These are large Christian churches that were often located in the middle of large towns.
What are Cathedrals?
100
This is the meaning of the word Renaissance.
What is rebirth?
100
In an effort to raise funds for the rebuilding of St. Peter's church Pope Leo X began this controversial Church practice.
What is the selling of Indulgences?
100
This city was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
100
Spanish conquistadors, or conquerors, led by this man, conquered the Aztecs city of Tenochtitlan in 1519.
Who is Hernando Cortes?
200
This epoch lasted from 1300 to 1500.
What is the Middle Ages?
200
This powerful Florentine banking family were great patrons of Renaissance art.
Who are the Medici?
200
He nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a Church in Wittenberg.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
This was a sturdy Portuguese ships with triangular sails that could swiftly travel long distances.
What is a Caravel?
200
This Incan emperor, promised Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizzaro a large room filled with gold.
Who is Atahuallpa?
300
These were a series of military campaigns in which Christian armies tried to conquer the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
300
This is the language spoken by the common people.
What is the Vernacular?
300
These people were dissatisfied with the Catholic Church and in response to Church Corruption broke away, starting their own Churches.
Who are Protestants?
300
This Italian sailor, sailing for Portugal, reached India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
300
This was a name for French Trappers in the New World.
What is coureurs de bois?
400
This is the name given a series of wars fought between Christians and Muslims in Spain.
What is the Reconquista?
400
His book, The Prince, encouraged nobles to use any means necessary, including force to maintain control of their lands.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
400
Catholic leaders met here to discuss the problems in the Catholic Church and made several reforms.
What is the Council of Trent?
400
These Spanish monarchs financed Columbus's voyages of discovery.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
400
This first English Colony in the New World was founded in 1585. Its colonists mysteriously disappeared, a Mystery that is yet to be solved to this day.
What is Roanoke?
500
King John of England was forced by rebellious vassals to sign this document after he lost the Battle of Runnymede.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
His invention of a printing press with movable type made books available to the masses for the first time.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
500
Martin Luther was convicted of this crime in 1521, as a result he was excommunicated, or expelled, from the Catholic Church.
What is Heresy?
500
Ferdinand Magellan, though he died before its completion, led the first expedition to do this.
What is Circumnavigate, or sail around, the world?
500
This was a Spanish system of Colonization in which Native people's would accept Catholicism and work for the Spanish settlers in return for food and housing.