Renaissance
The name of the empire that fell to the barbarians in 476AD.
What is the Roman Empire?
The most important invention of the Reformation that used movable type.
The name of the trade route that spanned from Constantinople to China.
What is the Silk Road?
The famous Kentucky Explorer who discovered the Cumberland Gap.
Who was Daniel Boone?
What were the two main questions Americans were trying to answer in the early 1800s?
1. Was slavery wrong?
2. Should it spread?
The Muslim leader who conquered the Iberian Peninsula.
Who is Tariq ibn Ziyad?
The name of the gathering where the Pope calls Luther a heretic.
What is The Diet of Worms?
The name of the Portuguese prince that began the Age of Exploration.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator.
The term that refers to the first people to settle a particular region of land.
What are pioneers?
Was slavery increasing or decreasing in the early 1800s? Why?
(a partial correct answer does not give you points!)
1. Decreasing
2. Because of the words of the Declaration of Independence.
The city that was referred to as the Cradle of the Renaissance.
Who is John Calvin?
The explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope.
Who was Bartolomeu Diaz?
The group Jefferson hired to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
What was the first actual battle of the Civil War?
What was The Battle of Bull Run?
The name of the most powerful family and patrons in Florence, Italy.
The name of Calvin's main belief about God and heaven.
What is predestination?
The name of the chain of islands where the Spice Islands were located.
What is the Malay Archipelago?
The name of the Indian Chief who attmpted to unite the tribes against Pioneer expansion.
Who was Tecumseh?
The name of the general that developed Lincoln's war plan to fight the South.
Who was General Winfield Scott?
The artist who painted The Last Judgement.
Who is Michelangelo?
The man who started the Jesuits. Last man of the Reformation.
Who is Ignatius of Loyola?
The explorer who discovered Brazil.
Who was Pedro Alvares Cabral?
The battle in Texas against Santa Anna and Commander Travis.
What was the Battle of the Alamo?
Describe how General Lee is forced to surrendur.
1. Siege at Richmond and Petersburg
2. Sherman's March to the Sea
3. The Blockade