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100
This man is best known for "discovering" America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
A teacher of Christianity
What is a missionary?
100
The first democratic constitution was written here.
What is Greece?
100
The feudal estate and basic economic unit, usually a house or a castle.
What are manors?
100
An absolute ruler of a country.
What is an emperor?
200
He is the inventor of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
200
This faith merged out of protest to the Catholic Church.
What is the Protestant Church?
200
The political and social system in medieval Europe.
What is feudalism?
200
Knights and nobles who received land and swore loyalty to a lord.
What are vassals?
200
Young worker learning a trade.
What is an apprentice?
300
This father/son team conquered all of Greece.
Who are Alexander the Great and Phillip II?
300
The group became the primary political power in western Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
300
Unwritten set of laws based on local customs.
What is common law?
300
The medieval workers' organization.
What is a guild?
300
Another word for "city-state"
What is a polis?
400
The first Protestant leader to challenge the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
This religion spread all over the Roman world.
What is Christianity?
400
The foundations of Roman Law.
What are the Twelve Tables?
400
These people paid the rent for their land and then worked the land as freely as they pleased.
What are tenants?
400
Derived from the Greek language, this word means "love of wisdom."
What is philosophy?
500
Groups of people from this country invaded the Roman Empire.
What is Germany?
500
Pardons for sins, given or sold, by the Catholic Church.
What are indulgences?
500
Where revolutions were taking place.
Where is the Americas and Europe?
500
Poor farmers who had to work as ordered by the lords of the manor in exchange for land, seeds, tools and protection.
What are serfs?
500
Individuals selected by the kingdom of Rome to represent them.
What are consuls?