Chapter 11: The Leaving of Liverpool

Question 1

The last 3 miles of the river [the River Mersey] form a sheltered, deepwater harbor, and in 1207, King John granted permission for a town to be built there, which was called __________. Originally, __________ was the port that connected __________ with England.

Answer 1

Liverpool; Liverpool; Ireland

Question 2

When the __________ came to England in C.E. 43, they found the ________ making salt by pouring ______ on hot ________ and scraping off the crystals that formed.

Answer 2

Romans; Britons; brine; charcoal

Question 3

__________ (a commercial center by the mouth of the Mersey) was on the River Dee, which had an estuary that provided a deepwater port similar to that of the ________.

Answer 3

Chester; Mersey

Question 4

In the Middle Ages, yellow flowers of various species were _______ and kept in earthen pots and beaten to extract a juice to color _______ that had lost its ________.

Answer 4

salted; butter; carotene

Question 5

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ________ sauces became extremely popular. In England, anchovy sauce became known as ________.

Answer 5

anchovy; ketchup (or “katchup,” “catsup”)

Question 6

The ________ is an American plant, brought to Europe by __________ _________.

Answer 6

tomato; Hernán Cortés

Question 7

Despite Cheshire’s growing production, ________ still had that same dangerous dependence on ________ salt that had worried ________ _________. Much of England’s foreign salt came from England’s principal enemy, _______.

Answer 7

England; foreign; Queen Elizabeth; France