This Italian city is where the Renaissance began.
What is Florence?
This city served as the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Constantinople?
This was the primary language of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Greek?
This man wrote The Illiad.
Who is Homer?
This is the person credited with being the first to sail around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This man drew the famous Vitruvian Man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This man was the founder of the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
These modern-day countries make up the land once known as the Babylonian Empire.
What are Iran and Iraq?
This Roman Emperor was famously known as "Little Boots".
This country was the first to allow women to vote.
What is New Zealand?
This man was the king of France during the French Revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI?
These were warriors in Japan.
Who are samurais?
These two rivers defined the Mesopotamian region.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
She is the Greek goddess of victory.
Who is Nike?
This series of wars saw European Christians invading the Middle East to take the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This island is where Napoleon was born.
What is Corsica?
The janissaries were elite infantry units of this empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
These two languages were featured on the Rosetta Stone.
What are Greek and Egyptian?
He wrote The Republic.
This leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
In 1594, William Shakespeare this London theater's company.
What is The Globe?
This person founded Sikhism.
Who is Guru Nanak?
The Aztec people sacrificed about this many people a year.
What is 250,000?
This Greek historian is known as "the Father of History."
Who is Herodotus?
This is the ruling Russian family from the 17th century until the 1917 revolution.
Who are the Romanovs?