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100
A group of Advisors who helped the king.
What is the Cabinet?
100
What are some characteristics of Islamic Art?
It uses geometric and abstract shapes, it does not represent humans.
100
What is the lowest ranking member of society under feudalism?
What is a peasant or serf?
100
To be formally excluded from church membership.
What is excommunicated?
100
The place where flavorable and aromatic spices came from.
What is India?
200
The type of people England originally sent to live in Australia.
Who are prisoners?
200
This determined the early Native Americans' way of life.
What is the environment?
200
Name the Germanic tribes that attacked Europe from the North.
What are the Vikings?
200
What is the rebirth of Europe where there was a revival of interest in Greek and Roman culture and scholarship.
What is the Renaissance?
200
A situation in which one company controls an industry or is the only provider of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
300
Name the English Monarch who lost the American colonies.
Who is King George III.
300
The part of Europe that was captured by the Muslims.
What is Spain?
300
Name 3 of the 5 people that worked in the Catholic Church.
Who are the Pope, Cardinals, Arch Bishops, Bishops and Priests.
300
Who painted the Sistine Chapel and scupted David?
Who is Michelangelo?
300
Why did Columbus' crew nearly give up the voyage?
They sailed a long time with no sight of land and the crew thought they would sail off the earth.
400
This was a colony of England until 1947 and home to Mahatman Gandhi.
What is India?
400
What did the Muslim culture preserve when Europe sank into the Dark Ages?
What are ancient texts? (especially Greek and Roman manuscripts)
400
Knights showed off their fighting skills here.
What is a tournament?
400
Who was the disciple of Jesus that went on several missions and founded many early Christian churches including the one in Rome.
Who is Peter?
400
Name two foods that originated in the Americas.
What are corn, potatoes, squash, chili peppers, peanuts or tomatoes?
500
This country split from Great Britain in the 1920's and was the source of terrorist fighting between Catholics and Protestants.
What is Ireland?
500
The holy book of Islam.
What was the Quran? (Koran)
500
Name the steps of the Scientific Method.
Observation, hypothesis, prediction and experiment.
500
What invention made it easier for ideas to spread during the Scientific Revolution?
What is the printing press?
500
What is the name of the explorer who first sailed around the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan? (from Spain)