People
This adventurer's books told European Medievals what the rest of the world was like.
Who is Marco Polo?
The defeat of the Spanish Armada took place here.
What is the English Channel?
This invention has done the most to change the world.
What is the printing press?
You wouldn't want to be this person in the chain of feudal command.
What is a peasant or a serf?
This dynasty was ruled by a Turk was called Tiger by his enemies.
What is the Moghul dynasty?
This prophet's revelations revolved into an empire.
Who was Muhammad?
This kingdom flourished due to a salty tax.
What is Ghana?
Alchemists accidentally discovered this.
What is gunpowder?
You wouldn't want to be this person, who had some pretty terrible marriages arranged for them.
Who is Isabella of Castile?
A samurai may express himself in this way.
What is writing a haiku?
The Catholic Church banned his book due to his heliocentrism.
Who is Gallieo or Copernicus
This capital city was built on a lake.
What is Tenochtitlan?
What was ultimately used to find Richard the Lionheart?
What is a song?
You wouldn't want to be this person-- Charles VII waited 15 years after their death before he asked the church to pardon them.
Who is Joan of Arc?
The Jews living outside Israel are called this.
What is the diaspora?
This mad descendant of Rurik ended his own dynasty, accidentally.
Who was Ivan the Terrible?
The church door of this town was the site of a major protest.
What was Wittenberg, Germany?
The Forbidden City of the Mings was made of these things (name 2).
Stone, rice, lime, egg whites.
You wouldn't want to invite this man to settle your arguments over who should be king next.
Who is Tariq Bin Ziyad?
You likely do this better than Charlemagne did.
What is write?
This former clown became the co-ruler of the largest empire of the day.
Who was Empress Theodora?
These carved and frescoe'd caves were sites of medieval worship.
What were the Ajanta Caves?
Justinian needed this to govern the largest Byzantine Empire yet.
What is the Code of Justinian (laws)?
You wouldn't want to the last ruler in this dynasty, which united north and south China by forcing 8 million of its subjects to work for them.
What is the Sui dynasty?
The Vikings added these words to our English language (name 2).
Egg, hungry, weak, egg, steak, leg, skin, skull, angry, cut, crawl, die.