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commerce and war
The Commonwealth
The Early British Empire
The East India Company
Vocab
100
the Dutch Admiral.
who was Michiel de Ruyter
100
Lord Protector of England from 1649-1658.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
100
what trade item was in great demand at this time?
What was sugar?
100
The East India Company was an early English _______.
what was a Joint-stock company?
100
the action of killing a king.
What is regicide?
200
who was attacking England during the attack on the medway.
Who where the dutch?
200
the name of the republic that ruled over England from 1649-1660.
What was the Commonwealth of England?
200
what company was created in 1610?
What was the Newfoundland Company?
200
what did this company mainly trade.
What was textiles, dye, and tea?
200
proletariat.
What is workers or working-class people, regarded collectively.
300
who won the battle of Gabbard.
What is it was inconclusive?
300
why the English people reverted back to the Monarchy.
What was because Oliver Cromwell's son Richard, his successor, was inept?
300
who lead a voyage to find a passage to Asia via the north Atlantic.
Who was King Henry VII?
300
what was it initially formed for.
What was for pursuing trade with the east indies?
400
what was new York called during this time.
What is New Amsterdam?
400
who dissolved the long parliament.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
400
who ascended the English throne in 1603.
who was James VI
400
what did this company have a monopoly on.
What was tea?
400
of or relating to or characterized by fever
What is febrile?
500
what is commerce
What is the activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
500
what did the word commonwealth come from.
What is the early English concept of the commonweal, meaning good or welfare?
500
what was the lost colony of Roanoke.
what was a failed attempt by Elizabeth I to make a English settlement in the new-land?
500
Apotheosis
What is the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god); model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal