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| Abraham Lincoln For writing about Abraham Lincoln: debate, campaign, Civil War, Robert E Lee, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, assassination… created: 6 January 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Afghanistan For writing about Afghanistan: empire, artefact, Genghis Khan, Hindu Kush, Khyber Pass, Islam, border, Taliban, mujahideen, landmine… created: 7 October 2008 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| American Revolution For writing about the American War of Independence — people, places, events: tax, rebel, George Washington, Boston Tea Party... revised: 10 Oct 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Assyria Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Assyria: Nineveh, Mesopotamia, palace, winged statue, military... revised: 12 Oct 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Babylon Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Babylon: law, astronomy, Hammurabi, Hanging Gardens, Mesopotamia, Nebuchadnezzar... revised: 12 Oct 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Egypt 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in ancient Egypt, including buildings, kings, queens, pyramids, and religion. revised: 1 Feb 2006 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Ancient Egypt 2 Same as Ancient Egypt 1 with the addition of advanced words and names: artisan, conquest, decline, plunder ... Amon-Re, Hyksos, Senusret. revised: 1 Feb 2006 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Greece 1 Basic words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: 17 Jan 2002 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Ancient Greece 2 Basic AND advanced words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: 16 Jan 2002 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Rome 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in Ancient Rome. Names of famous people and places in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman empire. revised: 12 Oct 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Ancient Rome 2 Words for Roman religious beliefs, legends, entertainments, achievements, and legacies. Names of people and places in the Roman empire. revised: 12 Oct 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Ancient Sumer 1 Words and phrases for BASIC writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial... created: 19 Apr 2002 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Ancient Sumer 2 Words and phrases for basic AND advanced words for writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial... revised: 26 Jan 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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Antarctic Explorers For writing about the exploration of Antarctica: Captain Cook, Robert F Scott, South Pole, the Endurance, Mawson, Richard Byrd… created: 6 May 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Arctic Explorers For writing about Arctic explorations: John Franklin, Baffin Bay, starvation, expedition, Roald Amundsen, harbour, Inuit, ice, the Northwest Passage... created: 23 May 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Aztecs For writing about the Aztecs: their way of life, religious beliefs, achievements, and legacies. revised: 12 Oct 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Battle of Britain For writing about the Battle of Britain at the beginning of World War II: battle, pilot, Spitfire, English Channel, attack, parachute, coastal defence... created: 23 Mar 2006 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Canadian Confederation For writing about the unification of Canada: British Empire, colony, treaty, convention, Fathers of Confederation, Canada East … created: 5 May 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Canada PreConfederation For writing about the colonial history of Canada: Samuel de Champlain, fur trade, missionary post, Hudson’s Bay Company, Iroquois, settlement, administration … created: 5 August 2010 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
China For writing about the geography and history of China: Great Wall, Ming dynasty, defence, Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, modernisation… created: 11 December 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary
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| Dinosaurs 1 basic Basic words for writing about dinosaurs: fossils, bones, reptile, plant-eater, T rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Velociraptor, armour, claw, lizard. revised: 7 Oct 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Dinosaurs 2 advanced Basic AND advanced words, including over 200 dinosaur names, from Alamosaurus to Microceratops to Zephyrosaurus. revised: 7 Oct 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| First Nations Eastern Native Americans and First Nations of the eastern US and SE Canada, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi: history, communities, places, way of life. revised: 25 Oct 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
First Nations Northern Peoples of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast: Inuit, First Nations, Native Americans — communities, places, history, way of life. revised: 25 Oct 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| First Nations Plains For writing about the French Revolution: Estates-General, taxes, Louis XVI, Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, tricolour, guillotine… created: 2 October 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
First Nations Western Native Americans and First Nations west of the Rocky Mountains, including parts of the US, Canada and Mexico: history, people, locations, way of life. revised: 25 Oct 2005 words: 1200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Florence Nightingale For writing about Florence Nightingale, pioneer of nursing: Crimea, hospital, honour, military, campaign … Use with the 12K Main Dictionary or higher. created: 5 April 2010 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Frederick Douglass For writing about Frederick Douglass: abolitionist, slavery, escape, orator, honour, education, Baltimore, the North Star, Reconstruction… created: 6 January 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| French Revolution For writing about the French Revolution: Estates-General, taxes, Louis XVI, Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, tricolour, guillotine… created: 2 October 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
