Starter quiz
- In South Africa, many people worked as ...
- sailors
- bakers
- miners ✓
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- Who set up a group to help the miners and change the conditions they were working in?
- Prince Albert
- John Brown
- Alice Kinloch ✓
- Queen Victoria
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- The largest diamond in the world was found in England.
- True
- False ✓
- Queen Victoria ruled over lots of countries in the British ______.
- 'Empire' ✓
- Alice Kinloch came to ______ to explain that African miners were not treated fairly.
- London ✓
- Edinburgh
- Cardiff
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- Select the ways that miners in South Africa were treated.
- lots of breaks
- no breaks ✓
- low pay ✓
- high pay
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Exit quiz
- Match the keywords to the definitions.
- servant⇔a person who works in someone else's home ✓
- empress⇔the female leader of an empire ✓
- Britain still rules over India today. True or false?
- True
- False ✓
- Victoria was given the title 'Empress of India' in ...
- 1676
- 1776
- 1876 ✓
- 1976
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- Which country was Abdul Karim born in?
- England
- Scotland
- India ✓
- South Africa
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- Abdul Karim taught Queen Victoria how to speak ...
- French
- Urdu ✓
- Spanish
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- The royal ______ included many servants who did jobs for the queen.
- 'household' ✓
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Key learning points
- During Victorian times, the British Empire controlled many countries around the world including India.
- Britain had gradually taken control of more and more territory of India before and during Victoria's reign.
- In 1876, Victoria was given the special title 'Empress of India'.
- Later in Victoria's life, one of her most faithful servants was called Abdul Karim, who was from India.
- Some of Victoria's other household servants were angered by Abdul and did not want to treat him as an equal.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that Britain still rules over or controls India today.
Britain does not rule India today. Britain ruled India and much of the surrounding land for over 300 years, but this ended in 1947 when the territory was partitioned into two separate independent countries which became India and Pakistan.
Keywords
India - India is a country in southern Asia surrounded on three sides by the Indian Ocean
Empress - the female leader of an empire is called an empress
Servants - a person who has a job working in someone else's home is a servant
Household - a ruler's household includes all the people who support a ruler and live in the same building as them or very near to them
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