Medieval Times (Not the Restaurant)
This is a synonoym for Medieval Times.
What is Middle Ages or Dark Ages?
The planet Earth is this shape.
What is a sphere? (round)
In 1492, this murderous explorer sailed the ocean blue. He also believed the Earth was shaped like a pear.
Who is Christoper Colombus?
Resources that will run out if used excessively, such as coal and oil, are called this.
What are nonrenewable resources? (acceptable: fossil fuels)
Thee pyrotechnic displays are launched into the air to celebrate Independence and to ring in the New Year.
What are fireworks?
These leaders were in charge of countries during medieval times; they often had lords who swore loyalty to them.
Who are kings? (queens, monarchs)
After the end of the Silk Road, Portuguese merchants went to Asia by sailing around this continent.
What is Africa?
These explorers, whose name comes from the Spanish word "conqueror," included Hernando de Soto and Hernan Cortez.
Who were Conquistadors?
This renewable resource covers over 70% of the Earth.
What is water?
This Jewish winter holiday celebrates light and the safety that they believe comes from God.
This disease, spread by the fleas on the backs of rats, killed almost 2/3 of Europeans.
What is the Black Death (Black Plague, Bubonic Plague)?
During these wars to take the Holy Land, Europeans left their homelands to travel through North Africa and the Middle East.
What are the Crusades?
Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to see this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This yellow vegetable allowed African empires to store excess food and harvest multiple times a year without worrying about rot and decay.
What is corn?
Want to give your loved ones some chocolates for the holidays? You couldn't before this massive trade of goods across the Atlantic Ocean, named for Christopher Columbus.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This empire controlled most of Europe and a part of Asia before the Middle Ages.
What is Rome?
This tool uses the Earth's magnetic field to find North and discern which direction you are going.
What is a compass?
This English explorer has more bodies of water named after him than anyone else; the large river near New York City bears his name.
This "resource" was exchanged accidentally, killing almost 90% of Native Americans.
What is disease?
Is March, everyone's Irish, wearing green and eating corned beef in celebration of this Saint.
Who is Saint Patrick?
This time of rebirth and widespread interest in the arts and sciences came after the Middle Ages. All ninja turtles are named after artists from this time.
What is the Renaissance?
This word refers to the act of traveling around the entire Earth.
What is circumnavigation?
Zheng He, an admiral and explorer from this country, started a trade empire in the Indian Ocean.
What is China?
This was the only livestock animal domesticated in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
What is the llama?
This traditional Christmas decoration comes from pagan Yuletide celebrations, in which evergreens were brought into homes.
What is the Christmas tree?