British Empire
In the 1500s, these two countries competed to see who could gain more wealth from overseas exploration?
Who is Spain and Portugal?
What is Stratford-upon-Avon?
This crop was unknown anywhere in the Old World before Columbus brought it to Europe.
What is corn?
What is California?
What is 700 years?
This queen encouraged English ships to raid Spanish ships carrying treasure.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
What is the Holy Trinity Church?
This explorer is credited for bringing potatoes from South America to Europe?
The Thirty Years' War started because of religious tension between these two groups.
What were Catholics and Protestants?
Who were the merchants?
This colony was the first successful permanent English colony in North America.
What was Jamestown?
This London theatre burned down in 1613 during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
What was the Globe theatre?
This crop has been around since before Christ and continues to be the most important food available the Asian population?
What is rice?
This event in Prague sparked the armed conflict all over Europe.
What is Protestants throwing Catholics out the window?
This event brought the first Portuguese traders to Japan.
What was a shipwreck?
New Netherlands was renamed to New Amsterdam after this group of settlers moved in.
Who are the Dutch?
Historians put Shakespeare's plays into these 3 main categories.
What are histories, tragedies, and comedies?
According to legend, Aztec emperor Montezuma hosted a Spanish explorer and provided this unsweetened drink?
What is chocolate drink?
The Thirty Years War devastated much of Europe, but was especially destructive to this county.
What is Germany?
The Samuri code of conduct called bushido translates in English to this.
What is "the way of the warrior"?
An English settlement on this island vanished without a trace in 1590s.
Where was Roanoke?
This well-known play set in Roman times was authored by William Shakespeare and was titled after a Roman Emperor.
What was Julius Ceasar?
The Kaldi goat is famed for discovering this Ethiopian crop.
What is coffee?
This series of treaties allowed each ruler to decide the official state church of the region.
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
This Shogunate ruler made the Christian belief considered treason and was punishable by death.
Who was Tokugawa?