People
Who wrote The Prince?
Nicolo Machiavelli
What are the seasonal winds of India called?
Monsoons
What was the devotion to one's parents called?
Filial Piety
What was the world's first civilization?
Sumer
What was the world's first written language?
Cuneiform
Who wrote the Ninety-five Theses?
Martin Luther
What was predestination?
The Calvinist belief that it was decided who would go to hell or heaven after birth. This cannot be changed throughout one's lifetime.
What religion comes about in the Roman Empire?
Catholicism
Capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
What language was the Quran written in?
Arabic
Why did they kill Julius Ceasar?
To prevent Julius from becoming king and ending the republic.
What is the name of an island chain once called the Spice Islands?
Moluccas
What was the religion that emerged during the Persian Empire?
Zoroastrianism
What was the capital of the Renaissance?
Florence
What was the Era that began in 10,000 B.C.?
The Neolithic Era
Who was the first man to circumnavigate the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
What is Korean porcelain perfected during the Koryo dynasty?
Celadon
What was the patriarch?
The highest-ranking official of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
What is the capital of the Ottoman Empire?
Istanbul
Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?
Who wins?
Sparta versus Athens
Sparta wins
Who was the Maurya emperor who converted to Buddhism and vowed to rule by moral example?
Ashoka
What was the old order in which France was divided into three social classes?
ancien regime
What are the slender towers of mosques called?
minarets
What was the capital of the Roman Empire?
Rome
What were Christians called who were forced to serve Islam in the Ottoman Empire?
Janissaries