War
The people who controlled a vast military state dominating the coast of South America.
Who are the Incas?
The author of The Divine Comedy
Who is Dante?
A lost people who fell to Cortez
Who are the Aztecs?
This author believed that both society and the Roman Catholic church should be questioned.
Who was Geoffrey Chaucer?
A child's game was named after this explorer.
Who is Marco Polo?
As a youth, she heard voices that encouraged her to fight for France.
Who is Joan of Arc?
The author of the Canterbury Tales
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This is caused by a germ called Pasteurella pestis, was spread by fleas on rats, and killed millions of Europeans in just a few years.
What is the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
This was built to protect emperors from danger, especially from outsiders.
What is the Forbidden City?
These conquerors brilliantly gained access to the Golden Horn by rolling their ships over land on logs.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
This treaty, signed in 1420, gave the French crown to the English.
What is the Treaty of Troyes?
What is the Magna Carta?
What is the Children's Crusade?
A movement of people who protested against the Roman Catholic Church
What is the Protestant Reformation?
An explorer who stayed in China for more than 15 years
Who is Marco Polo?
This extremely long skirmish pitted England and France against one another for over a century.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
This was first printed in Germany using revolutionary technology.
What is Jerome's Latin Vulgate or the Gutenberg Bible?
The final Christian city that fell to Islamic control.
What is Constantinople?
He vowed himself to a life of poverty, but loved to learn and encouraged priests to higher education.
Who is St. Dominic?
This inventor explored the ideas of reflection and refraction, and predicted cars, planes, motorboats, and submarines.
Who is Roger Bacon?
This "brave heart" fought for Scotland's independence, but was eventually executed.
Who is Sir William Wallace?
The three sections of the Divine Comedy
What are Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purgatory), and Paradiso (heaven)?
This Spanish leader executed Atahualpa, toppling the Incan empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This used movable type to make the creation and copying of documents much easier.
What is the Gutenberg Press?
This leader was known as the "Amazement of the World" for his achievements.
Who is Frederick II?