Art and Music in History
The oldest kind of instrument (that we have discovered)
What is the (bone) flute?
The number that the Babylonian numerical system was based around
What is 60?
The food/vegetable/root that came from the Americas via the Columbian exchange and was regarded with fear and confusion despite it being a good source of nutrients
(Hint: Frederick II may have tricked peasants into eating this food)
What is the potato?
The church that the Protestants split from
What is the Catholic Church?
What is the ancient era/classical era/antiquity?
The country that heavily inspired Ancient Roman art and architecture
What is (Ancient) Greece?
The Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem and began a school of math
Who is Pythagoras?
The name of the large desert in Africa where much trade took place
What is the Sahara?
The name of the event where three Catholic officials were thrown out of a window by Bohemian Protestants
What is the Defenestration of Prague?
The number 9 in Roman numerals
What is IX?
The era of music characterized by the first operas and composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach
What is baroque?
The groundbreaking book published by Isaac Newton in 1687, setting the laws of mechanics
(Shortened name is accepted)
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica or Principia
The 4000 mile long trade route linking China to the Middle East and Europe
What is the Silk Road/Silk Roads/Silk Routes?
The Catholic Church's response to the Reformation
Included the Council of Trent
What is the Counter Reformation?
The soda company that briefly became the sixth largest navy in the world
More famously known as Coca Cola's competitor
What is Pepsi?
The era of art characterized by strong emotions and excessive decoration
What is baroque?
The act of drawing conclusions from repeated observations
And the basis for Bacon's Scientific Method
What is inductive reasoning?
The economic theory of maximizing profit and only allowing colonies to trade with their mother country
What is mercantilism?
The European counterpart to the French and Indian War
(Hint: lasted 1756-1763)
What is the Seven Years' War?
The country containing England, Scotland, and Wales, that colonized the 13 colonies
What is Great Britain?
The era of art that began the modern era and saw developments of new technique and creativity as well as revived interest in Greco-Roman art
What is the Renaissance?
IIII IIIII in rod numerals translated to Arabic numerals
405
The sea-based trade routes that mostly took place in the Indian Ocean basin
What is the Indian Ocean Trade?
The church that Henry VIII created and became the head of after splitting from the Catholic Church
What is the Anglican Church?
The two mathematicians who both invented calculus and start a century-long rift in European mathematics
(first or last names are accepted)
Who are Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz?