European Explorers
European Governments
Rome
The Dark Ages
European Changes
100

Why did Europeans have interest in Asia?

Silk and spices

100

Institution at the top of the Middle Age society.

What is the church?

100

Roman Politician that took Rome from a republic to an empire then was murdered by his fellow statesmen.

Who is Julius Caesar? 

100

What major event did the Dark Ages occur after?

What is the fall of the Roman Empire?

100

Period after the Dark Ages.

What is the Renaissance? 

200

What is a conquistador?

A Spanish explorer and conquerer

200

The dominant social structure in Medieval Europe where the King gives lands to the nobles in exchange for military service and the serfs work the land in exchange for protection.

What is feudalism? 

200

A 207 year period of good times, peace, and prosperity in Rome.

What is the Pax Romana? 

200

What was the Black Death?

What is an illness that killed millions of Europeans during the Dark Ages?

200

What was the Renaissance known for? 

A period of artistic, scientific, and cultural innovations.

300

What was a cause for European exploration?

Catholic Religious Zeal OR Mercantilism OR Ottoman Dominance of Trade Routes

300

The head of the Roman Catholic church.

Who is the Pope?

300

A Roman soldier turned leader who moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the East, effectively weakening the West.

Who is Constantine? 

300

The leader of the Holy Roman Empire who emphasized education and led the Franks. 

Who is Charlagmane the Great?

300

Theory that encouraged people to be curious and to question received wisdom. Hint - H _ma _ i_m

What is Humanism? 

400

Why was it difficult to trade through the Ottoman Empire?

Christians and Muslims were fighting, causing distrust

400

The order in which society operated during the Middle Ages.

What is Church, Nobility, Peasants? 

400

A 207 year period of good times, peace, and prosperity in Rome.

What is the Pax Romana?

400

Germanic tribe from modern-day Germany that led to the collapse of Western Rome.

Who were the Franks? 

400

Social movement in society directed away from otherworldliness to life on earth. Hint: Sec_ _ _ rism

What is secularism? 
500

The Ottomans were a strong trading empire through the mid-1600s because they

controlled access to the eastern Mediterranean Sea

500

The law that the Catholic Church set out which included topics like religious teachings accepted by the church, crimes, the role of the clergy, and marriage.

What is Canon Law? 

500

Disputes over the authority of the Western Pope’s ability to make rulings affecting the whole Church.

What is the Great Schism? 

500

What was happening to the Byzantine Empire during the Dark Ages? 

They were succeeding and prospering. 
500

Renaissance artists, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles named after them. 

Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo