Primary Sources!
This chronicler’s quote calling “both knights and footmen” to expel the Seljuk Turks refers to this major medieval event.
The First Crusade
Romulus and Remus were said to be sons of a Latin woman and this god of war.
Mars
The Greeks’ fierce infantry formation was called this.
Phalanx
A medieval style featuring pointed arches and soaring height, often supported by flying buttresses.
Gothic Architecture
This artist designed St. Peter's Basilica
Michaelangelo
What tropical fruit was so rare and expensive that in the 18th century you could rent one just to display in your home.
Pineapples
In the Fulcher of Chartres quote, this medieval practice shows the promise of spiritual reward for those who "go tither."
Indulgences
This Carthaginian general threatened Rome in the Second Punic War after crossing the Alps.
Hannibal
This term for a city-state government structure literally means “two-levels."
Polis
This invention made medieval books visually striking with bright colors and ornate decoration.
Illumination
This Renaissance belief emphasized worldly subjects, individual potential, and classical Greek/Roman learning.
Humanism
The Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896) is the shortest war in history lasting how long?
45 mins
DOUBLE POINTS: This apostle wrote the New Testament passage that begins, “I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians…”
Paul
In Roman law and many modern systems, this principle says a defendant can not be treated as though they committed the crime.
Innocent until proven guilty
This epic is best known for retelling the Trojan War, including the story often linked to the Trojan Horse.
The Iliad
A Greek form of art using colored glass to form a mural.
Mosaic
This wealthy Florence banking family funded (patroned) many artists and could influence church politics.
Medici
The Moon Landing
This senator’s repeated statement, “Carthage must be destroyed,” helped push Rome into this war.
The third punic war
Unique style of capital punishment used in the Roman world.
Crucifixion
During the Peloponnesian War, this city-state was allied with Persia.
Sparta
This church-architecture feature helped cathedrals build taller by supporting outer walls.
Flying Buttress
DOUBLE POINTS: England split from the Church’s authority under this king after he was denied a divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
Henry VIII
What human waste did the Romans use as detergent? It was so valuable that Emperor Vespasian taxed it!
Urine
Written in 325 AD, this creed was produced at this council to defend the belief that Christ is fully divine.
The Nicene Creed
The Romans were fierce warriors but they were also trained in ___.
Education/Philosophy/etc.
This Athenian leader’s devotion to democracy is connected to events leading into the Peloponnesian War.
Pericles
A Renaissance technique named in your material that made art look more realistic by showing depth and space.
Perspective
This English queen was nicknamed “Bloody Mary” for executing Protestants as heretics and traitors.
Mary Tudor
DOUBLE POINTS: What rodent randomly attacked Napoleon in 1807.
Rabbits
The Greek term for "being of one substance with the Father."
Homoousious
Dictator of the Roman Empire who escalated the persecution of the Christians and split his empire into three components.
Diocletian
The Greeks were known for this mysterious substance that would ignite even fire.
Greek Fire
Famous medieval artist known for his prints of theological scenes.
Albrecht Durer
The pope of the Reformation.
Pope Leo X
Aztec
He once said "I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold"
Hernan Cortes
A group of 5,000 men charging into warfare together.
Legion
DOUBLE POINTS: Under Constantine, this Greek style of architecture was reimplemented. It was first implemented under Alexander the Great to unite the Greek Empire.
Hellenistic Style
This large church was built by Justinian, but today is a mosque after the Ottoman Empires invasion.
Hagia Sophia
Invented the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
During the middle ages, what was not something included on a person's clock?
Minute Hand
What document uses this phrase? "... Why does not the pope... build this one basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than the money of believers..."
The 95 Theses
These two betrayed Caesar and led the way to his assassination
Brutus and Cassius
She was a Greek and a Pharaoh
Cleopatra
Rounded tops in this architecture are known to be.
Romanesque
DOUBLE POINTS: This invention led to the spreading of ideas quickly throughout Europe.
Printing Press
This practice, called anthropodermic bibliopegy, was rare but real. It was most often done in the 17th–19th centuries using the skin of executed criminals or unclaimed bodies, for what purpose?
Binding books
Who wrote the following:
- Julius Caesar
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- Timon of Athens
- Cleopatra
- Richard III
Shakespeare
A feature of Roman society that helped bring water in and out of the city. Some, are still used today!
Acqueducts
Philip II
An artists signature on a cathedral and way to keep water away from the structure.
Gargoyles
Author of "The Prince"
Machiavelli
During World War II, Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal. She extinguished an incendiary bomb by peeing on it! What type of animal was she? Double points if you get it EXACTLY RIGHT.
Great Dane/Dog
“The foot of an Egyptian woman may travel where it pleases her and no one may deny her.”
Ramses II
The group of people forced of the Italian Peninsula (besides the Greeks) that led to the rise of Rome.
Etruscans
Constantine's Greek heritage pushed him to move the Roman capital to...
Byzantium/Constantinople
Author of Cantebury Tales
Geoffery Chaucer
She was a patron of Shakespeare.
Elizabeth I
Wealthy Romans were able to put what into their floors?
Heat