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100

This institution, where officials elected by the Roman citizens made laws, also exists in America today.

What is the Senate?

100

This country is the home of Islam, with its most holy city, Mecca.

What is Saudi Arabia?

100

This indigenous Empire spanned most of Mexico and parts of central America.

What is Aztec?

100

These are the two main forms of Islam.

What are Sunni and Shia?

100

This Italian philosopher gave us the idea that "the end justifies the means".

Who was Machiavelli?

200

This country was home to the Renaissance.

What is Italy?

200

Japan is an archipelago with this number of MAIN islands.

What are four?

200

He was the ruler of the Inca who was kidnapped, tried and executed by the Pizarro brothers.

Who was Atahualpa?

200

This is the title of the head of the Catholic Church.

What is Pope?

200

He wrote the Social Contract.

Who was Jean Jacques Rousseau?

300

Philosophes were Enlightenment thinkers from this country.

What is France?

300

The Moghul rulers of India practiced this religion, a combination of Islam and Hinduism.

What is Sikhism?

300

This modern day country was the center of the Inca Empire.

What is Peru?

300

This city-state and independent country, surrounded by Rome, is the center of the Catholic Church.

What is the Vatican (or Vatican City)?

300

This is the sea which leads from the Indian Ocean to the Suez Canal.

What is the Red Sea?

400

This country was the first to have a constitutional monarchy, meaning there was a constitution, a democratically elected parliament and a king.

What is England (not yet the UK at that time)?

400
This was the name of the military dictatorship of Japan, which ruled successfully for hundreds of years.

What is the Shogun?

400

This people, whose empire was primarily in present day Guatemala and Honduras, built great pyramids like the ones at Copan.

Who were the Maya?
400

This is the term for a priest in Judaism, it actually means "father".

What is Rabbi?

400

This is how the title of an Internet article appear in a citation.

What is in quotation marks or inverted commas?

500

Columbus was from Genova, Italy.  He sailed to the Americas from this country in 1492.

What is Spain?

500

This is the largest river in India and is holy to Hindus.

What is the Ganges?

500

This is the English translation of "conquistador".

What is "conqueror"?

500

This is the name of the oldest major form of Christianity.  

What is Orthodox (or Eastern Orthodox)?

500

This is the English translation of AD (Anno Domini).

What is "In the year of our Lord"?

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