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This art movement was the Catholic version of Dutch Golden Age art

What is Baroque?

100

England, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, captured this Caribbean island from Spain in 1655

Where is Jamaica?

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Called himself the Sun King

Who was Louis XIV?

100

Sailed the ocean blue in 1492

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

Louis XIV came from this French line of kings

Who are the Bourbons?

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Carlos II

Where is Spain?

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On the seas, the 100 years between 1650 and 1750 is known as this period

What is the 'Golden Age of Piracy'?

100

She was married to John Rackham aka Calico Jack

Who was Anne Bonny?

100

This trade system between West Africa, the Americas and Europe developed to exploit slaves from Africa and natural resources in the Americas

What is the Triangular Trade System?

100

She became the Queen of England after the death of her brother-in-law

Who was Queen Anne?

100

This is the term for Spanish explorers in Central and South America that became infamous for their brutality when conquering the indigenous populations

What is Conquistadors?

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Led the destruction of Montezuma II and his Aztec Empire

Who was Hernán Cortés?

100

The Sun King's cute little turds

What are Louis' Poohies?

100

'Black' pirate's flatulence 

What are Bart's farts?

100

Female shouts from Louis XIV's grand palace

What are Her Cries from Versailles?

200

These were pirates given the specific task of taking on Spanish ships

Who were Buccaneers?

200

This tax on non-Muslims was reimposed by Aurangzeb after his Great-Grandfather Akbar had repealed it

What is the Jizya tax?

200

Painted 'The Girl with the Pearl Earring' 

Who was Jan Vermeer?

200
Is the namesake for America

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

200

Louis XIV's 1st wife was from this country

Where is Spain?

200

Leopold I

Where is the Holy Roman Empire?

200

Otherwise known as 'sumptuous still lives'

What are Pronkstilleven?

200
He was a former privateer that was hung for his pirating crimes and left to rot in a cage

Who was Captain Kidd?

200

These were the two patriarchs from the two competing claims during the Question of Spanish Succession

Who were Louis XIV (France) and Leopold I (Austria)?

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He ended up on the Spanish throne at the end of the War of Spanish Succession

Who was Filipe V?

200

Despite his unfortunate face, Carlos II was married this many times

What is 2?

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Led the expeditions that led to the conquest of the Incan Empire in Peru

Who was Francisco Pizarro?

200

The English Queen recognized at the end of the War of Spanish Succession's summer glow

What is Anne's tan?

200

An Iberian country's stuggles

What are Spain's pains?

200

Turkey sauce from Peter the Great's greatest military focus

What is Navy Gravy?

300

This pirate's ship was always named 'The Royal Fortune'

Who was Bartholomew 'Black Bart' Roberts?

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This is the line of English monarchs in opposition to the Sophia line of succession

What is the Jacobean line?

300

Designed the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles

Who was Jules Hardouin-Mansart?

300

Is credited with leading the first circumnavigation of the globe, but was actually killed en route in the Philippines 

Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

300

Louis XIV's court at Versailles was filled with nobles that took on these roles which had jobs like 'master of the royal toilet'

Who were courtiers?

300

Jan Sobieski III

Where is Poland?

300

This is the term used for Dutch paintings of common, everyday life scenes

What is 'Genre Painting'?

300

He ravaged Panama and then most likely drank himself to death in Jamaica

Who was Captain Morgan?

300

Peter the Great travelled Europe to learn how to modernize his country with this large group of Russians

Who were the Grand Embassy?

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He effectively ended the Golden Age of piracy by offering a pardon to all pirates in 1717

Who was King George I?

300

This was the name Henry Every's flagship

What is the Fancy?

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Led a failed excursion to El Dorado and later declared war on Philip II and Spain

Who was Lope de Aguirre?

300

A very tall Romanov Czar's units of measurement

What are Peter's Meters?

300

The Night Watch painter's high schoolers

Who are van Rijn's teens?

300

Dutch Golden Age painter of energetic portraits' shopping centres

What are Hals' Malls?

400

These people were murdered in a genocide by the Dutch conquerer Jan Coen

Who were the Banda?

400

This landholding class of Prussians consolidated their power over the serfs in the years following the 30 Years War

Who were the Junkers?

400

Was the father of Carlos II

Who was Philip IV?

400

Was the first person to sail around Africa

Who was Vasco de Gama?

400

Louis XIV's gardens at Versailles were designed by this landscape architect

Who was Andre Le Notre?

400

Imre Thökölythe

Where is Hungary?

400

This is the term for still-life artworks that contain a skull to remind the viewer of the ever-present shadow of mortality

What is 'Memento Mori'?

400

He once stole a Mughal Empire treasure fleet worth the equivalent of 96 million dollars today

Who was Henry Every?

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Many members of the Spanish royal family did this superstitious practice to try and help their health

What is sharing their beds with corpses?

400
He was the Ottoman Sultan that launched the 1683 Siege of Vienna
Who was Mehmed IV?
400

Louis XIV benefited from this role created by Cardinal Richelieu that took away power from the provincial nobles

What were Intendants?

400

Led the Spanish conquest of Guatamala

Who was Pedro de Alvarado?

400

A little body of water from a period of French rebellion during Louis XIV's childhood

What is a Fronde Pond?

400

A female pirate's necklace components

What are Read's beads?

400

Blackbeard's old timey pants

What are Teach's Breaches?

500

This major battle in the War of Spanish Succession was a rout of the French by a combined Austrian and English force in Germany

What is the Battle of Blenheim?

500

This Catholic sect that believed in predestination was repressed by Louis XIV

Who were the Jansenists?

500

The Grand Vizier behind the failed 1683 Ottoman Siege of Vienna

Who was Kara Mustafa?

500

Is credited with the founding of the Dutch trading hub at Batavia in Indonesia

Who was Jan Pietersz Coen?

500
This mistress of Louis XIV was caught up in the Affair of the Poisons

Who was Athenais de Montespan?

500

Frederick William Hohenzollern

Where is Brandenburg-Prussia?

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The group of countries opposed to France in the War of Spanish Succession

What is the Grand Alliance?

500

He sieged Charleston, South Carolina and demanded medicine to treat the STDs that were ravaging his crew.

Who was Blackbeard (Edward Teach)?

500

The Pope divided the world outside of Europe between Spain and Portugal with these two treaties

What are the Treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza?

500

He was the father of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb that built the Taj Majal

Who was Shah Jahan?

500

She was the 2nd wife of Carlos II that was chosen for her family's famous fertility (her mother had 23 pregnancies)

Who was Maria Anna Neuberg?

500

Installed the encomienda system of forced labour during his governorship of the West Indies

Who was Nicolás de Ovando?

500

A Jedi Knight with Aurangzeb's matrilineal religious affiliation

Who is Mace Windu the Hindu?

500

Muslim pirate's paintbrush bristle materials

What is corsair horse hair?

500

The prince of Savoy's Levis

What are Eugene's Blue Jeans?

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