Colonization
Cortes laid siege to this city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This vegetable from the Andes grows in poor soil and allowed the Irish population to double.
What is the potato?
This English scientist discovered the color spectrum, invented calculus and the theory of gravity.
Who was Isaac Newton?
This English political thinker wrote that people were wicked and the only good form of government was a monarchy.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
This king of the Franks was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 AD.
Who was Charlemagne?
The arch enemies of the Aztecs who helped Cortes defeat them.
Who were the Tlaxcalans?
This trade route brought African slaves to the New World.
What was the Middle Passage?
This English scientist devised the scientific method.
Who was Francis Bacon?
This English writer believed that people were born with three natural rights- life, liberty and property.
Who was John Locke?
This general was son of a Turkish princess. He started a devastating civil war which ended the Tang Dynasty in China.
Who was An Lushan?
This Spaniard conquered the Inca Empire.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The Old World disease which killed off the most Native Americans.
What is smallpox?
This Italian astronomer invented the telescope and discovered the moons of Jupiter.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed this to be the best form of government.
What is democracy?
This French priest was beaten up by Turks in the Holy Land and returned to Europe to preach the Crusades.
Who was Peter the Hermit?
This massacre by the Spanish conquistadors caused the Aztec to rise up and attack.
What was La Noche Triste?
The disease which spread from the Americas to the Old World by sailors. Henry VIII suffered from this disease.
What is syphilis?
This model of the universe, thought of by Copernicus, places the sun in the center.
What is the heliocentric model?
This English philosopher believed that people set up governments to protect their property.
Who was John Locke?
This pope told his missionaries in England not to destroy these but to convert them into churches.
Who was Pope Gregory the Great?
The percentage of natives in the Americas who died from Old World diseases.
What is 75%?
These beans were cultivated by Mesoamericans and made into a drink. Europeans added sugar to it.
What are cacao beans?
He said: "I think, therefore I am."
Who was Rene Descartes?
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that without a government, life would be this.
What is constant war?
These people controlled trade on the Silk Road
Who are the Sogdians?