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100
This man was the top of the Egyptian social hierarchy.
Who was the pharaoh?
100
This holy city was the goal for all sides fighting in the crusades.
What is Jerusalem?
100
This country was the only area of Africa that was colonized by Europeans.
What is Ethiopia?
100
This is another name for the area known as Israel.
What is Palestine?
100
Ferdinand and Isabella, the Spanish King and Queen who encouraged the Inquisition in their country, would late fund the travels of this man, often credited with "discovering" the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This was the name of the top tier in Indian caste system. These spiritual people were believed to be able to hear the vibrations of the universe and guide men.
Who are Brahmins?
200
These religious trials carried out by the Roman Catholic church were meant to root out dissenters.
What were inquisitions?
200
This is the idea that your beliefs and culture is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
This country had fighting between Catholics and Protestants from the late 1960s to 1998.
What is Ireland?
200
This Italian astronomer was put on trial for promoting the theory that the earth revolved around the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
300
People with this role in society were at the top tiers of the social hierarchies of both Egypt and India.
Who are priests?
300
The original ally of Western European Catholics, this empire later became their enemy towards the end of the crusades.
Who is the Byzantine Empire?
300
This religion was used to justify the ideas of both slavery and colonialism.
What is Christianity?
300
This country's struggles between Hindus and Muslims continues as far-right leaders restrict rights available to Muslim immigrants.
What is India?
300
When people in the Inquisitions were found guilty of this "h" word, they could either pray for forgiveness and change or be put to death.
What is heresy?
400
They made up 80% of the Egyptian social heirarchy.
Who are slaves?
400
This is the use of money to buy things instead of trading goods or bartering. It was heavily impacted by the Crusades.
What is commercialism?
400
While the British saw African countries as backwards and uncivilized, this country wanted to spread their culture and make Africans more like the native people in this country.
What is France?
400
The Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar have been persecuted against by the country's political leaders who are mainly of this faith.
What is Buddhism?
400
This is the mosque that currently sits on what was formerly the temple mount in Jerusalem.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
500
These people, also known as dalits, are most often seen carrying out the least wanted jobs in India.
Who are untouchables?
500
This priest was responsible for the deaths of more than 2,000 people during the Spanish Inquisition.
Who was Tomas de Torquemada?
500
This king, who also beheaded two of his wives, had Africans at his court in England as far back as the early 1500s.
Who is Henry VIII?
500
This terrorist group has waged war against Nigerian leaders for more than a decade.
Who is Boko Haram?
500
This is the name of the theory that the earth and all planets revolve around the sun.
What is heliocentrism?