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This Mali Emperor literally put his kingdom on the map when he spent so much money on his Hajj that it disrupted Egypt's economy.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The biggest discovery of the Exploration Age was Europeans finding these two continents. Surprisingly, they weren't the last continents to be found.
What are North and South America?
Unlike the colonists at Jamestown, these colonists came to North America for religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims/Plymouth Colonists?
The invention of this type of engine revolutionized the production of goods.
What is the Steam Engine?
The Three Calamities that ended the Middle Ages in Europe included a famine, a war, and this plague.
What is the Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
This Macedonian emperor famously built upon his father's accomplishments by spreading their empire through Anatolia, Israel, Egypt, and Persia, stopping just short of India.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This city, sacred to three world religions, was captured by the crusaders in 1099.
What is Jerusalem?
Originally a sect of Judaism, this major world religion began during the Roman Empire.
What is Christianity?
This technology, discovered in China, would make its way to the West along the Silk Road. Its use in the Hundred Years' War soon made castles obsolete.
What is gunpowder?
The first successful revolution of a colony against its mother country.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
This Italian explorer made four voyages to the Caribbean on behalf of Spain; He never reached North or South America, but we still celebrate the day he first landed.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Much of Spain's wealth during the 1500s-1700s came from gold and silver artifacts from these empires, melted down and made into ingots.
Who are the Aztecs and the Incas?
Written in Cuneiform, this early collection of laws was carved into a 7-foot tall granite pillar.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
The invention of this device by Johannes Gutenberg would eventually lead to waves of social and religious reform. When people can read, they're harder to oppress.
What is the Printing Press?
Though they were allies during the Persian Wars, these two city-states became bitter rivals, fighting against each other in the Peloponnesian War just a few centuries later.
What are Athens and Sparta?
Breaking from his rich and powerful family, this prince gained Enlightenment after a long period of learning and meditation.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama/The Buddha?
The cultural center of the Islamic Golden Age, this city contained a massive library and university.
What is Baghdad?
This document, based on Enlightenment ideas like Natural Rights and the Social Contract, stated the 13 colonies' reasons for becoming independent.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This massive structure along China's northern border was originally built in separate sections, and then connected under the Qin Dynasty.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Many noblemen and free peasants chose to join one of these wars to obtain honors, treasure, and forgiveness of sins. And to reclaim the Holy Land too.
What are the Crusades?
This Duke of Normandy proved his claim to the throne of England when he defeated his rival, Harold Godwinson, at the battle of Hastings.
Who is William the Conqueror?
This ancient Aztec city once housed over a million people, making it the largest city on earth for a time.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This document, reluctantly signed by the English King John, placed limits on royal power. It eventually inspired parts of the United States Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta?
The Maya were able to use their knowledge of the stars and planets to create this, which did not actually predict the end of the world in 2012.
What is a Calendar?
In order to secure their Sphere of Influence, Great Britain illegally sold this substance to Chinese merchants, getting them addicted. In response, China and Great Britain went to war.
What is opium?