Explorers
Portuguese navigator who began the first successful expedition to circumnavigate the earth
Ferdinand Magellan
The ruler whose time on the throne in England was called "The Golden Age"
Elizabeth I
The printer who invented the movable-type printing press in Europe
Johann Gutenberg
Joseph Stalin was responsible for the Great Famine in what country?
The large sea on the eastern side of the Balkan Peninsula is the what?
Black Sea
Italian navigator who claimed land in North America for England
John Cabot
In the UK, the slave trade was ended largely through the efforts of whom?
William Wilberforce
The man who designed advanced machines and made accurate, scientific drawings of the human body
Leonardo da Vinci
The Anglo-Irish Treaty declared that Ireland was politically separate from what?
United Kingdom
The largest mountain system in Europe is the what?
Alps
Explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
The document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the monarch
Magna Carta
Military hero during the French Revolution who crowned himself emperor of Franch
Napoleon Bonaparte
Switzerland's largest city is what?
Zurich
After Russia, the largest country in Europe is what?
Ukraine
Explorer who conquered the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spanish rule
Hernando Cortes
The leader of the Protestant Reformation in France
John Calvin
Queen Margarethe II was the longest-ruling monarch of what country?
Denmark
Lithuania
The mountainous area in Germany that has inspired fairy tales and folk stories is the what?
Black Forest
Ruler who defeated the Moors in Spain and paid for Christopher Columbus's voyage
King Ferdinand
The man who started the International Red Cross was whom?
Jean Henri Dunant
The French leader who set up a democratic government called the Fifth Republic
Charles de Gaulle
The Falklands War began when what country invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands?
Argentina
Another name for the Enlightenment was the Age of what?
Reason