End of Year Quiz
- Name 2 medieval believes that limited sea travel.
- Why were they looking for a new way to the east/ why did they want to avoid the ottoman empire?
- What were portolan charts?
- What was a quadrants
- what does clinker-built mean?
- Why did royalty sponsor the voyages of exploration?
- What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- Who was the Augustinian monk who studied at Wittenberg university and spoke about "Justification through Faith alone"?
- What does excommunicated mean?
- What was the Papal Bull?
- What is simony, nepotism absenteeism, pluralism mean? (combined and individually)
- What was the name of the 1st plantation in Ireland?
- What was the Divine Right of the King?
- Give 2 reasons for the Boston Tea Party?
- Who was Paul Revere?
- What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
- What was the Treaty of The Paris?
- Who was responsible for the reign of terror?
- Who were the "sans-Culottes"?
- Why were the United Irishmen established?
- Who were the insurgents?
- Who invented the seed drill?
- What Acts saw fences and hedgerows appear across Britain?
- What were Thomas Telford and John McAdam famous for inventing?#
- What did Richard Trevithick invent?
- James Watt played a vital role in the development of steam power. How did he do this?
- What was the population of Britain in 1801?
- Who was Robert Owen?
- What did the Factory Act of 1833 do?
- How did the famine effect the population of Ireland?