Medieval Europe and China
This was invented in China during the 9th century. It was used to make explosions in weapons like guns and cannons.
What is gunpowder?
This was the name given to Genghis Khan when he was born.
What is Temujin?
This country was the first to send an explorer across the Atlantic Ocean. The explorer they sent was Christopher Columbus.
What is Spain?
This is the source of power used by early factories.
What is a river/waterwheel?
The King who was important in keeping Thailand (Siam) independent from foreign rule in the 19th century.
Who is Rama V/Chulalongkorn?
This is the name given to the period of time from the fall of the Roman Empire around 450CE to the beginning of the Middle Ages around 1000CE.
What is the Dark Ages?
This was the weapon that gave the Mongols an advantage over their enemies.
What is a composite bow?
This phrase is the name given to the transport and trade of animals, plants, raw materials, diseases and people between the Americas and the rest of the world that began in the late 15th century.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This is the name of the businessman who built the first ever factory in Cromford, Derbyshire in 1771.
Who is Richard Arkwright?
33% of this continent was ruled by the British Empire by the beginning of the First World War.
What is Africa?
This was the social system used in Medieval Europe. The king was at the top and the peasants were at the bottom.
What is the feudal system?
This was the system Genghis Khan used in his army. It was based on the number 10.
What is the decimal system?
This is the name of the explorer whose ship was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
This was the city where the average life expectancy for men during the early 19th century was just 17.
What is Manchester?
This is the name given to the journey taken by the slave ships from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Tang shipwreck was found off the coast of this country.
What is Indonesia?
This word describes the landscape that Genghis Khan grew up in. It is an area of grassland with rolling hills and no forests that is suitable for grazing animals.
What is the steppe?
These are the imaginary lines that go around the world from north to south.
What is longitude?
This is the metal that was used for the cylinder in James Watt's steam engine.
What is iron?
This modern-day country was part of the British Empire for nearly 200 years. Historians say that during that time its share of world GDP reduced by around 20%.
What is India?
This was the medieval name of modern-day Beijing.
What is Khanbaliq?
This was the passport issued to merchants in the Mongol Empire so they could travel more easily along the Silk Road.
What is paiza?
This was an indigenous people living in the area of modern-day Mexico who were conquered by the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes.
Who are the Aztecs?
This was the name given to the system that existed before the Industrial Revolution when people made things by hand in their homes.
What is the domestic system?
This type of disaster, caused by a lack of food leading to widespread starvation, happened in India on several occasions while it was part of the British Empire.
What is a famine?