Chinese emperors claimed that this mandate was given to them.
What is the Mandate of Heaven
100
The bubonic and pneumonic plague are better known by this dark description
What is the Black Death?
100
This device allowed sailors to calculate their latitude
What is the astrolabe?
100
This Laker has announced he will retire from the NBA after this season?
Who is Kobe Bryant?
100
A baby's toy named after its sound
What is a rattle?
200
He didn't think much of people and said that government needed to be monstrous! A Leviathan!
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
200
Approximately this percentage of Europeans died from disease between 1348 and 1351
What is 33-60%?
200
This Muslim nation grew very strong in the 15th century and blocked the land trade routes Western Europeans used to travel to Asia.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
200
She's the star of the Hunger Games.
Who is Jennifer Lawrence?
200
You may have lost this, but you can still win the war
What is a battle?
300
I work three days a week for my Lord and three days for myself. I'm not a slave exactly. Instead I am called this.
What is a serf?
300
Native Americans were susceptible to European diseases--especially this disease which sounds small but sure was deadly
What is small pox?
300
It was a bigger and faster ship and it aided exploration
What is a caravel?
300
This is the capital city of Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
300
Careful, it's glass. If you drop it it might do this
What is shatter?
400
He said the role of government is to promote the "common good"
who is Rousseau
400
Many African Americans did not survive the journey across the Middle Passage and succumbed to diseases primarily because of these conditions on board the ship.
What are non-hygenic and crowded....
400
These allowed sailors to sail even into the wind
What are lateen sails?
400
The droid who belonged to Luke Skywalker and also spoke in English.
What is C3P0?
400
"I'm telling Mom!" That's so like my sister. She's one of these people.
What is a tattle tale?
500
He believed that people had natural rights to life, liberty and property.
who is Locke?
500
This European minority group was falsely accused by some of causing the Black Death
What are the Jewish people
500
He was the first European to reach Asia by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama
500
He currently is the fastest sprinter in the world.
Who is Ussain Bolt?
500
There's a whole lot of cows and bulls over there. Maybe I should just call them by this plural and more inclusive term.