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Why did Plague Doctors wear chicken masks? Black Death for 100 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Protection from bad smells that they thought caused the disease.

What actually caused the Black Plague? Black Death for 200 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Bacteria + Fleas + Rats Push the Space Bar to check your answer.

In the image on the left the Grim Reaper is driving a carriage. What does that character represent? Black Death for 300 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Death caused by the Black Plague

Black Death for 400 The peasants benefited from the Black Death because… Push the Space Bar to check your answer. There was a scarcity of workers, so they could demand wages.

Black Death 500 What was the name of the religious group that whipped and punished themselves to try and end the Black Plague? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. The flagellants

Geography for 100 Where did the Renaissance begin? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Italy.

Geography for 200 What three continents made up the Old World? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Africa, Asia, Europe

Geography for 300 Where did the Black Plague originate, and what was the first area in Europe to be infected? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Central Asia, Italy

Geography for 400 Name two animals and two diseases that were brought from the Old World to the New World Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Animals: Horse, Pig, Cow, Sheep, Goats Diseases: Small Pox, Influenza, Tuberculosis

Geography for 500 What was the purpose of the Papal Line of Demarcation? Who was the person who drew the line? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Treaty of Tordesillas, Written by the Pope

Renaissance for 100 The term “renaissance” is actually a French word that means... Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Rebirth

Renaissance 200 Renaissance humanists especially studied ‘classical’ civilizations. What civilizations did they consider the best? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Greek and Roman

Renaissance for 300 Renaissance Humanism is found in this Leonardo da Vinci painting because… Push the Space Bar to check your answer. It celebrates the individual and life here and now (instead of focusing on the afterlife)

Renaissance 400 This painting is called School of Athens. How does it represent the new ideas of the Renaissance? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Shows classical thinkers who improved life on earth with their new ideas.

Renaissance for 500 During the Renaissance Gutenberg’s Printing Press was used to republish an old book about traveling to China and visiting the Mongols. Christopher Columbus read that book and it inspired his journey. Who wrote that book? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Marco Polo.

Exploration for 100 Where was Christopher Columbus trying to sail to? Where did he actually land? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. The Indies (India or China), Islands in the Caribbean

Exploration for 200 Name and briefly explain the 3 motivating factors that encouraged Old World Explorers. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Gold – $ Glory – Fame God – Convert Natives to Christianity

Exploration for 300 How did Ferdinand Magellan prove without a doubt that the world was round? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Circumnavigated the Globe (Sailed all the way around)

Exploration for 400 Who was the first European to sail all the way to India and trade for spices? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Vasco da Gama

Exploration for 500 Give two reasons why Prince Henry the Navigator didn’t want to use the overland trade route to get to Asia? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. 1)Portugal was blocked by Spain 2)Didn’t want to pay fees ($) to the Muslim merchants between Europe and Asia

Conquistadors for 100 Name the two most famous conquistadors in the New World. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Cortes & Pizarro

Conquistadors for 200 Which empire was overthrown by Pizarro, and which empire was overthrown by Cortes? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Pizarro defeated the Inca, Cortes defeated the Aztecs

Conquistadors for 300 Name the two most powerful leaders overthrown by the Conquistadors. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Montezuma & Atahualpa

Conquistadors for 400 According to Jared Diamond what were the three main reasons why the Conquistadors successfully defeated the American Empires? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Guns, Germs & Steel

Conquistadors for 500 Who is in the image? What was her contribution to the conquest of the New World? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. La Malinche or Dona Marina Translator for Cortes.