Renaissance
Wars of the Roses
Royalty
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Vocabulary
100

This city is traditionally said to be the birthplace of the Renaissance.

What is Florence?

100

This was the final Norman king in England.

Who was Stephen of Blois?

100
This was the name of Henry VIII's first wife.

Who was Catherine of Aragon?

100

This is the type of plant that Geoffrey of Anjou wore in his hat.

What is yellow broom blossom?

100

This is a form of government with elected representatives, often with a chosen single head of state.

What is parliament?

200

This country is the first place that the Renaissance appears.

What is Italy?

200

This is the nickname for Geoffrey of Anjou.

What is Plantagenest?

200

This was the queen or king after Henry VIII died.

Who was his son, Edward VI?

200

This was the nickname of Venice.

What is "The Jewel of the Adriatic Sea"?
200

This Russian word means "Fortress".

What is kremlin?

300

This is the city that had a lot of Greek scholars leaving, after the Ottoman Empire defeated the Byzantines.

What is Constantinople?

300

This is the year that the Wars of the Roses began.

What is 1455?

300

This was the title that Ivan III was said to use first.

What is "Ruler of All Russia"?

300

This is the result of glazing earthenware.

What is making the objects waterproof?

300

This was a cadet branch of the Plantagenets that descended from Edmund of Langley.

What is York?

400

These are the years that the Northern Renaissance lasted.

1430 - 1580

400

This is the first battle of the Wars of the Roses.

What is St Albans?

400

This is Richard Neville's nickname.

What is the Kingmaker?

400

This was the first book printed in English.

What is The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye?

400

This was a social structure where land was exchanged for loyalty.

What is feudalism?

500

This was the first item printed on the moveable type printing press.

What is the Bible?

500
This is the date that Henry VII was crowned king of England, after he defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

What is October 30, 1485?

500

This is the French county where the House of Plantagenet first began.

What is Anjou?

500

These are the two main items that Ming artisans used to create porcelain.

What are petuntse and kaolin?

500

This is a legal restriction that limits the inheritance of property and titles to only a specific line of heirs. 

What is an entail?