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Your flight through more than 6000 years of Scottish history
Results
| I. | How have we got our knowledge about the people living in Scotland from 4000 to 750 BC? Name three sources! |
> hunter-gatherers: few traces – little information > farmers: houses and
burial buildings made of stone tools, jewellery, weapons and pottery
> spectacular stone
circles and barrows
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| II. | Name the inhabitants
of Scotland for the period from 750 BC to 41 AD! Is there anything problematic
in terms of terminology?
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> “Celts” vs. “Iron Age People”
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| III. | What famous Governor
played an important role for the establishment of Roman rule in Scotland?
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> Cn. Julius Agricola
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| IV. | What people decided the struggle about supremacy
to its benefit (AD 685)?
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> the Picts
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| V. | What conflict characterised the political
situation in (early) Medieval Scotland?
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> Scotland vs. England (after Norman conquest)
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| VI. | Where did William Wallace win his glorious victory?
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a) Falkirk
b) Edinburgh
c) Stirling
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d) Bannockburn
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| VII. | When did Edward II King of England
acknowledge that Scotland was an independent country? Who was the Scottish
King at that time?
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> 1328, Robert Bruce
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| VIII. | What is the name of
Mary Stuart´s father?
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> James V
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| IX. |
At what age did Mary
Stuart marry the first time?
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> 15
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| X. | Who was the father of
Mary’s son James?
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> Lord Darnley
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| XI. | How did Mary Stuart
die?
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> She was executed
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| XII. |
When were the English and Scottish crown unified?
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> in 1603
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| XIII. | When
was the Civil War in Great Britain?
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> 1642 – 1649
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| XIV. |
What king is closely linked with the Restoration?
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> Charles II
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| XV. | Who was the leader of the most serious Jacobite
rebellion?
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> Earl of Mar
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| XVI. | Where
did the second Jacobean rising end?
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> At Culloden Moor
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XVII.
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What was the centre of the Scottish Enlightenment? |
> Edinburgh
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| XVIII. | What were the central problems people in Scottish towns and cities suffered from during the Victorian Era 1837– 1901? |
> Many were victims of overcrowding and disease in Scotland's
expanding towns and cities
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| XIX. | Which party became the major political force during
the 1920s?
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> The Labour Party
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| XX. | What political concept became dominant after World
War II?
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| > The concept of devolution |