The most significant event that occurred on December 25th, 800 anno domini.
What is the imperial coronation of Charlemagne?
100
In this year, Columbus persuaded the financial advisor of Queen Isabella that oceanic exploration was relatively inexpensive.
What is 1492?
100
This light-weight and fast Dutch ship contributed to the Netherlands' emergence as a top trading power in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What is the 'fluyt'?
100
Not to be confused with a small blue creature of unknown origin, or for that matter, a wave breaking on the sand.
What is a serf?
100
Substantially reduced by guild restrictions.
In the Dutch Republic from 47 in the early 16th c. to 6 by the mid 17th c.
In England from 40 down to 27 in 1552.
What are Saint's days or work holidays?
200
These two Germanic tribes sacked Rome in 410 and 455, contributing to it’s "fall."
What are the Visigoths and the Vandals?
200
"These days are days of shaking..." refers to the period known as 'the Crisis of the ____ century"
What is the 17th century?
200
The necessary item a medieval man traveling to China should bring along if he wishes to be regarded as a man of "higher condition".
What is a woman?
200
This is already a rate and need not have the word "rate" tacked on to the end of it.
What is mortality or fertility?
200
On June 18, 1349, this king published an ordinance forbidding laborers in England from receiving wages higher than those paid in 1346.
What is King Edward III?
300
Occurring c. 1315, Postan attributes this economic downturn to an increase in population unaccompanied by an increase in agricultural surplus.
What is The Great Famine?
300
In this year the First Crusade was preached and launched?
What is 1095?
300
A major milestone for the Age of Exploration, when sighted in 1488 by Bartholomew Dias.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
300
Means capable of thought and/or discernment.
What is sentient?
300
This island is the southernmost territory conquered by the Vikings.
What is Sicily?
400
Portuguese ships sailing ever further south down the west coast of Africa in the 15th century initiated this period of time.
What is the age of discovery ( or the age of exploration)?
400
In this year Adam Smith published his monumental treatise, The Wealth of Nations.
What is 1776?
400
The only country to receive its name from a trade good.
What is Brazil?
400
A common goal of economists and other human beings, but must ALWAYS be invoked in the context of a specific metric.
What is efficiency?
400
A grant of land given by the king to a person or an institution.
What is a beneficium?
500
Although some historians disagree Prof. McCants claims that this period witnessed the birth of the "consumer revolution."
What is the eighteenth century?
500
The year that coffee was first served in Europe (in Vienna), or at least recorded as served; and also the year that Martin Luther created a maelstrom by posting his 95 theses for debate.
What is 1517?
500
The world’s first multinational corporation, by far the largest importer of Asian goods to Europe from 1602 to 1798.
What is de Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC)? (Also accept: What is the Dutch East India Company?)
500
In arguing for an early 14th c. rise in mortality rates, Michael Postan relied heavily on data of this type of tax, which he assumed were normally death duties paid in the case of land translations inter vivos.