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1
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When did Ivan III marry Sopia Palaiologina?

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1472

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What symbols did Ivan III adopt after his marriage to Sophia Palaiologina?

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Byzantine Eagle, Adopts the Title of Tsar (rather than Grand Duke)

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Which Russian document written in the 1510s presented a suprious genealogy of the Russian Tsars?

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Poslanie Spiridona-Savvy

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In which decade was the Poslanie Spiridona-Savvy written?

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1510s

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Which item did Poslanie Spiridona-Savvy spuriously claim had been gifted to Muscovy by the Byzantines?

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Monomakh’s Cap

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Under which Tsar was the Poslanie Spiridona-Savvy composed and officially printed?

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Vasilij III

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When was the Poslanie Spiridona-Savvy officially issued?

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late 1520s/early 1530s

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Which words, derived from private land boundaries, did the Russians use for borders with Sweden and Poland-Lithuania?

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Rubezh, Granitsa

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Which words, meaning periphery, did Russians use to refer to their colonial frontiers?

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Krai, Ukraina

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What is the Russian for New Unconquered Territory?

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Novonye Nemirnye Zemlitsy

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What is the Russian for New Conquered Territory?

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Novoprivodnye Zemli

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When did the Russian crown grant lands to local Tatar Rulers?

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late 15th and early 16th century

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Which land grant was the foundation of the Qasim Khanate?

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Grant of Gorodets to Prince Kasim in the 1450s

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In which wars did the Qasim Khanate provide troops to assist Muscovy?

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Lithuania (early 16th), Sweden (1555), Livonian War (1558-1583)

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When settlers moved from Muscovite heartlands in the North to the colonised south, what were they fleeing?

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famines, epidemics and wars concentrated in the North

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What was the reign of Basil III?

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1505-1533

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During the reign of Basil III (1505-1533), the chronicles mention how many epidemics in the North and South of Muscovy?

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four in the North, none in the South

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What were the dates of the Livonian War?

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1558-1583

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By what percentage did the Tula District Land Assessments increase by between 1585-1589 (as a result of the Livonian War)?

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230% (c.8000 quarters/field to just under 18000)

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What powers did governors of Muscovy’s frontier region hold?

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powers to expel settlers, coercion of peasant labour

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What were the tasks of peasant corvee labour in maintaining the abatis lines through spring, summer and autumn?

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Spring: shovel snow from earthworks to prevent meltwater damage
Summer: create firebreaks
Autumn: burn grasslands to deny pasture to nomadic raiders

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Between which decades were responsibility for abatis maintenance transferred from the governors to the fortification stewards?

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1520s-1550s

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23
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When did Feodor I die?

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1598

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What period (1598-1613) began with the death of Feodor I in 1598?

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the Time of Troubles

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25
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What was wrong with Feodor I?

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intellectually disabled, left no heirs

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26
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What the name of Ivan the Terrible’s bodyguard?

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Oprichniki

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In which year did Ivan the Terrible’s Oprichniki destroy Novgorod?

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1570

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How many people were killed when the Oprichniki destroyed Novgorod (1570)?

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2500-12000

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When Oprichniki destroyed Novgorod (1570), how much of the surrounding farmland was destroyed?

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90%

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30
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When did Devlet I burn Moscow?

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1571

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31
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Who assisted Devlet I in the burning of Moscow (1571)?

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six boyars who had fled Ivan the Terrible’s madness

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32
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How many people died in the Russian Famine of 1601-1603?

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c.2 million (30% of the population)

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What were the effects of the Russian famine of 1567

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grain prices increased tenfold, 20% of Moscow region villages abandoned

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How many people died in the 1570 epidemic in Pskov?

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30,000

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When did 30,000 people die in an epidemic in Pskov?

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1570

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36
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When did Tatar raiders burn Ryazan?

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1564

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When did the Tatars burn Tula, Serpokhov and Kashira?

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1569

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What settlement did Tatar raiders burn in 1564?

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Ryazan

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39
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Which settlements did the Tatars burn in 1569?

