People
Renaissance artist who dissected corpses to learn about human anatomy?
Leonardo da Vinci
Define: circumnavigate
to travel/sail around the world
Where did the Renaissance start?
Italy
Napoleon's last battle was Waterloo. What does that mean today?
epic failure, disaster, the end
Religion (sect) formed by Martin Luther's break with the Catholic Church
Protestantism (Lutheran)
This French general became emperor of French empire (early 1800s)
Napoleon
Vegetable brought from Americas TO Europe as animal fodder (but you probably eat it:-)
corn
Who "lived" on Mt. Olympus?
Greek gods
What (who) is a Tsar? (or Tzar or Csar or Czar)
King (Russia)
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated June 28, 1914, it was the kickoff to what event?
World War I
If a guy had a "job" as a squire, it was on-the-job training to be what at age 21?
Knight
sail shape so ships could move in a zigzag pattern
triangle
Where is Versailles?
France
Define: reconnaissance
Spying (what airplanes were first used for in WWI)
What happened to the R.M.S. Lusitania on May 7, 1915?
It was torpedoed by a German sub and sank
Rome's founders Romulus and Remus were "raised" by what animal?
She-wolf
Define: Propaganda
Lies (to get people to believe in your cause)
What was an agora in Ancient Greece? Lots of people went there!
marketplace
26 mile race named for a battle in Ancient Greece (Pheidippides ran it to tell about victory, then dropped dead)
Marathon
What country was blamed for World War I (the WHOLE thing)?
Germany
Devout Muslims must do this 5x every day. What is it?
Pray (facing Mecca)
What animals are known as "Ships of the Desert"?
camels
What did aqueducts carry in Ancient Rome?
water
Largest land mammal on Earth & part of Hannibal's expedition over the Alps
elephant
Roman Army Decimation: what happened to every 10th soldier?
killed (to keep order and put down dissent)