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Due to a mathematical mystery about the earth’s roundness, and perhaps a wild imagination, Christopher Columbus believed the earth was shaped like this fruit.
What is a pear?
100
The story of Cortez’s Conquest of the Mexica begins with him betraying a former friend and political ally, this Governor of Cuba.
Who was Diego Velazquez?
100
Obsessed with legends of golden cities in South America, Francisco Pizarro led his expedition of conquistadors into the heart of this Empire that spanned nearly the entire continent’s length.
What is the Inca Empire?
100
Born Princess Amonute, she later took the name Rebecca when baptized in the Anglican faith, and yet she is forever known by her childhood nickname, which meant “unruly child”.
Who was Pocahontas?
100
This was Pixar's breakout debut movie, was an instant hit, and solidified an entire generation of films from their animation studio.
What is Toy Story?
200
In order to secure an audience with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Columbus befriended a priest who acted as this kind of ‘advisor’ to the Queen.
What was a confessor?
200
Moctezuma II was a political and mischievous brute whom the nobility of Tenochtitlan feared enough that he was named this term the Spaniards translated as King, more of a thug-in-chief than an absolute authoritarian though.
What was Tlatoani?
200
Hautnah Capac, Emperor of the Inca, died in a massive plague caused by European influence in Central America, leaving his two eldest sons to war over this native term for their Emperor.
What was Sapa Inca?
200
King Yellow Feather, better known by this native title for the King of the Wompanoag, was suspicious of Squanto for his embracing the “white man’s God”.
What was Massasoit?
200
Facebook launched in this year, which was the same year the Nintendo DS was launched and the Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
What is 2004?
300
When Columbus arrive the native populations of this more peaceful tribe that lived across the Caribbean was probably around 2 million strong.
Who were the Taino?
300
Cortes lost a little more than half of his army and all of the gold he’d amassed on this terrible night of June 30, 1520. It is said he wept bitterly and openly after escaping to safety.
What is “La Noche Triste”?
300
Pizarro had this victorious Emperor of the Inca executed for the crime of murdering his brother, Huascar, the former Emperor, without any authority to do so.
Who was Atahualpa?
300
Governor James White did not know that when he went for a resupply, that he wouldn’t return to his colony for three years due to a war, and then only to find this colony abandoned.
What was Roanoke?
300
This famous luxury car manufacturer provided the current model for the Popemobile, its Electric!
Who is Mercedes-Benz?
400
Columbus used basic astronomy known to most professionally trained navigators to predict this astronomical event to prove his “God’s power” should the native disobey him.
What is a solar eclipse?
400
This young girl had been enslaved to an Aztec Lord, only to be freed and idolized by Cortes (as he eventually marries her when she turns 18).
Who is Donna Isobel?
400
This labor system of the Inca became the basis of the Repartimiento Labor system that was only successful in the Spanish colonies of South America.
What was the mit’a system?
400
Unlike the Disney movie, the relationship between this man and Amonute was that of an adopted child and he more the kindly grandfather.
Who was John Smith?
400
Like golf, bowling will use bird terms to describe doing well, such as getting three strikes in a row is called this.
What is a Turkey?
500
The great transition and transportation of European goods, diseases and ideas entering the Americas as they cultivated and brought back to Europe unique plants and animals from the New World.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
500
The Mexican abandoned the fight when their “secret weapon” a warrior in a feathered outfit fighting with poison darts was easily killed causing the Mexica to believe this god had failed them.
Who was the Owl God?
500
Pizarro died after being tortured and beaten by his former conquistador allies, whom he’d cheated out of gold, after they’d caught up with him in this city he’d founded with the last of the gold he’d stolen.
What is Lima, Peru?
500
Fearing that the Fundamentalist Puritans would turn their new colony into a theocracy, the non-Puritans aboard the ship negotiated this contract on how the new colony’s government would work.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
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When Stranger Things Season 4 came out with 1.35 billion hours watched within 28 days, none thought the record would be broken so soon, and then in 2021, this Asian series hit 1.65 within 28 days.
What is Squid Game?