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Tula, Serpokhov and Kashira

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40
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Which individual was immortalised in the Poema de mio Cid?

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Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar

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Which history, written by Pseudo-Turpin, claimed Charlemagne had thrice liberated Iberia?

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Historia Caroli Magni

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Which Leonese history claimed that Charlemagne was defeated by the Navarrese and was ‘corrupted by gold’?

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Historia Silense

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43
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Which legal treaty referred to ‘the land of Spain which the Saracens hold at present’?

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King of Castile - Count of Barcelona (1150)

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What was ajudicated in the 1150 treaty between the King of Castile and the Count of Barcelona?

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‘the land of Spain which the Saracens do hold at present’

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45
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Language referring to future land to be conquered is found in which treaties (1151-1305)?

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Tudilen, Cazorla, Almizra, Torellas and Elche

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46
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When was the Fuero of Tudela granted?

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1115

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47
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What did the Fuero of Tudela (1115) grant the muslim inhabitants?

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that ‘in lawsuits and in pleas’ they would be judged by their own ‘as it was in the time of the Moors’

48
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Which Spanish settlements were founded on narrow plateau’s between ravines?

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Sepulveda and Guadalajara

49
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Which Spanish settlements were constructed near major rivers with substantial defensive walls?

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Segovia, Cuenca and Toledo

50
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Which was the only town in Castile not to be sited primarily for defensiveness?

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Salamanca (remnants of a Roman settlement)

51
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When was Medina Sidonia repopulated?

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1264

52
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Upon the repopulation of Medina Sidonia (1264), what priveleges were given to its inhabitants?

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exempted from local tithes (later tolls anywhere in Castile)

53
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What priveleges were extended to the inhabitants of Medina Sidonia in 1288?

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total exemption from all forms of taxation

54
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What priveleges were offered to the population and visiting merchants in Gibraltar and Tarifa?

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total exemption from all forms of taxation

55
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What was the name of the amnesty given to settlers?

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Homicianos

56
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When and where was the earliest instance of the privelege of Homicianos?

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Sepulveda (1076)

57
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What did Spanish kings define border towns as (and why)?

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military garrisons (entitled to grain rations directly from the crown)

58
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When was the Fuero of Sepulveda issued by Alsonso VI of Leon and Castile?

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1076

59
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In what year was King Alfonso IX of Leon excommunicated by Celestine III?

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1196

60
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Why did Celestine III excommunicated King Alfonso IX of Leon in 1196?

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He allied with the Almohads whilst at war with Castile

61
Q

When and what was El Cid’s first experience of battle?

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Battle of Graus (1063) - assisting the Sultan of Zaragoza against Ramiro I of Aragon

62
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Between which dates did the Papacy send three legatine missions against the local Mozarabic liturgy?

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1065-1072

63
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Which king’s attempt to impose the Roman liturgy led to a long running feud?

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King Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile

64
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At which event was the Roman liturgy accepted within Leon and Castile?

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Council of Tours (1080)

65
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Which Roman Law doctrine was used by the English in North America?

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Res Nullius - right of individuals to appropriate unclaimed property

66
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“as much land…

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as a man tills, plants, improves, [and] cultivates… so much is his property” - John Locke, Two Treatises (1689)

67
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Which agricultural products are frequently mentioned in the Two Treatises?

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corn, sugar, tobacco

68
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“we have now…

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such a strength of the frontiers” - Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia (1676)

69
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“it is no frontier”

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Cromwell, justifying his demolition of Basing House (1645)

70
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Which treaty referred to “A straite line”?

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Virginia-Powhatan Treaty (1646)

71
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What did the Virginia-Powhatan Treaty (1646) refer to?

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“a straite line”

72
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Which treaty forbade settlement “nearer then Three miles of any Indian Town”?

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1677 treaty between Virginia and various tribes

73
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The 1677 Treaty between Virginia and surrounding tribes forbade what?

