The navies of ancient Greece and Rome sailed this central sea, and Malta lies in the middle of it.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
This major religion is rooted in the holy book called the Qu'ran.
What is Islam?
100
This term is used to describe societies or institutions which are focused on the worldly rather than the spiritual.
What is secular?
100
The technological advances in this field enabled Europeans to explore the world farther than ever before.
What is sailing?
100
This country singer is Miley Cyrus' dad.
Who is Billy Ray Cyrus?
200
This country is composed on four "home" nations: Scotland, England, Wales, and one small part of Ireland.
What is the United Kingdom?
200
This document, reluctantly agreed to by the English King John, translates from the Latin for "Great Charter."
What is Magna Carta?
200
This word describes a place inhabited by a people who retain strong ties with another "parent" country.
What is colony?
200
What two civilizations controlled trade between the East and West before the 15th century?
What is Italy and the Muslim world?
200
Although savaged by historians, one author wrote a bestselling account of this Muslim Chinese admiral claiming he must have "discovered" America before the Europeans.
Who was Zheng He?
300
Name two nations that border France.
What is Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, Spain, Andorra, and Swtizerland.
300
This Franco-Swiss author of The Social Contract established key principles which would inspire the American Revolutionary generation.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
300
This word describes a process whereby money or other support is provided to an artist or an organization typically hard up for money.
What is patronage?
300
This Portuguese crown prince pushed government support for exploration, especially in Africa.
Who was Prince Henry?
300
This is the title of Miley Cyrus' controversial new video, sure to be a high watermark of Western culture.
What is Wrecking Ball?
400
An oil-rich region in the North Atlantic Ocean, this body of water separates Scotland from Norway, and England from Germany.
What is the North Sea?
400
A Dutch prince and his English princess wife, William and Mary, were invited in 1689 to share the crown of England jointly in an event known in history as this.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
This word describes the beliefs and customs of a particular society or time.
What is culture?
400
These two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the world and ushered in some framework for European growth.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
400
China long referred to itself as Zhongguo, which in the West is translated as this.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
500
This is the smallest sovereign state in Europe in the world.
What is Vatican City?
500
His reforms in 594 BCE outlawed slavery based on debt and canceled farmers' debts saving Athens from civil war.
Who is Solon?
500
This word is a fancy term for everyday speech.
What is vernacular?
500
This massive corporation, based in the Netherlands, was an independent body that raised its own army and fleet and created a future model for imperialism.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
500
The Qing Dynasty was a period ushered in through the conquest of China by this nation.