Kings and Queens
This king founded the city of Rome.
Who was Romulus?
This civilization, known for its elaborate cities, temples, and human sacrifices, was conquered by Hernan Cortez.
Who were the Aztecs?
The explorer who landed in the Bahamas in 1492, ”discovering” the New World for Spain.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This man is known for his three laws of motion, his discovery of the laws of gravity, and his “invention” of Calculus.
Who was Isaac Newton?
This dynasty of Ancient Rome included Augustus, Tiberius, and Nero.
Who were the Julio-Claudians?
This king oversaw the Norman Invasion and became the first ruler of modern England.
Who was William I?
This lost city of the Incas was discovered by Hiram Bingham.
What was Maccu Picchu?
The Viking explorer who founded Vinland, likely the first European to set foot on the New World.
Who was Leif Eriksson?
Copernicus, Galileo, and Brahe were all scientists known for promoting this theory about the Solar System.
What is heliocentricism?
This English dynasty included Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I,
Who were the Tudors?
This king of France was crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Who was Charlemagne?
The first humans to inhabit North America crossed a land bridge at this strait in Alaska.
What is the Bering Strait?
This “city of gold” in South America likely never existed, but led thousands of deluded explorers to their dooms.
What is El Dorado?
This key aspect of modern science was first codified by Francis Bacon in the 1500s based on earlier ideas of Aristotle.
What is the scientific method?
This Chinese Dynasty, the earliest with archaeological evidence, was known for its use of oracle bones.
What was the Shang dynasty?
This queen of England remained a widow after the death of her husband Albert, and oversaw an era of British history named for her that lasted from the 1830s to the early 1900s.
Who was Victoria?
This civilization in Ancient Mesoamerica was known for building giant stone heads.
Who were the Olmecs?
What is the caravel?
This disease, responsible for the decimation of Native American societies after the Columbian Exchange, is the only major disease that has been functionally eradicated by vaccination.
What was Smallpox?
This dynasty of Egypt included fifteen kings of the same name, as well as Queen Cleopatra.
Who were the Ptolemaic dynasty?
This king was the first ruler of modern Italy, uniting the country from its divided city states.
Who was Victor Emmanuel II?
This ancient Native American city was located adjacent to modern Saint Louis and was the capital of the Mississippian or Mound Building society.
What was Cahokia?
This British explorer and missionary spent so many years in Central Africa that he had to be rescued by a group led by Henry Morton Stanley. Upon finding him, Stanley famously said “Dr. _________, I presume?”
Who was David Livingstone?
This Ancient Greek mathematician is responsible for many of the foundations of Geometry, which he outlined in his book “The Elements”.
Who was Euclid?
Scottish rebels such as Bonnie Prince Charlie persisted for decades to restore this dynasty to the English throne after it was deposed in the Glorious Revolution.
What was the Stuart Dynasty?