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Found frozen in the Alps in 1991.
Who is the Oetzi, the Iceman?
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A plant that was used to make paper in Ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
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A series of eight separate military campaigns waged against Muslim countries between the years of 1095 and 1214.
What is the Crusades?
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The king of the gods. Rules the thunder, rain, and lightning, among other things.
Who is Zeus?
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A fatal disease caused by bacteria that live in rodents that spread over much of Europe in the Middle Ages.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
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Polytheism or Polytheists
What is people who worship more than one god?
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A ruling family in Ancient China.
What is a dynasty?
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This type of writing was invented in Sumer around 3500 B.C.
What is cuneiform writing?
200
God of the seas and brother of Zeus. He lives at the bottom of the ocean and rules the waves.
Who is Poseidon?
200
Ancient Greek city-state which focused on its military.
What is Sparta?
300
Founder of Christianity in Ancient Rome
Who is Jesus?
300
A hired soldier.
What is a mercenary?
300
This was used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The ancient Greek gods were believed to all live on this location.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Structure built in Ancient China to stop other people from invading the area.
What is the Great Wall?
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young Egyptian pharaoh who died at the age of 18 around 1334 B.C.
Who is Tutankhamen?
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Generally a prisoner or slave who served as a professional fighter in Ancient Rome.
What is a gladiator?
400
This incredible birth changed world history.
What is the birth of Jesus?
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Performed twelve (12) labors.
Who is Heracles?
400
A man who lived in a monastery and studied and prayed during the Middle Ages.
What is a monk?
500
Started the Reformation in the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
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To sail around the world.
What is to circumnavigate?
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The split of the Roman Catholic Christian Church.
What is the Reformation?
500
Daughter of Demeter who spends six months out of the year with Hades, the god of the underworld.
Who is Persephone (Kore)?
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Refers to a rebirth in European history from about the 1300s to the 1600s, came directly after the Middle Ages.
What is the Renaissance?