The Moghul Emperors of India
Battle, Fire and Plague in England
Battle, Fire and Plague in England
The name of the dynasty, descended from the Mongols which ruled India was called this.
What is the Moghul dynasty? (the Indo-Persian form of the word "Mongol")
Louis the XIV was this old when he became the king of France.
As Massachusetts colony grew larger, it spread into the lands of this Native American tribe.
What is the Wampanoag tribe?
The Ottoman Turks followed this religion.
What is Islam?
Chi'en-lung did this with books that made unflattering remarks about the Manchu.
What is "had them destroyed"?
The beautiful mausoleum that Shah Jahan built is called this.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This man was the king of the Wampanoag tribe
Who is Metacom?
The Turkish soldiers tried to get past Vienna's wall by doing this.
What is digging a tunnel?
Two of the four categories of the most important books gathered by Chi'en-lung in China were these.
What were History, Literature, Philosophy and Classics?
This disease began to spread through London four years after Charles II's triumphant return.
What is the plague, also called the Black Death?
The enormous palace that Louis ordered to be built was called this.
Newton named the force that pulled the apple to the ground this.
What is gravity?
A baker heard digging and warned the soldiers in Vienna that the Turkish soldiers were digging. In honor of this the Viennese bakers invented this bread.
What are croissants or rolls shaped like the crescent emblem on the Turkish flag?
One of the challenges of the Chinese language was that it had over this many symbols for different sounds and letters.
What is over 40,000?
The people of London killed all dogs and cats thinking these animals were carrying the plague, but these were really to blame for carrying the plague.
What are the fleas who lived on the rats?
In the years after the Thirty Years' War, Germany was divided into this many states.
What is three hundred states?
Lord Townshend invented a way to increase crop production by doing this.
What is implementing a four year crop rotation where farmers first planted wheat, then turnips then barley or oats and finally clover.
When Peter the I of Russia was a young man, this person tried to take his country away from him.
Who is Sophia, his sister, who tried to take the throne for herself.
Two of the places in India where the English had trading posts were these.
What are Surat, Bombay and Bengal?
This is how the great fire in London got started.
What is a coal fell out of a bakers oven and started a fire in some brushwood?
The first "Reich" was actually this.
What is the first German kingdom?
Scientific farming produced a new kind of revolution called this.
What is agricultural revolution?
When Peter returned to Russia, he told his noblemen to do this to look more Western.
What is he told them to cut off their beards OR He told them to wear western clothing?
English Merchants banded together to form one big company called this.
What is the East India Company?