Classification of Time
Trading and Religion
Exploration and Explorers
Renaissance
Miscellaneous
Definitions
100
Time period from the beginning of human life on Earth. No written records.
What is Pre-History?
100
A famous trade route across Central Asia during ancient times.
What is the Silk Road?
100
Explorer who started a settlement called Vinland in Canada.
Who is Leif Ericson?
100
Painter who painted the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
Who is Michelangelo?
100
pleaded for all Christians to fight against Muslims to regain Holy Land
Who is Pope Urban II
100
An instrument used to help captains navigate the seas.
What is an astrolabe? Or What is a compass?
200
The era (time period) between 476 AD and the 1450s AD
What is the Middle Ages?
200
Founder of Islam
Who is Muhammed?
200
Credited with "discovering" the New World because he wrote about it.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
Renaissance means
What is rebirth?
200
time period that was characterized by a decline in learning and culture
What is the Dark Ages?
200
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
300
Main time period when Hammurabi's Code of 1754 BC was written.
What is Ancient History?
300
Italian who traveled eastward on the Silk Road through China and was the first European to write about his adventures.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
exploration provided people with the opportunity to learn about each other's cultures, this led to
What is violence or war?
300
DaVinci was a painter with a famous painting of a woman that is housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris - Name the painting
What is the Mona Lisa?
300
First document to grant the common people some basic human rights by a royalty figure. It provided inspiration for the United States Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
Belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
400
A time of rebirth when the arts, literature, and science experienced amazing changes.
Wht is the Renaissance?
400
The world's largest religion.
What is Christianity?
400
Line that split the 'New World" in half; Spain claimed new land to the west of the line and Portugal claimed land to the east of the line.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
400
What is the Pieta? Sculpted by Michelangelo
400
Invented the printing press in the 1450s.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
400
Wars in which the Christians attempted to reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims (Islam).
What are the Crusades?
500
The time period that starts around 1453 and continues to present day.
What is Modern History?
500
Founder of Judaism
Who is Abraham?
500
Reasons the Age of Discovery was a scary time for sailors
What is they had limited knowledge of the earth and they had superstitions (believed in sea monsters)?
500
Renaissance painter who was also an inventor
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
500
Launched a huge change in the Catholic religion and started the Protestant Reformation .
Who is Martin Luther?
500
To go against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
What is heresy?
600
disease that killed millions of people during the Middle Ages
What is the Black Death or plague?
600
Reason Islam spread rapidly
What is lower amount to be paid to Allah?
What is promoted trading more than others?
What is lots of wars where Islamic armies conquered new lands?
600
Credited with being the first man to sail around the world.
Who is Magellan?
600
Name of the route explorers were looking for by sailing west from Europe
What is the Northwest Passage?
600
document nailed to a church door outlining disagreements with the Catholic Church
What is the 95 Theses?
600
Being officially banished from the church.
What is excommunicated?