Agricultural Revolution
Before farming, most humans survived by doing these two activities.
Answer: What are hunting and gathering?
This Renaissance idea focused on human potential and achievements.
Answer: What is Humanism?
This German monk began the Reformation by posting the 95 Theses.
Answer: Who is Martin Luther?
This empire captured Constantinople in 1453.
Answer: What is the Ottoman Empire?
I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water. What am I?
Answer: What is a map?
This development allowed people to settle permanently in one place.
Answer: What is agriculture (farming)?
Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci used this technique to make paintings appear three-dimensional.
Answer: What is Perspective?
Reformers criticized the Catholic Church for selling these, which supposedly reduced punishment for sins.
Answer: What are indulgences?
These elite Ottoman soldiers were taken as boys and trained for military service.
Answer: Who were the Janissaries?
You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
Answer: What is the letter E?
The practice of bringing water to crops through canals or ditches is called this.
Answer: What is irrigation?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg helped spread Renaissance ideas across Europe.
Answer: What is the printing press?
According to Martin Luther, salvation could be achieved through this rather than good works or payments.
Answer: What is faith alone?
This empire was centered in Persia and practiced Shia Islam.
Answer: What is the Safavid Empire?
The person who makes me doesn't need me. The person who buys me doesn't use me. The person who uses me doesn't know it. What am I?
Answer: What is a coffin?
One major result of the Agricultural Revolution was a rapid increase in this.
Answer: What is population growth?
Renaissance means this in French.
Answer: What is rebirth?
Despite its strange name, this 1521 assembly had nothing to do with insects and everything to do with Martin Luther.
Answer: What is the Diet of Worms?
This empire ruled much of India and was known for religious tolerance under Akbar.
Answer: What is the Mughal Empire?
I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: What is a feather?
Because people produced extra food, they no longer all had to farm. This led to this process.
Answer: What is job specialization?
Name two works of art by Leonardo Davinci
Answer: What is the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper?
The Reformation led to the creation of these Christian churches separate from the Catholic Church.
Answer: What are Protestant churches?
Give me the title for the rulers for at least 2 of the empires we learned about
What is Sultan and Shah?
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him underwater for five minutes. Finally, she hangs him. Ten minutes later, they enjoy dinner together. How is this possible?
Answer: She is a photographer....she shot a picture of him, developed it in water, and hung the photo to dry.