Exploration
What year did Christopher Columbus sail to the Americas?
1492
Between 1000 and 1300 CE, the population of Europe did what? (Multiplied by what?)
Doubled
Who won the Trojan War?
The Greeks/Micineans
What were the "untouchables" in Ancient India?
The lowest class of society
Which ninja turtle is red and wields the twin sai?
Raphael
How much profit (in percentage) did Portuguese sailor Vasco Da Gama make from his voyage?
3000%
At what age would children start to train for a particular guild?
When is the Ides of March?
March 15
Who first united the Indian subcontinent?
Chandragupta
Spell Mrs. Defillipis
Defilippis
What country did Europeans buy silk from?
China
Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Dante Alighieri
What are patricians?
Landholding elite
What were the two capitals of the Indus Valley civilization?
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
What is a nomad?
A person moving from place to place as a lifestyle.
Which two parties controlled the trade routes in Europe in the 1400s
Italians and Muslims
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
Geoffery Chaucer
What was the role of women in Sparta
To produce healthy children
The Indus Valley Civilization began in what year?
Name two of the seven wonder of the ancient world.
Pyramid of Giza
Temple of Artemis
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Lighthouse at Alexandria
Colossus of Rhodes
What is the Colombian Exchange?
The trade of goods from the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
How long was the 100 years war?
116 years
Name all of the parts of the Spartan government.
Two Kings
Council of Elders
Assembly of Citizens
Who was the British archeologist who studied heavily on the Indus Valley?
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Who were the Central Powers?
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire