Inventions/Innovations
A machine used to print the bible and other important documents for the masses during the renaissance era.
What is the printing press?
The belief held by the Hindi and Buddhist faiths that one's soul is reborn into a new earthly body.
What is reincarnation?
The leader responsible for spreading Greek Hellenistic culture throughout the Mediterranean regions such as Asia, Northern Africa, and Persia.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The event that followed the Babylonian takeover of Judah, where most of the inhabitants were removed from their homelands.
Jewish Diaspora
What is maize?
A world wonder built by an ancient civilization using advanced math, organization, and engineering.
What are the Great Pyramids of Egypt?
A list of grievances regarding the corruption and practices in the Catholic church that would lead to the eventual split of Christian faiths.
What is the 95 Thesis?
Spreading from the eastern shores of China to the western regions of Europe, this was the largest empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Europeans forcing Native people into working their own land for European gain after colonizing the Americas.
The two ancient societies who created the blueprint for democratic governments and law
Greek and Roman
The practice of traveling for resources that was ended thanks to the domestication of animals and the establishment of farms.
What is a Nomad?
The belief that leadership was based on the continuous judgement of the gods, and as long as a leader was just and the empire was prosperous they would stay in power.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Separated by a small channel these countries fought one another for the prosperity of their people and to expand their lands during the Hundred Years War.
England and France
The invisible killer that caused the greatest lose of life to the Native peoples of the Americas and in turn a shortage of those fit to work for Europeans.
What is disease?
The major duties that all Muslims must perform.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
Florentine bankers responsible for bringing back fine art and the growth of learning new skills throughout Europe.
Who was the Medici family?
The two main groups involved in the fight for control of the Holy Land and the city of Jerusalem during the Crusades.
Stretching around the Mediterranean, this gunpowder empire had strongholds in Greece, the Arabian Peninsula, and Africa.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The rigid social order of power that often dictated a very difficult life for those in a lower class.
What is the feudal system?
A man who is smart, charming, and well rounded in various cultures.
What is a renaissance man?
Leader of the Byzantine Empire who wrote and rewrote laws to help organize and efficiently rule his people.
Who is Justinian?
A Calvinist belief that God has already planned the fate of people and the world.
What is Predestination?
An ancient people that were broken up into various city-states due to their independent nature and large mountainous regions
Who are the Greeks?
The payment for the forgiveness of one's sins.
What is an Indulgence?
What is the City of Alexandria?