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Example Question #12 : The Renaissance
Which of the following is Geoffrey Chaucer famous for writing?
The Canterbury Tales
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Gargantua
The Prince
Inferno
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was written in the fourteenth century in England. It is famous for helping popularize the use of the vernacular (local) language in writing and helped encouraged the spread of humanism during the English Renaissance.
Example Question #13 : The Renaissance
Which of these monarchs was the first to reign over a combined Kingdom of Scotland and England, later called Great Britain?
James I
Elizabeth I
Henry VII
James II
Henry VIII
James I
Following the death of the last Tudor ruler, Queen Elizabeth I, in 1603, the English crown was left without any direct heir. So the Scottish monarch James I, Elizabeth’s cousin, ascended to the throne. In doing so, he began the process of uniting the Scottish and English kingdoms into the Kingdom of Great Britain. Although James I could not himself unify the two kingdoms (he ruled over them both independently), they would be unified a century later during the reign of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch.
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