Who was the wealthy family in Florence that funded many artists during the Renaissance?
Who is the Medici Family
100
Who is that man that brought fire to the people of Greece by breaking off a piece of the sun?
Who is Prometheus
100
The Trojan War began because of the abduction of which Spartan queen according to classical sources?
Who is Helen of Sparta
100
What was the river that Egyptian civilizations depended on for flooding and irrigation?
What is the Nile
100
After what explorer is our continent named?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
200
What was the ancient Chinese philosophy that was used to bring an end to the Warring States Period in ancient China?
What is Legalism
200
Who was the very wealthy king who loved gold more than anything?
Who is King Midas
200
In what year was the last battle of the War of 1812?
What is 1815
200
What type of belief system did most early civilizations have?
What is polytheism
200
Who is that Spanish explorer that conquered the Incan empire?
Who is Francisco Pizarro
300
What was the pictographic script used by the ancient Egyptians involving symbols?
What is hieroglyphics
300
Who was the god that was thrown off Mount Olympus because he was ugly?
Who is Hephaestus
300
During the Fourth Crusade, the pope excommunicated the Crusaders because they sacked what Christian city?
What is Constantinople
300
What Chinese dynasty used tortoise shells and 'oracle bones' to communicate with the spirits which led to the first examples of Chinese writing?
What is the Shang Dynasty
300
Who is known as the first man to sail all the way around the world?
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
400
What is the song that children sing for fun, but actually describes the Black Death that spread across Europe?
What is "Ring around the Rosie"
400
Artemis and who were the twins that Zeus had with Leto?
Who is Apollo
400
The War of Roses was fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks, but was one by a leader of neither party named who?
Who is Henry Tudor
400
Who of this early Andes Mountains civilization carved enormous pictographs or glyphs into the desert floor that might be a form of ancient calendar?
Who is the Nazca
400
Who crossed Panama and was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean?
Who was Balboa
500
What is the year in which the United States was presented with a monumental gift from France?
What is 1886
500
According to legend, who fired the arrow that hit Achilles in the heel, his only vulnerable spot?
Who is Paris
500
What was the resolution of the 30 Years War?
What is the Treaty of Westphalia
500
Jarred Diamond began searching the world for answers to a question posed by Yali, a native of what tropical country where Diamond did his early research?
What is Papua New Guinea
500
What is today's name for the islands Columbus arrived at?