Disasters
What kind of natural disaster struck Japan in March 2011, devastating coastal communities and contributing to a nuclear accident at Fukushima?
A Tsunami
Monks represented one of the few literate populations in Medieval Europe. These men lived in settlements known as…
Monasteries
A large swarm of this biblical species is commonly referred to as a plague.
Locusts
Name the picture-based writing system the Egyptians used for monuments, tombs, and religious texts.
Hieroglyphics
The Red Army deposed the Emirate of Bukhara, Mohammed Alim Khan, in 1920, Mohammed was the last ruling descendant of whom?
Genghis Khan
Starting from an unextinguished flame in a bakery oven, which major European city was devastated by a fire in 1666?
London
Which famous document, created in 1215, outlined civil liberties for peasants?
During the Black Death, this species was massacred en masse due to the misguided belief they were the cause.
Cats
What is the name of the creature, combining a human head with a lion’s body, that guards the pyramid complex at Giza?
Sphinx
Who was the Mongol leader of China from 1271 to 1294?
Khubilai Khan
Legend has it, “Mrs. O’Leary’s cow” is to blame for the 1871 fire that devastated what American city?
Chicago
Medieval peasants often depended on their superiors—knights, barons, lords, and ladies—for their livelihoods. They were required to pledge their loyalty, money, and service in exchange for housing. This system had a specific name—what was it?
Feudalism
In Christian cultures plagues have often been seen as divinely ordained punishment for this kind of behavior.
Sin
What is the artifact whose discovery helped scholars decipher hieroglyphs, because the text was written in two Egyptian scripts as well as the well-known Greek?
The Rosetta Stone
What is Genghis Khan's real name?
Temujin
In 79 CE, pyroclastic flows from Mount Vesuvius’s eruption buried which Roman city, as well as its more famous neighbor, Pompeii?
Herculaneum
Emperor Charlemagne has been remembered for a number of reasons, but his greatest accomplishment is often considered to be…
The Unification of Christian Europe
Throughout the nineteenth century, European political leaders commonly referred to this political ideology as a plague (Multiple answers possible).
Republicanism, Jacobinism, Communism, Fascism, Nationalism
During mummification, what organ was usually left inside the body, as the Egyptians believed it to be the center of a person’s emotions, memory, and thought?
The Heart
What led to the destruction of the Mongol empire? (Multiple answers possible)
Black Death, Rebellion, Military defeats, Division
The Great Storm of 1703 occurred during the reign of this final Stuart monarch, who has just taken the English throne the previous year.
Queen Anne
During the Middle Ages, many Europeans believed in Humorism, a theory which dictated that four substances ruled human health, personality, etc. What are the four humors?
Phlegm, Blood, Black Bile, Yellow Bile
In 1518 this ‘plague’ spontaneously struck the Holy Roman Empire and resulted in the deaths of a couple hundred people from heart attacks, starvation, thirst, and exhaustion.
The Dancing Plague
Which pharaoh broke with traditional Egyptian religion by promoting monotheistic worship of the Aten and establishing a new capital?
Akhenaten
Mongol scholar, Jack Weatherford, wrote in “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world” about the Mongol’s role in facilitating what?
The Silk Road