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settlement “nearer then Three miles of any Indian Town”

74
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When did the Virginians clumsily try to crown Chief Powhatan as a subordinate monarch?

A

1608

75
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In which year did Powhatans brother launch a massacre of English settlers?

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1622

76
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From which decade did the English colonies begin to coordinate their relationships with Native Americans?

A

1670s

77
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Which tribe was used as a buffer between New York and French settlements in Quebec?

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Mohawks

78
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In which year did Edmund Andros, Governor of New York, forbid the sale of gunpowder to tribes other than the Mohawks?

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1676

79
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In which year was a palisade built across the Virginia peninsula?

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1634

80
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How long was the palisade constructed on the Virginia peninsula?

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9.4km

81
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In which year did Virginia begin construction on Forts Royal, Charles and Henry?

A

1645

82
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Which forts did Virginia begin to construct in 1645?

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Forts Royal, Charles and Henry

83
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Which colonies were predominantly Congregationalist with Quaker and Baptist minorities?

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Massachusetts and Connecticut

84
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Which colonies were mixed of Lutheran, Dutch Reformed, Presbyterian (with some Catholics)?

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New York and Pennsylvania

85
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Which colonies were dominated by Anglicans?

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Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia

86
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In which year did Charles issue a proclamation for “one Uniforme course of Government”?

A

1625

87
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Charles I proclamation of 1625?

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“one Uniforme course of Government”

88
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When was the Commission to Regulate Plantations set up?

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1634

89
Q

What body was set up in 1634 to regulate the colonies?

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Commission to Regulate Plantations

90
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In which year was the Virginia Charter issued?

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1606

91
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What did the Virginia Charter promise to settlers?

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the same “liberties, franchises and immunities” as Englishmen

92
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When was the Massachusetts Charter issued?

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1628

93
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What was new about the Massachusetts Charter (1628)?

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The presiding officers of the joint stock company moved across the Atlantic immediately

94
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Who was given sole proprietorship of Maryland in 1632?

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George Calvert, Lord Baltimore

95
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When and where was the first legislative assembly in the American colonies?

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Virginia (1619)

96
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What was the assembly of Virginia (1619) instituted in response to?

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the imposition of martial law in 1611

97
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Which colonies had their own legislative assemblies by 1640?

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Masachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Plymouth, New Haven, Barbados

98
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In which year did the settlers of New York demand an assembly from James, Duke of York?

A

1681

99
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Which colony was abandoned after 14 months in 1608 due to a failure to establish a secure food supply?

A

Popham Colony

100
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In which year was Popham Colony abandoned after 14 months?

A

1608

101
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When was the starving time and what was its effects?

A

Winter 1609-1610, population of Jamestown falls from 500 to 61

102
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Which colony lasted from 1585-1590 before disappearing without a trace?

A

Roanoke

103
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What were the dates of Roanoke Colony?

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1585-1590

104
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Which French and Spanish colonies were abandoned due to famine?

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San Miguel de Gualdape, Pensacola, Charlesfort

105
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Where was the Bank Array defensive line?

A

Oka River

106
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How deep were the Russian abatis lines?

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20-130 metres

107
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What additional fortifications did the Russians construct at strategic points?

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Earthworks, palisades, forts and cavalry fences

108
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How much of the Oka Bank Array was constructed by 1533?

A

250 km

109
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What was the name of the ‘Great Abatis Line’ in Russian?

A

Zasechnaya Cherta

110
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Where was the Zasechnaya Cherta?

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around 100 km south of the Oka River

111
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Which two towns were linked by the Zasechnaya Cherta?

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Ryazan and Kozel’sk (via Tula)

112
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By what year was the Zasechnaya Cherta completed?

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1566

113
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How long was the Zasechnaya Cherta?

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600km

114
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How long were the additional lines south of the Zasechnaya Cherta?

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400 km

115
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By what date were the additional lines south of the Zasechnaya Cherta completed?

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1600

116
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Between which dates were the treaties of Tuledin, Cazorla, Almizra, Torellas and Elche signed?

A

1151-1305

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