Fall of Rome
This type of leadership led to Rome's failure.
What is "bad leadership"?
This deadly disease spread through Europe in the 1300s.
What is the Black Death (bubonic plague)?
These fierce seafaring warriors came from Scandinavia.
Who were the Vikings?
The Medici family lived in this Italian Renaissance city.
What is Florence?
This famous Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Martin Luther was a monk who protested practices of this church.
What is the Catholic Church?
Industrialization began in this country in the late 1700s.
What is Great Britain?
This group of invaders from northern Europe attacked and weakened Rome.
Who were the Germanic tribes?
The disease spread mostly through fleas that lived on this animal.
What are rats?
Vikings believed this was different and more honorable than stealing.
What is looting?
The Medici family became powerful through this type of business.
What is banking?
This famous Renaissance artist painted The Last Supper.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Luther nailed these statements criticizing the church to a church door in 1517.
What are the 95 Theses?
Factories used this machine powered by steam to run equipment.
What is the steam engine?
Fighting between leaders caused ... in Rome, leading to less soldiers protecting its boarders.
About this fraction of Europe’s population died during the Black Death.
What is 1/3-2/3s?
Feudal villages put up these to prevent against Viking attacks.
What are walls?
The Medici Family helped fund this creative medium.
What are the arts (or art)?
Da Vinci protected his inventions by doing this.
What is writing in mirror script (backwards)?
The selling of these documents promising forgiveness of sins angered Luther.
What are indulgences?
This invention made weaving cloth much faster during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the power loom?
When leaders felt Rome was too large, they did this to it.
What is split it in half?
These painful swollen lumps appeared on victims of the bubonic plague.
What are buboes?
Vikings were known for traveling in these fast ships with dragon heads.
What are longships?
The Medici family helped fund artists and scholars as these supporters of the arts.
What are patrons?
This writer created famous plays such as Romeo and Juliet.
Who was William Shakespeare?
Luther’s actions started this major religious movement in Europe.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
When new cheep housing was demanded by laborers, cities began building these cramped apartment style homes.
What are tenements?
This problem occurred when Rome’s money lost value and prices rose.
What is inflation?
People blamed and often attacked this religious group unfairly during the plague.
Who were Jewish people?
Vikings discovered and settled this large "misnamed" icy island in the North Atlantic.
What is Greenland?
Two members of the Medici family eventually became leaders of this church.
What is the Catholic Church (popes)?
This Renaissance man created the telescope.
Who is Galileo?
What did the Reformation lead to?
What are new branches of Christianity.
Workers began forming these groups to demand better wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?