Royalty
King Henry VIII was born in 1491 and died in this year, his 56th in life.
What is 1547?
Hernan Cortes met this Campaolan woman, who would become his wife when she turned 18, when she was a 13 year old slave of an Aztec Lord.
Who is Donna Isobel?
Christopher Columbus first encountered this native tribe while exploring the Bahamas.
Who are the Taino?
Coulrophobia, better known as the fear of this, is usually caused by childhood trauma or an extreme reaction to the 'Uncanny Valley', a psychological response to almost-human faces.
What are clowns?
The Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan was more akin to this type of strongman, whose entire job was to use physical violence and fear to keep the gears of government and society moving along.
What is Thug-In-Chief?
What's Missing?
"In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, _________ sailed the ocean blue."
Who is Columbus?
This civilization was highly advanced for its own time period, discovering the number '0' and brain surgery are only two examples. Which is why their abandoning of their own cities is a great mystery.
Who are the Maya?
If the President of the United States dies, it is THIS position in the US government who is immediately sworn in as the next President.
Who is the Vice President?
Princess Amonute Malakoa of the Powhatan Confederacy is best known, through legends and myths about her and Captain John Smith, by this name.
What is Pocahontas?
Seeking to create a military outpost to oppose the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean, Sir Walter Raleigh chose the barrier islands of the Carolinas for this twice failed colony that is now more of a fable about a lost colony.
What was Roanoke Colony?
Every day, during the height of this Empire, about 20,000 people were sacrificed to the gods, especially the Sun god, Huitzalopochtli.
Who are the Mexica/Aztec?
This mountain range is often considered small or less important to many, due to not being very large. However, this is because it is one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, predating plant life, the rings of Saturn, and it spans across three continents.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
He was first married to Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. She gave birth to their daughter, Mary, who remained a Catholic unlike her father. Catherine remained in love with him for the rest of her life, though he celebrated with his second wife when she died.
Who was Henry VIII?
Christopher Columbus's penchant to do this to the natives is among the few historical signs of the man's darker side, which would explain why even the Spanish Crown removed him as the Governor of Santiago.
What is cruel violence and slavery?
This word remained the great clue to the mysterious disappearance to the Roanoke colony, and is in fact the answer to that mystery, if people stopped being sensational about interesting stories.
What is Croatoan?
Until the 2000s, this was considered to be the 9th Planet in our solar system. However, scientists now understand that this planetoid should not be considered a planet. "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nothing?!"
What is Pluto?
Cuitalhuac raised high a broad stone and crushed the head of this man, his elder brother, and then took the great mantle of the Tlatoani and led his people in a great siege of the Palace.
Who was Moctezuma II?
Christopher Columbus believed the Earth was shaped like a pear, which to be honest was an odd conclusion. However, it was based in some mathematical inconsistencies due to the Earth not being perfectly this.
What is round?
They weren't cannibals at all, but were headhunters, often collecting the skin and heads of those they considered great warriors, and using them as magical bags and talismans.
Who were the Carib?
THIS extinct bird's name became synonymous with 'stupidity' due to their ignorance of humans and willingness to approach us and even walk into our traps. It wasn't stupidity, however, just the fact they were an apex predator that had never encountered humans before.
What is the Dodo?
While on a cultural expedition to London, this wife of John Rolfe spent most of her time going to balls, dances, and grand dinners, entertaining the royal family and nobility of London and advertising her husband's tobacco plantation. Unfortunately, it all came to an end in 1617.`
Who was Pocahontas?
Why didn't the Aztecs just immediately go to war with the Spanish? Its an honest question, and the truth is that tragically, Cortes's army and appearance aligned with this great draconic feathered serpent god.
Who was Quetzcoatl?
Humans are not aliens, as we are actually natives of this continent. So, the idea of the Earth being better off without us is absurd, as the best case for Earth would be with humans caring for the planet.
What is Africa?
In 1999, after professional wrestler, Mabel, broke Dennis Knight's ribs and THIS man's occipital bone around the eye, due to Mabel's weight and disregard for his fellow wrestler's health, THIS man decided to bring Mabel into his wrestling stable so, "we won't have to deal with him in the ring anymore."
Who is the Undertaker?