This was the governing body that consisted of older, well-off men.
What was the senate?
100
This city in Britain was first founded by the Romans.
What was London (Londinium)?
100
Devout Muslims must always pray in the direction of this city.
What is Mecca?
100
This was the optical illusion that gave a sense of depth to paintings by identifying a horizon and vanishing point.
What was linear perspective?
200
This was the class of well-off Romans who held most of the power in Ancient Rome.
Who were the patricians?
200
These are the three principal, original countries that made up Scandinavia.
What were Denmark, Norway and Sweden?
200
The religion of Islam began in this geographic area (not city).
What was the Arabian Peninsula?
200
This was a first year monk.
What was a novice?
200
She was the British queen who rebuffed the Spanish Armada and saved her country.
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
300
These were the lower-class or working class Romans.
Who were the plebeians?
300
German tribes brought over this language to the British Isles in the early Middle Ages.
What was Anglo Saxon or Old English?
300
This was the name of Muhammad's first wife.
Who was Hadija?
300
This important event occurred in 1066.
What was the Norman Conquest?
300
This was the belief that the "proper study of man is man."
What was humanism?
400
He was the first Roman emperor who created the Pax Romana - or Roman peace.
Who was Augustus Caesar?
400
This was the man who later became a saint who brought Christianity to Ireland.
Who was St. Patrick?
400
This group of Northern Africans brought Islam to the Iberian Peninsula where it remained for centuries.
Who were the Moors?
400
While the Black Plague was blamed on rats, it really spread because of this animal.
What was the flea?
400
He was the severe religious reformer who brought down Florence's artistic freedoms during the Renaissance.
Who was Savonarola?
500
This was the country in North Africa, originally founded by Phoenicians, who were the Romans' greatest rivals. One senator kept insisting, "BLANK must be destroyed." Eventually it was.
What was Carthage?
500
This was the Viking chief who was the first European to settle in America, then known as Vinland.
Who was Erik the Red?
500
This is the tall, narrow tower built near a mosque, used by a muezzin during the call to prayers.
What was a minaret?
500
Scribes preserved the works of the ancients by copying them into this kind of book.
What were illuminated manuscripts?
500
He was the greatest patron of them all, known as Il Magnifico.