Geography
The Inca civilization was based in this mountain range.
What are the Andes Mountains?
These wars were fought as Napoleon rampaged his way through Europe in a pursuit of greater control.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
Monarchs throughout history, and especially in Europe, have used this right as a justification for their absolute power.
What is Divine Right?
After the conclusion of WWII, this worldwide bureaucracy was created to ensure that such a war would never happen again.
What is the UN?
This Russian monarch is renowned for his incredible brutality and absolutist rule, even going as far as to murder his own son and end his own lineage.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
Napoleon's army was unable to conquer this country during a harsh winter.
What is Russia?
This is the term for the Japanese military dictatorship that existed during the Feudal era.
What is Shogunate?
This event occured when the Catholic Church, having more than one Pope, broke apart into different factions.
What is the Schism?
This revolution was defined by a shift from strict depictions of God and religion in art to a more humanist approach inspired by Greco-Roman culture.
What is the Renaissance?
This monarch is famous saying of hungry peasants, "Let them eat cake".
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This body of water separates Great Britain and France and has defined much of the former's history.
What is the English Channel?
World War One began when Bosnian terrorist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand, causing Austria-Hungary to declare war on this small country.
What is Serbia?
Michaelangelo's famous painting, Creation of Adam, depicts God first creatin mankind and can be found in this Vatican church.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
Montesquieu's model of federal government uses these three branches that were later used by the U.S. (100 points for each correct answer)
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
This explorer is famous for being the first man to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Magellan?
These are the four main islands of The Japanese Archipelago. (100 points for each correct response)
What are Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikouko, Kyushu?
This war between England and France led to the rise of Joan of Arc and secured the future of France as its own nation.
What is the Hundred Years War?
This religion was created by a movement that was begun by Martin Luther after he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church for his work, 95 Theses.
What is Protestantism?
This palace built by Louis XIV was a paragon of the opulence and excess that defined the French Monarcy during the 18th and 19th Centuries
What is Versailles?
This astronomer challenged the Catholic Church's geocentric theory and proved the theories posed by Copernicus and Kepler.
Who is Galileo?
Christopher Columbus believed he landed in the Indies, but we now know that he landed here instead.
What is the Carribean?
These are the five main factors that led to the outbreak of WWI. (100 points for each correct answer)
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, and Economics?
This religion revolves around supernatural entities called "kami" and is native to Japan.
What is Shintoism?
This group of soldiers took over the Aztec Empire and claimed what is now known as Mexico for Spain.
What is The Conquistadors?
This Pope is credited with creating the calendar that we use today.
Who is Pope Gregory XIII?