Social Studies Jeopardy

Miscellaneous

100

A document or artifact created by an eyewitness during a historical period is known as a(n)

primary source

200

This European traveler spent much time in Asia learning about the culture and beliefs of Mongolians. 

Marco Polo

300

This Greek city-state was known for being an oligarchy and having a huge, well-trained land army.

Sparta

400

A Japanese lord who was given control over large areas of land, but still had to report to the Shogun.

Daimyo

500

One of the Five Pillars of Islamic belief that states any Muslim who is physically and financially able to should make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once.

Hajj

Classical Greece

100

The Greeks were among the first people on Earth to use what system of government?

Democracy

200

Greece is a W.I.M.P. What does that mean?

Water

Islands

Mountains

Peninsula

300

Alexander the Great was born in what country?

Macedonia

400

Socrates was found guilty of what crime?

Corrupting the youth of Athens.

500

Socrates' most famous student Plato wrote a very influential book about government. What was the name of this book?

The Republic

Classical Rome

100

A system of laws in the early Roman Republic that specified various crimes and their punishment.

The 12 tables.

200

This Emperor adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Constantine

300

A poor person in the Roman Empire was known as a

plebiean

400

What were soldiers in the Roman army called?

Legionaries 

500

This Roman senator was responsible for Rome's transition from a democracy to an Empire.

Julius Caesar

Medieval

100

A person who spent his or her day farming with very few rights.

peasant / serf

200

A series of wars fought between Christians and Muslims for the holy city of Jerusalem.

The Crusades

300

The political and economic system of the Middle Ages which provided order to society.

feudalism

400

One of the first Emperors to unite many medieval kingdoms after the fall of the Roman Empire

Charlemagne (Charles the Great)

500

What written and spoken language was commonly used throughout Europe in the Middle Ages?

Latin

Renaissance

100

The idea that human life should be valued because humans are able to use logic and reason to understand the natural world.

Humanism

200

One of the most famous Renaissance artists, he painted the Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

300

What does the word "Renaissance" mean?

rebirth

400

This subject was a common theme in many famous pieces of Renaissance art.

Christianity

500

This location was the birthplace of the European Renaissance (city OR country)

Florence, Italy