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Civil War

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When a country is in war with itself

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Royalists

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The king and his followers

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Parliamentarians

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The men on Parliament and their followers

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Ship tax

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Taxes collected to raise money for warships

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Cavalry

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Soldiers on horseback

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Infantry

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Soldiers without horses

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Cavalier

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Soldiers from the Royalists’ side

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Roundheads

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Soldiers from the Parliamenterian’s side

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Sash

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Strip of cloth

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New Model Army

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Professional army created by the Parliament

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Traitor

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Someone who betrays something/someone

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Martyr

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Someone who is killed because of religious beliefs

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Interregnum

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The time period when England was a republic

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Republic

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A country without a monarchy

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Malaria

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A disease caused by mosquitoes

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Regicide

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A person who kills a monarch

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Restoration

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When Charles II restored England

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Bubonic plague

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Plague which causes the victim to have huge,round boils on their groin and armpit

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Bubonic plague

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Plague which causes the victim to have huge,round boils on their groin and armpit

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Miasma

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Poisonous air

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Plague

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A fast-spreading killer disease

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Bill of Mortality

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Where the number of deaths each week and its causes are written in

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Quack

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Con-artists

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Scapegoat

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Someone who is blamed/takes the blame for the wrongdoings of someone else

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Baroque

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A decorative & theateric style

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Constitution

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The laws & rules of a country

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Bill of Rights

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A series of laws introduced by the Parliament

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Act of Settlement (1701)

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Law that stated that all the monarchs should be a Protestant,Catholics banned from becoming monarchs

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Act of Union (1707)

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England,Wales & Scotland were now united,with 1 Parliament based in London

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Enlightenment

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Period when people observed and explored the world, and tried new theories & experiments

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