Ancient Greece and Rome
This place in Greece was home to Socrates and Plato.
What is Athens?
This man was nicknamed "defender of the faith" by the pope.
After Rome fell, people started living in these self-sufficient places.
What is a feudal manor?
This man was the leader of the first crusades.
Who was Pope Urban?
This man was a farmer who was asked to become dictator for a short period to save Rome from invaders.
Who was Cincinnatus?
This is a type of government where people vote directly on policies and laws.
What is Direct Democracy?
A movement to reform the Catholic Church of its abuses. Most notably, the selling of indulgences.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
An oral agreement between a lord and his vassal
What is a Feudal contract?
Anywhere between 25% and 50% of Europe’s population had fallen victim to this plague and died.
What is the Black Death?
This man crossed the Rubicon river in an attempt to take control of Rome.
Who was Caesar?
This Greek city state was heavily militaristic, even their women trained in order to create strong babies.
What is Sparta?
A long document that describes the abuses of the Catholic Church.
What is the 95 Thesis?
This determined the guilt or innocence of a knight by fighting another knight.
What is trial by combat?
When you get rid of a few “bad apples” and you strengthen the bunch.
What is addition by subtraction?
This Roman leader was a practitioner of stoic philosophy.
Who was Marcus Aurelius?
This man was put on trial because he "corrupted the young and preaching false gods"
Who was Socrates?
This was King Henry VIII's first wife and is the reason for his issues with the Catholic church.
Who was Catherine of Aragon?
A piece of land that has been bequeathed to a lord by his king.
What is fief?
The study of the earth, its features and human interaction with it.
What is geography?
This Roman emperor spread Christianity and helped it become on the worlds largest religions.
Who is Constantine?
This was the book that Plato wrote that serves as a blueprint for a perfect society.
What is the Republic?
This daughter of King Henry become known as the "Virgin Queen".
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
This group of people were frothing at the mouth, had hairy backs, and weighed approximately 500 pounds. They pillaged feudal manors when ever they wanted to.
Who were the Vikings?
This was written in order to protect the people against King John's arbitrary rulings.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Roman leader split the Empire because it was too big to control.
Who was Diocletian?