Geography
The four major directions on a compass rose.
What are north, south, east and west?
These seafaring Norse people from southern Scandinavia pirated, raided and traded
Who are the vikings?
The combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, especially courage, honor, courtesy, justice, and a readiness to help the weak.
What is chivalry?
The most recognizable painting in the world.
What is The Mona Lisa?
A Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
Who is Marco Polo?
The distance on a map in comparison to the distance in real life.
What is scale?
This group of people controlled most of Europe after the fall of Rome.
Who are the Germanic Tribes/The Barbarians?
A symbol that represents a specific family or person. Originally appearing on shields or flags, and were once used as a way of distinguishing one knight from another on a battlefield.
What is a Coat of Arms?
The original Renaissance man. He was a painter, an engineer, an artist, an inventor and so on.
Who is Leonardo da Vincci?
He was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
a measurement on a map running north or south of the Equator.
What is latitude?
King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at this famous battle in 1066.
What is The Battle of Hastings?
A devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.
What is The Black Death?
A philosophical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively.
What is humanism?
The explorer Christopher Columbus was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the
What is The Americas?
The highest point on a map.
What is spot height?
This Holy Roman Emperor encouraged education and Christianity.
Who is Charlemagne?
Considered a heroine of France for her role during the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Catholic saint.
Who is Joan of Arc?
This family ruled the city of Florence throughout the Renaissance. They had a major influence on the growth of the Italian Renaissance through their patronage of the arts and humanism.
Who is The Medicci family?
What are Quebec City and Montreal?
A rotation half way around a circle is this bearring.
What is 180 degrees?
The three F's of feudalism.
What are fief (land), fealty (loyalty) and
faith (religion)?
The long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms of France and England against each other from 1337 to 1453.
What is The Hundred Years War?
He famously said of leadership that "it is better to be feared than loved."
Who is Machiavelli?
The negative effects of Spanish contact with the people of North and South America.