Kings and Queens
Renaissance and Reform
Exploring and Exploiting
Empires and Colonies
Revolution
100
Area, sometimes as large as a country, ruled by a monarch
What is a kingdom
100
Sculpted the David and the Pieta, painted the Sistine Chapel, and designed St. Peter's Basilica
Who is Michelangelo
100
Credited with discovering America, although it had already been occupied by Asians, Africans, Native Americans, and Norseman.
Who is Christopher Columbus
100
A group of thirteen British Colonies in North America
What is the American Colonies
100
A device used to decapitate criminals during the French Revolution
What is the guillotine
200
Mythical king during the crusades who searched for the Holy Grail
Who is King Arthur
200
Writer, poet, painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and all around Renaissance man
Who is Leonardo dd Vinci
200
A global system of trade made up of the sale of people rather than goods
What is the Slave Trade
200
Once an empire that included the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and South Africa
What is the British Empire
200
King Louis' mistress, not queen, who famously said to let the starving people of Paris "eat cake"
Who is Marie Antoinette
300
Sometimes known as the "Virgin Queen" of England because she never married
Who is Queen Elizabeth I
300
Led a protestant reform in Germany and became the founder of the Lutheran Church
Who is Martin Luther
300
While most of Latin America was colonized by the Spanish, this country gained total control of Brazil through the Treaty of Tordesillas
What is Portugal
300
Leader of the French Empire that encompassed much of the European continent before being exiled
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
300
A Russian bishop for the Czars, he escaped several assassination attempts including being shot, tortured, poisoned, and eventually drowned
Who is Rasputin
400
The King of Castille and Princess of Aragon whose marriage united two kingdoms into a stronger Spanish Empire
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella
400
The first split in the Christian Church, creating a Western (Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) church
What is the Great Schism
400
Philosophers like John Locke and Thomas Hobbs who contemplated the relationship between citizens and their government
Who were the Enlightenment thinkers
400
Places like Martinique, Louisiana, and Vietnam were once part of this European empire
What is France
400
South American revolutionary often compared to George Washington, they named Bolivia after him
Who is Simon Bolivar
500
Passed by King John, this article was the first major step towards creating a constitution for the English government
What is the Magna Carta
500
City in Northern Italy viewed as being the epicenter of the Italian Renaissance, and home to Leonardo di Vinci
What is Florence
500
The most famous pirate to be legitimized by the English crown, because he raided French and Spanish trade vessels, they even made him a knight
Who is Sir Francis Drake
500
The Berlin Conference in 1884 split this continent up amongst Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom
What is Africa
500
The leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, his body is permanently embalmed in the Kremlin in Moscow
Who is Vladimir Lenin
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