Overview - Role of Individuals

Question 1

Robert Clive

Answer 1

Important role in building control over India as part of the EIC

Battle of Plassey

Question 2

Warren Hastings

Answer 2

First governor of India

Question 3

John Hawkins

Answer 3

Helped build Elizabethan Navy and helped establish Britain’s role in the slave trade

Question 4

Claudia Jones

Answer 4

Set up Notting hill carnival and campaigned for West Indian rights

Question 5

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 5

Seen as a hero of the Empire, had major role in the Scramble for Africa, promoted social Darwinism, founded Rhodes scholarship

Question 6

Henry II

Answer 6

Built the Angevin Empire

Question 7

Nkrumah

Answer 7

Won Independence in Ghana

Question 8

Kenyatta

Answer 8

Won independence in Kenya

Question 9

Cnut

Answer 9

Set up Danish North Sea Empire including Britain

Question 10

King John

Answer 10

Lost Angevin Empire

Question 11

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 11

Founded colonies in USA such as Virginia

Question 12

Gandhi

Answer 12

Campaigned for Independence for India

Question 13

Captain Cook

Answer 13

Discovered Australia and claimed it for Britain

Question 14

Alfred the Great

Answer 14

United the Anglo Saxon kingdoms

Question 15

Henry V

Answer 15

Helped to create an English identity during the Hundred Years’ War

Question 16

William the Conqueror

Answer 16

Established Norman rule and French influence over England

Question 17

Aethelred the Unready

Answer 17

Carried out the St. Brice’s day massacre causing vikings to invade and conquer England