ReadWorks Questions: The British Empire - Queen Victoria

1. Which event happened last?

a. Victoria wrote in her diary about the coronation.

b. Victoria was crowned queen.

c. Victoria was born in 1819.

d. Victoria's father died.

2. How is Victoria described by the author?

a. demanding and lazy

b. hardworking and demanding

c. inexperienced and careless

d. hardworking and shy

3. Why might people now refer to the period of Victoria's reign as the Victorian
Age?

a. because of their respect for royalty

b. because historical periods are always named after people

c. because of Victoria's importance and influence

d. because they blame Victoria for having been a weak ruler

4. Read the following sentence from the passage: "Her reign was the longest in
British history."

In this sentence, the word reign means
a. rule
b. lifetime
c. downpour
d. bridle
5. The passage is mainly about
a. the impact of industrialization on Queen Victoria.
b. why the best political leaders always start young.
c. an important British queen who was cruel to other countries.
d. an important British queen who accomplished a lot.

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hope this : d

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire