistry

Lollards

Followers of John Wycliffe

Roundheads

Fought on the side of Parliament in the English Civil War

Sir Walter Raleigh

Founded "The Lost Colony" at Roanoke Island

Anglo-Saxons

Germanic tribes that took control of Britain after the fall of Rome

George III

King of England during the America's War for Independence

Winston Churchill

Led Great Britain to victory during WWII

Cavaliers

Loyal to Charles I in the English Civil War

John Knox

Mary, Queen of Scots feared my prayers more than she feared an army

Ireland

The country known as the Emerald Isle The country known for its peat bogs and potato famine.

Scotland

The country known for its bagpipes, tartan, and lochs.

Ireland

The country known for its peat bogs and potato famine. The country known as the Emerald Isle

Pennines

The mountain range known as the "backbone of England"

Separatists

Wanted to separate from the Church of England

Magna Carta (1215)

What document granted Englishmen certain rights and started England on its way to representative government? What year was this document signed?

Eurasia

What is the world's largest landmass?

the plague; the great fire of London

What two calamities that occurred during the reign of Charles II

biblical heritage

What was the most important gift that the British settlers brought to America?

Ireland

Which country in the British Isles is NOT a part of the United Kingdom?

Great Britain

Which island is the eighth largest in the world?

Sir Christopher Wren

architect of 35 churches and of the rebuilt St. Paul's Cathedral

James I

authorized a new translation of the Bible in 1611. WHO AM I?

George Whitefield

became England's most famous preacher

Alfred the Great

defeated the Vikings and began the English nation

Elizabeth I

during my reign the Spanish Armada was defeated and the English became a people of "the Book." WHO AM I?

James Cook

famous 18th century English explorer

Sir Francis Drake

first Englishman to sail around the world

John Cabot

first modern explorer to reach the North America which he claimed for England

George Miller

founded many orphanges

William Booth

founded the Salvation Army

John Milton

great poet of the Puritan Age; wrote Paradise Lost

John Wesley

great revivalist of the Wesleyan revival

Celts

inhabitants of the British Isles conquered by the Romans

George II

king during the French and Indian War

modernism

liberalism; the false idea that the Bible does not mean what it says and that men must use their own reason to find the truth

Shannon

longest river in the British Isles

Charles Darwin

made the idea of evolution popular

Amy Carmichael

missionary from Northern Ireland to India

raw material

natural resource used to produce other goods

William Shakespeare

one of the greatest writers of all times; wrote Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet among many other plays

James Watt

perfected the steam engine

William Tyndale

produced the first printed version of the English New Testament

Miles Coverdale

published the first printed version of the entire English Bible

Victoria

queen who said as a child, "I will be good."

Margaret Thatcher

returned Great Britain to the Protestant Work Ethic

Florence Nightingale

started the modern nursing profession

Protestant work ethic

the biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God

Evolution

the false idea that men descended from animals

John Wycliffe

the first man to translate the entire Bible into English

welfare state

the idea that it is the responsibility of the government to take care of people "from the cradle to the grave"

England

the largest country in the United Kingdom

Chunnel

the underwater tunnel that links Great Britain and France

Industrial Revolution

time period when machines began to do much of the work once done by men and animals

Puritans

wanted to purify the Church of England

Sir Isaac Newton

what great English scientist discovered the law of gravity?

Ural Mountains, Caucasus Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea

what mountain ranges and bodies of water separate Europe from Asia?

William Gilbert

wrote the first English science book