History Quiz!

cfc.forever

Lets get the ball rolling, the exams tomorrow we really need to get ourselves on form

What were the blackshirts

DublinArnie

Followers of Mussolini.

What year was the Treaty of Augsburg?

chester3455

1555.

What year was ireland declared a republic??

cfc.forever

Easter Monday 18th April 1949

What was Ogham?

Wiefi

Ancient Irish Writing style

What's a cloister?

examstress

Wiefi wrote: »

Ancient Irish Writing style

What's a cloister?

A place where novives were tought...?

examstress

Name a group of people within Ermany who were persecuted by the nazis (excluding jews)

cfc.forever

A court yard where novices were taught and were monks liked to relax and gypsy's

What was the abbot in a monastery?

Wiefi

The head of the monastery

What's sfumato?

examstress

Wiefi wrote: »

The head of the monastery

What's sfumato?

Smokiness in paintings

examstress

What type of goods were produced in textile mills?

Lost In Confusion

Wiefi wrote: »

The head of the monastery

What's sfumato?

it's smokiness used in renaissance art to make the picture more mysterious

Who were the Gestapo and where did they exist?

cfc.forever

The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.

What is one of the earliest books by early irish christian monks and what language is it in?

The Gestapo was the feared secret police and they existed in germany ^

examstress

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

it's smokiness used in renaissance art to make the picture more mysterious

Who were the Gestapo and where did they exist?

Where they some sort of secret police ??:/

DublinArnie

Lost In Confusion wrote: »

it's smokiness used in renaissance art to make the picture more mysterious

Who were the Gestapo and where did they exist?

Secret police that worked for Hitler in Germany.

What was the OPRA?

examstress

Name 3 consequences of the 1798 reb ?

DUBLINHITMAN97

The Gestapo where Hitlers secret police and existed during the 1930s and 1940s.

When Was Columbus Born?

examstress

Define prehistory

examstress

Mention 2 reasons why the british began a policy of plantation in Irelandd

MmmPancakes

DublinArnie wrote: »

Secret police that worked for Hitler in Germany.

What was the OPRA?

Do you mean OVRA?

Wiefi

Bitter divisions between Catholics and Protestants, act on union passing and Wolfe tone known as father of republicanism.

What was bloody Sunday?

examstress

What was the Lateran treaty

Lost In Confusion

examstress wrote: »

Define prehistory

time before writing was invented.

What is the solemn league and covenant

cfc.forever

Everyones just shouting questions, answer the peoples questions first. Pre-history is the time before there was written records

The solemn league and covenant was a treaty :l

Lost In Confusion

examstress wrote: »

What was the Lateran treaty

treaty between Mussolini and the pope.

What sparked off the renaissance?

examstress

Sorry Im just typing out q's from my mock:/

LawdyLad

Book of Kells - written in Latin.

The Gestapo was Hitler's secret police force and they existed in Germany :P

Wiefi

Solemn league and covenant was a document signed that declared that unionists were willing to use violence against home rule(?)

What was the reign of terror?

Lost In Confusion

Wiefi wrote: »

Bitter divisions between Catholics and Protestants, act on union passing and Wolfe tone known as father of republicanism.

What was bloody Sunday?

Worst day of the war of Independence. Michael Collins sent a squad and they killed 12 assassins later that day the British fired into croagh park. The loss of lives made the event known as bloody Sunday.

Name a leader and a plantation they ordered in Ireland.

cfc.forever

What sparked off the renaissance, is what you mean what started it if so people were inspired by romain ruins and people wanted art to be more realistic and artists wanted to see inside the body to make there paintings more realistic.

Name three leaders in the 1916 rising

Plantation Laois/Offaly Mary

LawdyLad

Ulster Plantation - King James 1