Middle Ages
This Middle Ages battle is a pivotal moment in history as the outcome prevented the spread of Islam into Western Europe.
What is The Battle of Tours?
This country was the birthplace of the European Renaissance.
What is Italy?
Nicolas Copernicus was a revolutionary because he proposed this celestial body was the center of the known universe, not the Earth.
What is the sun?
What is the Maya?
Explorers from this country were the leaders in European exploration in the late-1400s as they had expert knowledge and advanced navigational technology.
What is Portugal?
This is what we call a king or queen who rules with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people.
This was a global pandemic during the Middle Ages that began in Central Asia and was likely carried to Europe through fleas and rats on trading vessels. It wiped out as much as 60% of Europe's population.
What was The Black Death? or
What was the Bubonic Plague?
This group is credited with significant contributions to the Renaissance as their golden age preserved many classical Greek and Roman texts.
What is the Muslim world?
Thinkers such as Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created this new step-by-step method of inquiry, experimentation, and observation. We still use this today.
What is the Scientific Method?
This civilization is known for amazing engineering accomplishments of building roads and bridges high up in the Andes mountains
What is Inca?
In addition to the desire to spread Christianity, European explorers were looking to cash in on lucrative trade in what commodity?
What is the Spice trade?
This was the lowest class in French pre-revolutionary society who made up 97% of the population, owned little land, but paid all the taxes. They were the "frustrated masses" of the French Revolution.
Who was the Third Estate?
This was the name of the social order used throughout much of Eurasia during the Middle Ages. There was little freedom and no social mobility between classes.
What is the Feudal System?
This is the German priest and theologian who initiated the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century as a result of his disillusionment over the widespread corruption in the Catholic Church.
Who is Martin Luther?
This the French philosopher who introduced the ideas of checks and balances and separation of powers. He greatly influenced the American founding fathers.
Who is Montesquieu?
The name of the capital of the Aztec civilization
What is Tenochtitlan?
This "line" was drawn on the globe in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI to settle a disupte between Spain and Portugal over settling rights.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
This man led the liberal Jacobins in the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror. He will become a dictator and will eventually be killed by guillotine.
Who is Robespierre?
This is the name of the document signed in Middle Ages England under King John I. It was the first of its kind to place limits on the King's Power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This invention in around 1440 AD helped spread the information of the Reformation.
What is the Printing Press?
This Scottish philosopher applied natural law to the economy by suggesting government keep their "hands off" the economy and letting it be a free market.
Who is Adam Smith?
The game played by the Mayans that was at the cultural center of every city-state and could result in the sacrifice of members of the losing side was called:
What is pok-a-tok?
What is the Taino tribe?
This revolution happened on a French island nation. It is the most successful slave revolt in history.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This was a series of military expeditions from parts of Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean with the religious goal of taking up arms to protect Christ and his Kingdom.
What is the Crusades?
Name one of these two famous Renaissance artists (1) he is responsible for some of the most impressive works of the time, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper; (2) he sculpted the David statue and painted the Sistine Chapel.
(1) Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
(2) Who is Michelangelo?
This was the English philosopher who believed people to be naturally good and as having natural rights such as life, liberty and property.
Who was John Locke?
This civilization made advancements in medicine including performing surgery on the skull, using basic anesthesia, and mummifying their dead.
What is Inca?
It is estimated that 90% of indigenous people in the Americas had this response to the arrival of Europeans.
What is death?
This was one of many European countries who participated in the European revolutions of 1848 (lots of correct answers!)
What is Ireland? What is France? What is German Confederation? What is Austria? What is Hungary? What is the Italian States? What is Poland What is Denmark? What is Spain?