Famous Figures
This famous Italian artist painted The Last Supper and carefully studied human anatomy.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is the name given to the massive, stone-walled buildings where medieval kings and lords lived for safety.
What is a castle?
Historians go to this specific place to look at official historical documents and public records.
What is an archive?
This major historical event was caused by fleas on rats and wiped out roughly a third of the population in Medieval Europe.
What is the Black Death?
This is the name given to the poor, ordinary citizens of Ancient Rome.
What are plebeians?
He was the general of the Continental Army and went on to become the first-ever President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
These tall, narrow stone structures were built in Irish monasteries to protect monks and valuables from attackers (allegedly).
What is a round tower?
This primary source is a hand-written document or book produced by monks in a scriptorium.
What is a manuscript?
In 1773, American colonists disguised themselves and dumped crates of tea into the sea during this famous protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This was a medieval peasant who was legally tied to the land and could not leave the manor without permission.
What is a serf?
This German monk kicked off the Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to a church door.
Who is Martin Luther?
This was a multi-storey apartment block where poor plebeians lived in Ancient Rome.
What is an insulae?
This type of fast, sturdy ship was invented by the Portuguese to help sailors explore unknown oceans.
What is a caravel?
This was the name given to the brutal 16th-century Catholic Church courts used to find and punish heretics.
What is the Inquisition?
This was a young boy training to become a knight by serving meals and learning to ride horses.
What is a page?
This Italian scientist is famous for his Law of Falling Bodies and using a telescope to study astronomy.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This is a stone wall built around a plantation house in Ulster to defend it from attacks.
What is a bawn?
This archaeological method calculates the age of wooden objects by counting the rings inside the timber.
What is dendrochronology?
This 1607 event saw the Gaelic lords of Ulster flee Ireland for Europe, leaving their land to be confiscated by the King.
What is the Flight of the Earls?
This type of wealthy citizen in Ulster or Britain was granted land during the Plantation on the condition that they build a bawn.
What is an undertaker?
He was the Roman Catholic missionary sent to Ireland in the year 431 AD, just before St Patrick arrived.
Who is Palladius?
Wealthy Romans built this under-floor heating system to keep their villas warm.
What is a hypocaust?
This navigation tool used a floating log and a sandglass to measure a ship’s speed through the water.
What is a log and line?
This tragic event occurred when British soldiers fired into an angry crowd of colonists in Massachusetts in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was a fully trained medieval craftsman who traveled around working for daily wages before opening his own shop.
What is a journeyman?