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Anglo-Saxons and the middle ages.
English Renaissance
English Enlightenment
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The Anglo-Saxons believed that this was the end of every man.
What is Wyrd? or What is Fate?
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This was a renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
What is Humanism?
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These two groups of people fought each other in what became the English Civil War .
Who are the Royalists and the Puritans?
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He wrote The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a story telling of how the Anglo-Saxons came to accept the Christian Faith.
Who is The Venerable Bebe?
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The death of Humbaba is from this epic.
What is Gilamesh
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They sang about epic heroes and Germanic tales. Their songs were lyrical and still are known to this day.
What is a bard?
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This is the Latin word for knight. Titled to the poets of King James I's court.
What is Cavalier?
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This was a member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England, demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline.
What is a Puritan?
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He wrote A Midnight's summer dream, where his characters in the story seemed to be in love with the wrong people.
Who is William Shakespeare?
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He said "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
Who is Edmund Spenser?
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These were the embodiment of the middle ages, high in honor, following the code of chivalry, and courting fair maidens.
What is a Knight?
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In 1522 He translated the New Testament into German.
Who is Martin Luther?
300
The puritans saw these two disasters as a punishment from God for their sinful acts. The first killed thousands of people in England, and the second destroyed almost 2 miles of London.
What were the bubonic plague and the Great Fire of London?
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He wrote the essay "Of Studies" the topic well you guessed it, Studies and learned things that train the mind.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon
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This epic hero said "Fate has swept away all my kinsmen, earls in their strength, to destined death. I have to go after."
Who is Beowulf?
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After being converted Anglo-Saxons often turned into these, and went of to establish their own communities. Where they devoted themselves to God and copied manuscripts.
What is monks?
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He made enough to retire in 1610 from shareholding two theaters, the Globe Theatre and the Blackfriars Theatre.
Who is William Shakespeare?
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He took the throne after Oliver Cromwell's military dictatorship proved to be in effective. He also started up again many of the traditions that saw as impure.
Who is King Charles II?
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He wrote Whoso List to Hunt, a poem about a woman he will never have because she belonged to the king, before he beheaded her of course.
Who is Sir Thomas Wyatt?
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He said "This moral conviction alone affords that ever-fresh resilience which renews the strength and energy of people in long, doubtful and dark days. Outside, the storms of war may blow and the lands may be lashed with the fury of its gales, but in our own hearts this Sunday morning there is peace. Our hands may be active, but our consciences are at rest." In his war speech of 1939.
Who is Winston Churchill?
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These were above warrior chiefs in their Anglo-Saxon hierarchy.
What is a Royal Warrior?
500
He became protestant just to divorce his eighth wife, Katharine of Aragon
Who is Henry VII?
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This was the name a group of "natural philosophers" dawned when given a charter of study by King Charles II. They focused on find out the natural laws of the world through experimentation and observation.
What is the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge?
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He wrote "Gulliver's Travels" a fiction book about a man washing up on a strange shore, where the people seemed to be the size of ants compared to him.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
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She gave the speech "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?