World Cultures

Random

100

What country is connected to the eastern border of Spain

Portugal

200

first to posit the heliocentric model (sun at the center) of the Solar System – did so in 1543’s On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.

Nicolaus Copernicus

300

What three countries make up the UK

Scotland, Great Britain, and Whales

400

event when William & Mary took power; Protestants overthrew James II; William and Mary signed English Bill of Rights, making England a limited constitutional monarchy.

Glorious Revolution

500

Order of English Monarchs:

Elizabeth I

James I

Charles I (beheaded 1649)

[Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector]

Charles II (dissolved Parliament in 1681)

James II

William III & Mary II

Kings

100

 The Sun King

• Built lavish palace at Versailles
• Edict of Fontainebleau – Protestants need to convert to Catholicism
• Fought a lot of wars

Louis XIV

200

Who was the self proclaimed czar of Russia, which means Caesar

Peter the great

300

• Greatly influenced by the Enlightenment
• Attacked the Austrians at Hohenfriedberg (1745)

Frederick the Great – Prussia

400

When was charles the 1st beheaded

1649

500

James the first 

The first stuart king of England

Queens

100

How Queen Elizabeth the 1st died

She was beheaded

200

fleet sent by King of Spain Philip II (Catholic) to attack England (Protestant). Philip had previously been married to English Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”). Fleet fails due to weather and geography

Spanish Armada

300

• Poisoned her husband, Peter III to take power
• Expanded her territory - partitioned Poland and colonized Alaska

Catherine the Great – Russia

400

She ruled from 1762-1796

Catherine the Great

500

What Queen executed the Christians

Bloody Mary

Scientists

100

He made the laws of planetary motion

Johannes Kepler

200

Copernicus -> Brahe -> Kepler -> Galileo

History of Astronomy:

300

observed the planets and stars over decades, wrote down detailed notes

Tycho Brahe

400

basic ideas of modern physics and math; invented calculus; three laws of motion

Sir Isaac Newton

500

first to posit the heliocentric model (sun at the center) of the Solar System – did so in 1543’s On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Dates

100

Magna Carta YEAR?

1215

200

 1689

English Bill of Rights

300

dissolved Parliament in 1681

Charles II

400

1586 plot to assassinate Elizabeth I (Protestant) and replace her with her Catholic cousin Mary, Queen of Scots (failed)

Babington Plot

500

1605 plot to blow up Parliament, kill James I, and install a Catholic monarch

Gunpowder Plot