Middle Ages
This English king was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215.
Who is King John?
A true Renaissance man: inventor, scientist, and painter of The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
He translated the Bible into English and prayed that Henry VIII would allow it in England.
Who is William Tyndale?
The Sun King and the name of his country.
Who is Louis XIV of France?
The Pilgrims land at Plymouth in this year
What is 1620?
This part of the eastern Roman Empire continued after the fall of Rome nearly 1000 years.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The year in which Columbus first discovered the New World.
What is 1492?
French reformer who led Geneva and wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Who is John Calvin?
The English king beheaded by his own Parliament.
Who is King Charles I?
The first permanent English settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown?
These people attacked Europe in waves from the 700s to the 1000s.
Who are the Vikings?
Conqueror of the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Catholic response to the Reformation, initiated at the Council of Trent
What is the Counter Reformation?
Lord Protector of England after the English Civil War.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
This colony was founded on behalf of debtors and the poor in England
What is Georgia?
This ideal medieval king was crowned emperor by the pope on Christmas Day, A.D. 800.
Who is Charlemagne?
One of the earliest Renaissance artists to show natural, emotional people in his paintings and frescoes.
Who is Giotto?
Name two key figures in the Great Awakening.
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield (or John and Charles Wesley)?
The Glorious Revolution brought this Dutch nobleman and English princess to the throne of England.
Who are William III and Mary II?
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Charles II granted this colony to a Quaker to repay the debt to his father.
The French maid who lifted the siege of Orleans and helped to put Charles VII on the French throne.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The emperor before whom Martin Luther stood trial at the Diet of Worms.
Who is Charles V?
The German prince of Hanover who became king of England after the death of Queen Anne.
Who is George I?
Three wars fought between British and French colonists before the French and Indian War.
What is King William's War, Queen Anne's War, and King George's War?