General Election UK For writing about the UK General Election: ballot, campaign, democratic, candidate, vote … created: 4 November 2009 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| George W Carver For writing about the African-American scientist, George Washington Carver: Tuskegee, crop rotation, peanut, cotton, soya bean, slavery... created: 2 May 2006 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Gladiators Words for writing about gladiators in Roman times: amphitheatre, contest, Spartacus, trident, net... revised: 13 Oct 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Gunpowder Plot For writing about the people, causes, events, and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot in 17th-century Britain: Guy Fawkes, plot, conspirator, religion... revised: 14 Oct 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Henry VIII For writing about King Henry VIII of England: male heir, armoury, monastery, church, Pope Clement, execution, treason, marry, navy… created: 3 April 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Highland Clearances For writing about the causes and effect of the Highland Clearances in Scotland: crofter, sheep, farm, emigrate, harbour, factor, tenant, poverty, Scots… created: 4 April 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Holocaust Words and phrases for writing about the Holocaust: Nazi, Jew, genocide, racism, gas chamber, concentration camp, anti-Semitism, Hitler... revised: 13 Oct 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Immigration History North America For writing about the history of immigration to the USA and Canada: refugee, Ellis Island, labour, quota, assimilation… created: 10 March 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Industrial Revolution For writing about the Industrial Revolution: steam engine, factory, Henry Bessemer, capitalism, labour pool, tenement… created: 6 November 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Iraq War For writing about the attack on Iraq by coalition forces: the people, leaders, places, equipment, and events before, during, and after the war. revised: 27 Oct 2005 words: 1700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Labour History North America For writing about labour history in the USA and Canada: Samuel Gompers, Taft-Hartley Act, injunction, collective bargaining… created: 17 August 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Mahatma Gandhi For writing about the life of Mahatma Gandhi: non-violence, injustice, India, Pakistan, demonstration, partition, fast, honour… created: 10 December 2007 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Martin Luther King Jr For writing about Dr Martin Luther King Junior and his role in the civil rights movement: desegregation, bus boycott, inequality, non-violence... revised: 27 Jan 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Mary Seacole For writing about the pioneering nurse Mary Seacole: herb, Jamaica, entrepreneur, Crimea, British Hotel … Use with the 12K Main Dictionary or higher. created: 2 July 2010 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Mexican History For writing about the history of Mexico: Aztec, conquistador, Spain, independence, Miguel Hidalgo, Emiliano Zapata... created: 21 Apr 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Napoleon Bonaparte For writing about Napoleon Bonaparte: First Empire, Trafalgar, blockade, Napoleonic Wars, St Helena, Waterloo, exile… created: 2 October 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Native American History Native Americans and First Nations of North America: history, communities, places, ways of life. To narrow geographic focus, use a FIRST NATIONS dictionary. created: 28 Oct 2005 words: 2000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
| Nelson Mandela For writing about the life of Nelson Mandela: early years, protests against apartheid, imprisonment, and presidency of South Africa. revised: 27 Oct 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Olaudah Equiano For writing about the author and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano: freedom, autobiography, labour, writer, African… created: 6 January 2009 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Ottoman Empire For writing about the history, politics, and culture of the Ottoman Empire: sultan, Islam, Turk, architecture, jewellery … Use with the 12K Main Dictionary or higher. created: 9 March 2010 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Panama Canal For writing about the Panama Canal: Theodore Roosevelt, Cape Horn, Colombia, malaria, labourer, locks, channel, mudslide… Created: 1 May 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Rosa Parks For writing about Rosa Parks and her part in the civil rights movement: bus boycott, Montgomery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, colour, courage... created: 18 Jan 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Russian Revolution For writing about the Russian Revolution: Bolshevik, Lenin, labour union, riot, Duma, Romanov, abdicate, civil war, Marxism… created: 4 April 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Samuel Pepys For writing about Samuel Pepys, the diarist: restoration, plague, favour, Fire of London, the Thames, manuscript … created: 5 August 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Sitting Bull For writing about Sitting Bull: chief, Lakota, Black Hills, Fort Laramie Treaty, honour, lie, sacred, George Armstong Custer… created: 1 May 2008 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Slave Trade Britain For writing about the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire: slavery, abolition, labour, Africa, West Indies, plantation… created: 27 Mar 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Slavery in USA For writing about slavery in the United States: plantation, cotton, forced labour, overseer, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, abolition… created: 5 May 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Thomas Edison For writing about Thomas Edison: light bulb, carbon filament, inventor, research laboratory, rivalry, patent, honour… created: 4 April 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Titanic Sailing on the Titanic, its parts & passengers; the disaster of the iceberg; the discovery and exploration of the sunken ship. revised: 14 Oct 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Trafalgar For writing about the Battle of Trafalgar: Horatio Nelson, ship, battle, French, Spanish, navy, HMS Victory... created: 24 Jul 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Tudors and Stuarts Famous people, places, & events, plus everyday clothing, food, occupations, transport, and entertainment for the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts. revised: 13 Oct 2005 words: 2700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Victorian Engineers Engineers and engineering achievements of the Victorian Age — especially bridges, railways, tunnels, and ships. revised: 11 Mar 2001 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Vietnam War For writing about the Vietnam War: Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh, Henry Kissinger, Tet Offensive, Agent Orange, manoeuvre, jungle… created: 7 September 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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Vikings and AngloSaxons People, places, events, objects, artefacts, and everyday actions for the era of Vikings & Anglo-Saxons. revised: 14 Oct 2005 words: 2400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| William Wallace For writing about the Scottish hero William Wallace: patriot, rebel, victory, battle, armour, betray, Stirling… created: 10 March 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Women’s Vote UK For writing about women’s suffrage in the UK: franchise, Emmeline Pankhurst, arrest, protest, hunger strike, Women’s Social and Political Union… created: 8 June 2009 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Women’s Vote North America For writing about women’s suffrage in the USA and Canada: ballot, reform, Susan B Anthony, franchise, prison, hunger strike, Nineteenth Amendment… created: 8 June 2009 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
World War I For writing about World War I: trench warfare, shell, Somme, armour, assassination... created: 21 Aug 2006 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| World War II For writing about World War II: battle, invade, Nazi, bomb, evacuee, Battle of Britain, D-Day, soldier, pilot, navy, Allies... created: 11 Dec 2005 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Wright Brothers For writing about the Wright Brothers, their invention of the first controlled, powered airplane, and the first flights in it. revised: 14 Oct 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |