Exam Revision Keywords 10/06/23

Question 1

Significance

Answer 1

A word used to describe how important an event is/was

Question 2

Monarch

Answer 2

King or Queen

Question 3

Dynasty

Answer 3

A series of kings/queens belong to the same family

Question 4

Catholic

Answer 4

A type of Christian who views the pope as the leader of the church

Question 5

Protestant

Answer 5

A type of Christian that views Jesus as the leader of the church

Question 6

Excommunication

Answer 6

When someone is excluded from the Catholic Church and is condemned to hell

Question 7

Reformation

Answer 7

A religious revolution causing many countries to become Protestant

Question 8

Heretic

Answer 8

A person who follows a different religion to the majority of the country

Question 9

Divine rights of kings

Answer 9

The rights that kings believe they have saying they were sent by God to rule

Question 10

Absolute power

Answer 10

The complete control over everyone and everything kings in England had before the magma carta

Question 11

Tyranny

Answer 11

The act of ruling a kingdom without help or adivise

Question 12

Parliament

Answer 12

The institution that represents Englands people in charge of debating and making/changing laws

Question 13

Puritan

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An extreme Protestant

Question 14

Tax

Answer 14

Money that people have to pay to the government that is used to run the country and fight wars

Question 15

Petition

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A document that requests change from someone in power that is usually signed by many people

Question 16

Civil war

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A war between people within the same country

Question 17

Traitor

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Some one who commits a crime against a king or leader

Question 18

Industrial

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Relating to goods made in factories that are often made cheaply and efficiently

Question 19

Revolution

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A period of great change when an old system is replaced

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Population boom

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A time when a countries population grows quickly due to high birth rate, low death rate of immigration

Question 21

Urbanisation

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The movement of people from the country to the city due to job opportunities and better quality of life

Question 22

Raw material

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Materials that’s re harvested directly from the source/ground

Question 23

Manufactured good

Answer 23

A product that is made in a factory

Question 24

Steam power

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The main source of power during the Industrial Revolution usually made by burning coal

Question 25

Colony

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A country that is under the control of a coloniser

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Empire

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A group of territories rules by one leader usually with many vice leaders

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Resource

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A material that is considered valuable for a certain purpose

Question 28

Exploitation

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The use of someone or something unfairly for personal gain

Question 29

Missionary

Answer 29

People whose job it is to spread christianity to the rest of the world

Question 30

Sepoy

Answer 30

An Indian soldier that fought for the British

Question 31

British raj

Answer 31

Period between 1858 and 1947 when India was ruled directly by Britain because of the sepoy rebellion

Question 32

Viceroy

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The person who ruled over India on behalf of the king or queen

Question 33

Scramble for Africa

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Period of time I’m the late 19th century when European countries rushed to get as much of Africa as possible

Question 34

Potato famine

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Period of mass starvation from 2845 to 1852 due to a disease in the potato crop

Question 35

Emigration

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When people leave a country for another, usually as a result of a large scale event

Question 36

Social Darwinism

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The belief that white Europeans are superior to other races

Question 37

Eugenics

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The practice of improving the human race by keeping races pure and preventing different races from breeding

Question 38

Plantations

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Large scale farms in the Carribean and American colonies where slaves were used to farm cotton, tobacco etc

Question 39

Middle passage

Answer 39

The part of the slave triangle connecting Africa to the Americas where up to 400 slaves were on a ship at a time