Students’ Questions about History Page 38

The Victorian era is the period of Queen Victoria’s reign, from 1837 to 1901. It was a time of great change for Britain, which saw the expansion of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution.

The first battle of the civil war was fought at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

The three main causes of the civil war were slavery, states’ rights, and the election of Abraham Lincoln.

The most popular theory is that Stonehenge was used as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. The second theory is that Stonehenge was used as a temple to worship ancient earth deities.

The Union had more soldiers and more resources than the Confederacy, and the Union’s victory was only a matter of time.

In ecology, an energy pyramid is a graphical representation of the biomass or productivity of each trophic level in a given ecosystem. The energy pyramid shows the relationship between biomass and trophic levels.

Ancient Greece traded with other countries through the Mediterranean Sea. They traded goods like olive oil, wine, and pottery.

Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of twenty.

There were many other causes of the Civil War besides slavery, such as states’ rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the growing divide between the North and the South.

The ancient Olympic Games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of Olympia, in the western Peloponnese, in honour of Zeus.