Starts with B
This art movement was the Catholic version of Dutch Golden Age art
What is Baroque?
England, under the rule of Oliver Cromwell, captured this Caribbean island from Spain in 1655
Where is Jamaica?
Who was Louis XIV?
Sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Louis XIV came from this French line of kings
Who are the Bourbons?
Carlos II
Where is Spain?
On the seas, the 100 years between 1650 and 1750 is known as this period
What is the 'Golden Age of Piracy'?
She was married to John Rackham aka Calico Jack
Who was Anne Bonny?
This trade system between West Africa, the Americas and Europe developed to exploit slaves from Africa and natural resources in the Americas
What is the Triangular Trade System?
She became the Queen of England after the death of her brother-in-law
Who was Queen Anne?
This is the term for Spanish explorers in Central and South America that became infamous for their brutality when conquering the indigenous populations
What is Conquistadors?
Led the destruction of Montezuma II and his Aztec Empire
Who was Hernán Cortés?
The Sun King's cute little turds
What are Louis' Poohies?
'Black' pirate's flatulence
What are Bart's farts?
Female shouts from Louis XIV's grand palace
What are Her Cries from Versailles?
These were pirates given the specific task of taking on Spanish ships
Who were Buccaneers?
This tax on non-Muslims was reimposed by Aurangzeb after his Great-Grandfather Akbar had repealed it
What is the Jizya tax?
Painted 'The Girl with the Pearl Earring'
Who was Jan Vermeer?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
Louis XIV's 1st wife was from this country
Where is Spain?
Leopold I
Where is the Holy Roman Empire?
Otherwise known as 'sumptuous still lives'
What are Pronkstilleven?
Who was Captain Kidd?
These were the two patriarchs from the two competing claims during the Question of Spanish Succession
Who were Louis XIV (France) and Leopold I (Austria)?
He ended up on the Spanish throne at the end of the War of Spanish Succession
Who was Filipe V?
Despite his unfortunate face, Carlos II was married this many times
What is 2?
Led the expeditions that led to the conquest of the Incan Empire in Peru
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The English Queen recognized at the end of the War of Spanish Succession's summer glow
What is Anne's tan?
An Iberian country's stuggles
What are Spain's pains?
Turkey sauce from Peter the Great's greatest military focus
What is Navy Gravy?
This pirate's ship was always named 'The Royal Fortune'
Who was Bartholomew 'Black Bart' Roberts?
This is the line of English monarchs in opposition to the Sophia line of succession
What is the Jacobean line?
Designed the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles
Who was Jules Hardouin-Mansart?
Is credited with leading the first circumnavigation of the globe, but was actually killed en route in the Philippines
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
Louis XIV's court at Versailles was filled with nobles that took on these roles which had jobs like 'master of the royal toilet'
Who were courtiers?
Jan Sobieski III
Where is Poland?
This is the term used for Dutch paintings of common, everyday life scenes
What is 'Genre Painting'?
He ravaged Panama and then most likely drank himself to death in Jamaica
Who was Captain Morgan?
Peter the Great travelled Europe to learn how to modernize his country with this large group of Russians
Who were the Grand Embassy?
He effectively ended the Golden Age of piracy by offering a pardon to all pirates in 1717
Who was King George I?
This was the name Henry Every's flagship
What is the Fancy?
Led a failed excursion to El Dorado and later declared war on Philip II and Spain
Who was Lope de Aguirre?
A very tall Romanov Czar's units of measurement
What are Peter's Meters?
The Night Watch painter's high schoolers
Who are van Rijn's teens?
Dutch Golden Age painter of energetic portraits' shopping centres
What are Hals' Malls?
These people were murdered in a genocide by the Dutch conquerer Jan Coen
Who were the Banda?
This landholding class of Prussians consolidated their power over the serfs in the years following the 30 Years War
Who were the Junkers?
Was the father of Carlos II
Who was Philip IV?
Was the first person to sail around Africa
Who was Vasco de Gama?
Louis XIV's gardens at Versailles were designed by this landscape architect
Who was Andre Le Notre?
Imre Thökölythe
Where is Hungary?
This is the term for still-life artworks that contain a skull to remind the viewer of the ever-present shadow of mortality
What is 'Memento Mori'?
He once stole a Mughal Empire treasure fleet worth the equivalent of 96 million dollars today
Who was Henry Every?
Many members of the Spanish royal family did this superstitious practice to try and help their health
What is sharing their beds with corpses?
Louis XIV benefited from this role created by Cardinal Richelieu that took away power from the provincial nobles
What were Intendants?
Led the Spanish conquest of Guatamala
Who was Pedro de Alvarado?
A little body of water from a period of French rebellion during Louis XIV's childhood
What is a Fronde Pond?
A female pirate's necklace components
What are Read's beads?
Blackbeard's old timey pants
What are Teach's Breaches?
This major battle in the War of Spanish Succession was a rout of the French by a combined Austrian and English force in Germany
What is the Battle of Blenheim?
This Catholic sect that believed in predestination was repressed by Louis XIV
Who were the Jansenists?
The Grand Vizier behind the failed 1683 Ottoman Siege of Vienna
Who was Kara Mustafa?
Is credited with the founding of the Dutch trading hub at Batavia in Indonesia
Who was Jan Pietersz Coen?
Who was Athenais de Montespan?
Frederick William Hohenzollern
Where is Brandenburg-Prussia?
The group of countries opposed to France in the War of Spanish Succession
What is the Grand Alliance?
He sieged Charleston, South Carolina and demanded medicine to treat the STDs that were ravaging his crew.
Who was Blackbeard (Edward Teach)?
The Pope divided the world outside of Europe between Spain and Portugal with these two treaties
What are the Treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza?
He was the father of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb that built the Taj Majal
Who was Shah Jahan?
She was the 2nd wife of Carlos II that was chosen for her family's famous fertility (her mother had 23 pregnancies)
Who was Maria Anna Neuberg?
Installed the encomienda system of forced labour during his governorship of the West Indies
Who was Nicolás de Ovando?
A Jedi Knight with Aurangzeb's matrilineal religious affiliation
Who is Mace Windu the Hindu?
Muslim pirate's paintbrush bristle materials
What is corsair horse hair?
The prince of Savoy's Levis
What are Eugene's Blue Jeans?