Business of War
Highway to Hell
Soldiers
Rhyme Time
100
This is the french word for a military contractor.
What is a condottiere?
100
This was the first sign an army was on their way to your town.
What is disease?
100
These soldiers fought for fixed wages, were loyal to their paymaster, and replaced volunteer and part-time soldiers.
What are mercenary soldiers?
100
This country was the entrance point of many goods from the Americas, while under the "reign" of Philip II.
What is Spain?
200
They are the mercenary and the banker who profited the most from the business of war.
Who are Wallenstein and De Witte?
200
These structures were effective in defense against soldiers.
What are walls?
200
Mercenaries became dangerous and volatile when this happened.
What is a lack of payment?
200
This disease costed millions more than just an arm and a "leg".
What is the Plague?
300
These were 3 methods used to fill army rosters with cheap soldiers.
What are emptying prisons, pardoning criminals, and rounding up vagrants?
300
The Spanish road connected these 2 locations.
What are Flanders and Italy?
300
These people made up the 7,000 camp followers behind the Spanish army.
Who are prostitutes, wives and girlfriends, children, business men and women, and laborers?
300
These locations fell victim to countless "pillages" by foreign soldiers.
What are villages?
400
Wallenstein and De Witte died by these 2 different methods.
What are by Irish Mercenary hands (murder) and drowning in a well (suicide)?
400
This caused villagers to take refuge in nearby forests.
What is the looting and burning of villages?
400
These were set up as supply stations for traveling soldiers.
What are Etapes?
400
This invention, rhyming with "louder", was a major influence on the change from medieval warfare to the business of war.
What is gunpowder?
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