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100
This term refers to the middle ages, which encompasses roughly 500 AD to 1500 AD.
What is Medieval?
100
A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe
What is the Renaissance?
100
What is the Rosetta Stone?
100
This painter was an avid inventor and created the Mona Lisa.
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
100
This plague killed off as much as 50% of the European population, paving the way for the Renaissance to occur.
What is the Black Death?
200
This term refers to the continent in the Western Hemisphere that is closest to the North Pole.
What is North America?
200
This group were Major figures in Japan, who were a powerful warrior class.
Who were the Samurai?
200
What is a Longbow?
200
This woman dressed as a man to fight for the French Army in the 1400s.
Who was Joan of Arc?
200
Johannes Gutenberg of Germany created this device that could copy and print and print a page multiple times at once. Meaning that books no longer had to be copied by hand.
What is the Printing Press?
300
A large, hot desert in North Africa that covers about 3.5 million square miles
What is the Sahara?
300
This mathematical term for nothing, is credited with having been conceptualized in the House of Wisdom during the Islamic Golden Age.
What is zero?
300
This famous treat, created by the Mayans uses cacao beans.
What is Chocolate?
300
This european explorer, who traveled throughout Asia, shares his name with a popular children's pool game.
Who was Marco Polo?
300
These Holy Wars occured throughout the Middle Ages.
What were The Crusades?
400
This religion, from Medieval Japan, expresses a love and respect for nature.
What is Shintoism?
400
This organization of people in the same craft or trade came about in the medieval world.
What is a guild?
400
These objects were created in medieval China using paper and woodblock prints. We often use them today to play games like poker and Pokemon.
What are playing cards?
400
This Mongolian emperor created one of the largest empires the world has ever known.
Who was Genghis Khan?
400
This group led by Leif Eriksson sailed West towards North America and raised what is now the East Coast of Canada for 2 decades.
Who were the Vikings?
500
A great flowering of culture, based on classical Greek and Roman ideas and art, that began in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and spread throughout Europe
What is the Renaissance?
500
The Great Renaissance artists, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael, have had their names used in this children's animated show.
What is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
500
In this country's medieval era, an aristocratic woman might wear as many as 12 silk underrobes at one time.
What is Japan?
500
This King of the Mali Empire was known as the richest man in the world.
Who was Mansa Musa.
500
The signing of this document by the King of England, grants English citizens certain rights that cannot be taken away.
What is the Magna Carta?