Place known for practicing mummification and building pyramids.
What is Egypt?
100
Macbeth was king of this country.
What is Scotland?
100
Won the battle of tours.
Who is Charles Martel?
200
Under this dynasty, General Zhao Kuang Yin was able to pull China back together after many years of unrest.
What is the Song Dynasty?
200
Nickname given to Leif Ericsson after he rescued people from a sinking ship.
What is "Leif the Lucky"?
200
Group that invaded Egypt and almost obliterated the Copts.
Who are the Muslims?
200
Playwright who took the story of Macbeth and wrote a tragedy about it.
Who is Shakespeare?
200
He became a missionary to Scotland, pledging to lead at least 3,000 souls to Christ.
Who is Columba?
300
"lily feet"
What are the tiny feet that the Chinese valued in woman?
300
Poems written by the Vikings that were left behind and offer insight into their history and travel.
What are sagas?
300
Egyptian Christians
Who are "Copts"?
300
What Spanish tradition calls El Cid; what he is known as.
What is a true hero?
300
Saint of Hippo, who was gifted in the art of rhetoric and wrote several Christian classics, including Confessions, On the Trinity, and The City of God.
Who is St. Augustine?
400
The social group that was placed in the middle of China's social hierarchy (unlike the Europeans that place them at the bottom, of least importance).
What are the poor peasant farmers?
400
Name Leif gave his final stop (that was possibly off the coast of Canada) because of its grapes.
What is Vinland, or "Wineland"?
400
Apostle who Copts claim started the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Who is Mark?
400
A "freebooter"
Who is a person who would accept employment from anyone who needed his fighting skills?
400
Though ruins of the Maya were hidden for centuries, the Mayan people once dominated this region.
What is Mexico and Central America?
500
The man who stole the throne from a 7-year old emperor and started the Song dynasty in 960.
Who is General Zhao Kuang Yin?
500
The person instrumental in exposing Leif Ericsson to Christianity.
Who is Olaf Tryggvason, the King of Norway?
500
The birthplace of Mohammed and the center of Islam that sits close to Egypt; this situation made Egypt a perfect target for invasion.
What is Saudi Arabia?
500
The name for the takeover, or taking back of Spain from the Muslims that took about 450 years.