Languages
This language was the prestige language of England after the Battle of Hastings. (Which is dumb.) It wasn't until Henry IV that a King of England would speak English again as a mother tongue.
What is Anglo-Norman French?
This war, which began in the fourteenth century, saw the end of the English crown's holdings in France.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
The name of this island empire has its origins in a letter which reads, "The sovereign of the land where the sun rises is sending this mail to the sovereign of the land where the sun sets".
What is Japan?
This french term refers to leather that has been hardened by boiling.
What is cuir bouilli?
Born in June of AS 50, this is the youngest of the Laurel kingdoms.
What is Avacal?
This East Germanic language is the oldest Germanic language from which we have a significant corpus. Its unique alphabet borrows from both Greek and Germanic sources.
What is Gothic?
This Chivalric Order was founded by Edward III in 1348 and exists to this day.
What is the Order of the Garter?
This country's English exonym, first recorded in 1555, derives from the Sanskrit language of its southern neighbor. It's endonym can be translated as Middle Kingdom or Central State.
What is China?
In defensive architecture, this element comprises a parapet in which gaps or indentations occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defenses.
What are battlements/crenellations/ crenels/embrasures?
The "children" of this kingdom are sometimes called "Sons of the Dragon".
What is the Middle Kingdom/Midrealm?
This language, belonging to the Germanic family, has its first written attestation in the 1272 Worms Machzor, or prayer book.
What is Yiddish?
This catastrophic event is believed to have made "landfall" in Sicily in 1347, before sweeping north and is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population.
Founded in 1526 by Babur, this empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan plateau in South India.
What is the Mughal Empire?
These long-hafted axes of the early middle ages possessed a wide, thin blade, with pronounced "horns" at both the toe and heel of the bit.
What is a Dane Axe/English long axe/Danish axe/hafted axe?
These three kingdoms are the principal kingdoms of Pennsic War.
What are East, Middle, and Aethelmearc?
The first surviving major text in this language is John Barbour's Brus (1375), composed under the patronage of King Robert II. It is often misunderstood to be a northern dialect of English.
What is Scots?
This catastrophic event between 1315-1317/22 lead to the death of millions across Europe and was marked by extreme levels of crime, disease, death, and even cannibalism and infanticide.
What is the Great Famine?
Lending its name to the northernmost region of Asia, this Khanate existed from 1468-1598.
What is the Khanate of Sibir/Siberia?
This open-faced helmet first appeared in the 1280s. It typically had a more pointed top and it extended downwards at the rear and sides to afford protection to the base of the skull and neck. Later innovations included the addition of a breteche or a klappvisor.
What is a bascinet/bassinet/basinet/bazineto?
The first coronation in this kingdom had to be delayed due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
What is Gleann Abhann?
This language is the last surviving descendant of the Eastern Romance family that arose from the Vulgar Latin spoken in southern central Europe.
What is Romanian?
This founder of the Timurid Empire was an descendant of Genghis Khan and sometime correspondent with the kings of France.
Who is Timur/Tamerlane?
This civilization, found in modern day Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, played a strong role in the rise of the silk road. They are particularly well know for the sumptuous silks worn by their elite.
What is Sogdia/Sogdiana?
This is believed to have been the largest trebuchet ever constructed. It was created in Scotland by order of King Edward I of England, during the siege of Stirling Castle.
What is the War Wolf (of Ludgar)/Loup de Guerre/Lupus Guerre?
This kingdom has claimed to rule both Space (at least the Moon and Mars) and Antarctica. Both claims are disputed.
What is Trimaris?