Continents and Oceans
How many continents are there?
7
How many continents did Rome spread across?
This system organized medieval society into kings, nobles, knights, and peasants.
Feudalism
Who discovered the New World?
Christopher Columbus
Founder of Christianity
Jesus Christ
This holiday celebrates the day the United States declared independence from Britain.
4th of July
How many oceans are there?
5
This language spoken by the Romans became the basis for Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Latin
These warriors fought on horseback and followed a code called chivalry.
Knights
What year was the New World discovered?
1492
Founder of Islam
Muhammad
This civil rights leader gave the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr
Which continent is the biggest?
Asia
Romans built these massive roads to move soldiers, goods, and messages quickly across the empire.
Roads
What caused the Black Death?
Fleas on rats
This disease killed millions of Native Americans after contact with Europeans.
Smallpox
King Henry VIII
This national monument was a gift from France to the United States.
Statue of Liberty
Which ocean touches both New York and England?
Atlantic Ocean
This religion was started during the Roman Empire.
Christianity
This deadly disease killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Black Death
This empire became extremely wealthy after taking gold and silver from the Americas.
Spain
Is considered a "Renaissance Man"
Leonardo Da Vinci
This president freed enslaved people with the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
This ocean touches the west coast of North and South America and is the largest ocean on Earth.
Pacific Ocean
This structure was used for gladiator fights and massive public entertainment events in Rome.
Colosseum
This group of people worked the land on a manor and were tied to it for life.
Serfs
This exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas was named after Columbus.
Columbian Exchange
Famous for painting all of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
This famous route helped enslaved people escape to freedom before the Civil War.
Underground Railroad
This continent contains the Sahara Desert, the Nile River, and the Great Rift Valley.
Africa
Romans used this engineering invention to transport water into cities using gravity.
Aqueducts
This medieval church leader had authority over the entire Catholic Church.
Pope
The group of people this explorer "discovered"
The Tainos
Wealthiest person to have ever lived.
Mansa Musa
This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks
This ocean is named after a country rather than a direction or region.
Indian Ocean
Which emperor divided Rome into 2?
Diocletian
These wars were fought between Christians and Muslims over control of the Holy Land.
Crusades
This crop from the Americas became important in Europe and helped feed growing populations.
Potatoes
The Virgin Queen
Queen Elizabeth I
This war was fought between the American colonies and Great Britain.
Revolutionary War
This continent has no permanent countries, governments, or native population.
Antarctica
This emperor was the first ruler of the Roman Empire.
Augustus
Who won France the 100 Years War?
Joan of Arc
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Triangle Trade
Julius Ceasar
What famous trail helped settlers move west to California during the Gold Rush era?
Oregon Trail
This continent contains more countries than any other continent.
Africa
What year did Rome fall?
476 AD
The Holy Land was what city?
Jerusalem
How many total trips did this explorer take to the New World?
4
Defeated the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
This continent is home to both the world’s driest desert and the world’s largest rainforest.
South America
What does E Pluibus Unum mean and where can you find it?
Out of many, one - on US money
What % of Europe's population did the Black Death kill?
1/3rd
This journey across the Atlantic Ocean carried millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas under brutal conditions.
Only female ruler in China
Empress Wu
Franklin D. Roosevelt