Chapter 3 Test 2

When Catherine was too old to give him another child, Henry decided to divorce her, hoping that another wife would give him a son to be his heir.

During the Bronze Age people lived in roundhouses and buried their dead in tombs called round barrows.

In 1815, the French Wars ended with the defeat of the Emperor Napoleon by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellington was known as the Iron Duke and later became Prime Minister.

The World Wide Web, the Turing machine and the hovercraft are British inventions.

In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic.

Fleming won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of the penicillin.

The Roman army left Britain in AD 410 to defend other parts of the Roman Empire and never returned.

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester in 1858. She set up the women’s Franchise League in 1889, which fought to get the vote in local elections for married women.

The First World War lasted four years (1914 – 1918).

Henry VII was the leader of the House of Lancaster.

During the Victorian period, the British Empire grew to cover all of India, Australia and large parts of Africa.

Scientists led by Ernest Rutherford, working at Manchester and then Cambridge University, were the first to ‘split the atom’ and took part in the Manhattan Project in the United States, which developed the atomic bomb.

After the Black Death, new social classes appeared, including owners of large areas of land (later called the gentry), and people left the countryside to live in the towns. In the towns, growing wealth led to the development of a strong middle class.

The Harrier jump jet, an aircraft capable of taking off vertically, was also designed and developed in the UK.

Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were accused of taking lovers and executed.

In 1996, two British scientists, Sir Ian Wilmot (1944-) and Keith Campbell (1954-2012), led a team which was the first to succeed in cloning a mammal, Dolly the sheep.

The Turing machine is a theoretical mathematical device invented by Alan Turing (1912-54), a British mathematician, in the 1930s. The theory was influential in the development of computer science and the modern-day computer.

During the 18th century, David Hume’s ideas about human nature continue to influence philosophers.

The ‘Concorde’ began carrying passengers in 1976.

Skara Brae on Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is the best preserved prehistoric village in northern Europe, and has helped archaeologists to understand more about how people lived near the end of the Stone Age.

The Parliament developed in Scotland in the Middle Ages had three Houses, called Estates: the lords, the commons and the clergy.

Scientific discoveries, such as James Watt’s work on steam power, helped the progress of the Industrial Revolution.

The burial place of one of the Anglo-Saxon kings was at Sutton Hoo in modern Suffolk.