Greece and Rome
Greek thinker who brought us the pulley system and the screw.
Who was Archimedes?
The technique that gave three dimensions to artwork.
What is perspective/vanishing points?
The empire is named after him.
Who was Osman Gazi?
This peasant-born revolutionary began the Ming Dynasty.
Who was Hongwu?
The type of economy found in 1400's Japan.
What is feudalism?
Roman emperor who converted the entire empire to Christianity.
Who was Constantine?
Perhaps the most famous sculpture of the Renaissance, it stands 17 feet tall.
What is David?
The Ottomans made their capital in this city, bordering both the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
What is Istanbul?
Hongwu's son who won the throne after his death and moved the capital to Beijing.
Who was Yonglo?
The first daimyo to legitimately almost conquer all of Japan and "rule by force."
Who was Oda Nobunaga?
The 200,000-seat Roman stadium made to watch chariot races and other athletic events.
What was the Circus Maximus?
The creator of the Presbyterian Church.
Who is John Knox?
The Ottoman leader who brought law & order to the empire.
Who was Suleyman?
Silk and porcelain were often smuggled out of this Chinese city. Captain Jack would be proud!
What was Macao?
After Nobunaga's death, this general took over and turned his attention toward invasions of Korea and China.
Who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
The Roman emperor who started the Forum and brought much wealth into the empire.
Who was Trajan?
This great writer of the Renaissance changed politics in Europe for the next 250 years with his thoughts.
Who was Niccolo Machiavelli?
This leader represented the low-point of the empire, causing the boundaries to decrease into modern-day Turkey.
Who was Nadir Shah?
The Qing Dynasty began when people from this northern Chinese region conquered Beijing.
What was Manchuria?
The daimyo who finally conquered all of Japan after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu?
A carefully crafted engineering project that brought clean, fresh water into Rome.
What is an aqueduct?
This writer of Utopia satirized the way we look at society.
Who was Thomas More?
This emperor led over the highest point of the empire, during which all three holy cities of Islam were under Ottoman influence?
Who was Mehmed II?
The first leader of the Qing who lowered taxes and allowed minimal European trade into China for a "kowtow."
Who was Kangxi?
Ieyasu moved Japan's capital from Kyoto to this city, which is now known as Tokyo and still Japan's capital.
What was Edo?