Beginning of Civilization
Revolutions
The Middle Ages & Islam
The Renaissance
Ancient Greece and Rome
100
What was the name of the first civilization?
What is Mesopotamia
100
The switch from domestic economies to industrial economies was called the
The Industrial Revolution
100
Who's empire held the Carolingian Renaissance?
Who is Charlemagne
100
What is this painting called?
The Mona Lisa
100
Games in Greece to show strength of a city state
What is The olympics
200
Empires are much easier to create than to
What is maintain
200
From nomadic lifestyle to... SETTLED Communities?!
What is the Neolithic Revolution
200
What was the only real governing authority in Western Europe after the fall of Rome?
What is the Catholic Church
200
Which famous Renaissance sculptor crafted this statue of David?
Who is Michelangelo
200
Homers 2 great epics
The Iliad and The Odyssey
300
Name the first system of writing ever created (yay Sumerians!).
What is Cuneiform
300
How is revolution different from evolution?
What is Revolution is big change at a rapid pace, evolution is big change at a slow pace.
300
Which battle stopped Islam from flooding into Christendom (Christian Europe)?
What is the Battle of Tours
300
In which city did the Renaissance begin?
Where is Florence, Italy
300
Last Egyptian Queen
Who is Cleopatra
400
most people during this time believed in this term for multiple gods
What is Polytheistic
400
a slogan of the American colonials against their British rulers (main complaint of British tyranny).
What is No taxation without representation.
400
What was the first great split in the church called?
What is the Great Schism
400
Which famous Renaissance building might you find this painting in?
What is the Sistine Chapel
400
The hilltop of a city state
What is Acropolis
500
How do historians divide Egyptian history (hint; 3 parts)?
What are the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
500
A weapon of execution used in the French Revolution
What is the Guillotine
500
What are the holy scriptures of Islam called?
What is the Qur'an
500
What does the term "Renaissance" mean?
What is Rebirth
500
These people ran the family estates in Sparta
Who were women
600
The Egyptians depended on their river flooding every year for a plentiful harvest. What did they call this?
What is the Miracle of the Nile
600
In 1997, which movie was made about the Russian Revolution?
What is Anastasia
600
Which English monarch was forced to sign the Magna Carta?
Who is Prince John
600
Renaissance means "rebirth." What was being rebirthed during the Italian Renaissance?
What is the classical works of Greece and Rome
600
The wise and trusted leader of Athens that made reforms
Who is Solon
700
Which of the 7 Wonders of the ancient world might you find in Neo Babylonia?
What are the Hanging Gardens.
700
Which Queen supposedly said "let them eat cake?"
Who is Marie Antoinette
700
Which court did Joan of Arc have to answer to during the hundred years war?
What is the Inquisition
700
Which Renaissance belief stresses the potential value and goodness of human beings?
What is Humanism
700
This group of people were very well educated in Athens
Who are Boys
800
Name all seven rivers that major early civilizations settled beside in Eurasia.
What is the Tigris, Euphrates, Nile, Yellow, Yangtzi, Ganges, and Indus Rivers.
800
In 1798, which major invention was created by American Eli Whitney?
What is the Cotton Gin
800
Which group of Muslims took over Jerusalem in the 11th century?
What is the Seljuk Turks
800
This man, Niccolo Machiavelli, wrote a book that Hitler kept on his bedside. What was the book's title?
What is The Prince
800
The most powerful Olympian, has children Ares, Aphroditie and Athena
Who is Zeus
900
Name all five traits of a civilization.
Writing, Complex Institutions, Specialized Workers, Advanced Technology, Cities
900
What date was the Declaration of Independence signed?
What is July 4th, 1776.
900
Which three periods do historians divide the Middle Ages into?
Early Middle Ages
High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
900
Name this famous Renaissance building that revives the Roman architectural technique of the dome.
What is St. Peter's Basilica
900
War between Athens and other greeks who resented them. Athens gets defeated by Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War
1000
Name the two Egyptian monarchs who started a religious revolution.
Who are Akenhaten (Amenhotep) and Nefertiti.
1000
Name the full name of the radical Jacobin leader and principal figure of the French Revolution.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre
1000
Name the five pillars of Islam.
What are Prayer, Giving Alms, Profession of Faith, Fasting, and Pilgrimage.
1000
Which rich Italian banking family became patrons of the arts, sparking the Italian Renaissance?
What is the Medici Family
1000
Philip II son who wanted to conquer the Persian Empire
Alexander the Great