He painted the Mona Lisa and had a Code named after him.
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
The chaos of this system that Europe had lived under was a major motivation for the Renaissance.
What is feudalism.
100
This improvement from the system of hunting and gathering allowed early Native American tribes to grow crops and stay in one place.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
100
This group of hardcore raiders decided not to settle in Canada after they encountered many hostile natives, leaving behind only a NFL team in Minnesota.
Who are the Vikings?
100
This is the system in which states make and enforce their policies.
What is a government?
200
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and is the namesake of a nun-chuk wielding ninja turtle.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This invention allowed for wide distribution of written materials and encouraged literacy.
What is the printing press?
200
These stone buildings were what Native American tribes in the South West region lived in.
What are pueblos.
200
Who was the financial backer of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus' expedition?
What is Spain.
200
Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Muammar Gaddafi and Benito Mussolini were all leaders of this kind of government.
What is a dictatorship?
300
This author of "The Prince" advocated maintaining your power by any means necessary.
Who is Macchiavelli?
300
Trade throughout the Mediteranean made this country the birth place of the Renaissance.
What is Italy?
300
This extremely cold era occurred approximately 100,000 years ago, inspiring a series of animated movies featuring Manny, Sid and Diego.
What is the Ice Age?
300
This leader of the conquistadors was initially aided by the people of Mesoamerica because the believed he was the fulfillment of a prophecy.
Who is Cortes?
300
There are three branches of government in the United States. Name two.
What are Executive, Legislative and Judicial?
400
"To be or not to be...", "Now is the winter of our discontent..." and "A plague on both your houses." were all penned by this playwright.
Who is Shakespeare?
400
Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation broke from the traditions of this institution.
What is the Catholic Church?
400
This is thought to have once connected Asia and Alaska, allowing nomads to cross and populate North America.
What is a land bridge.
400
The ease of trading in this item enhanced the growth of French colonies in North America.
What is fur.
400
This economy is free and open to anyone but subject to government regulation.
What is a mixed economy?
500
All the renaissance men were part of this intellectual movement based on classic Greek and Roman culture.
What is Humanism?
500
This English King brought on his own reformation in order to attain a divorce from his wife.
Who is Henry VIII?
500
This rolling grassland climate was where the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai arose.
What is the savannah.
500
These were resources explorers going to North America were hoping to find.
What are gold and spices.
500
The price of an item will increase when there is a limited amount of it but everyone still wants it because of this law.