*Reveal #11* The Rise of the French Bourbons: Henry IV, page 28

Jump to blind.

#1 What’s wrong with this picture?

Answer: That’s not Henry VII of England. That’s Henry II of France.

This is Henry VII of England:

 

#2 Parents of Mary I

Answer: Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

 

#3 Mary I burned him at the stake

Answer: Thomas Cranmer

 

#4 What’s wrong with this picture?

Hint: In the middle from Left to Right are Prince Edward, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour

Answer: Jane Seymour died within two weeks of Edward’s birth

 

#5 Mary I married him

Answer: Philip II of Spain

 

#6 Father of Mary I’s spouse

Answer:

Father of Mary I’s spouse…

= Father of Philip II

= Charles V of Spain

Ewww!

#7 Brother of the father of Mary I’s spouse

Answer:

Brother of the father of Mary I’s spouse…

= Brother of the father of Philip II

= Brother of Charles V

= Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Empire

Charles V and Ferdinand I share the same parents

 

#8 Diocletian’s claim to fame

Answer: Divided Roman Empire into four parts

 

#9 It’s where Mary I’s marriage was unpopular

Answer: England

 

#10 Number of heirs of Mary I

Answer: none, though she did have a phantom pregnancy.

*Blind #12* The Early Explorers and Colonists, page 13

#1 Magellan’s ship completed the first navigation of the world. What’s the catch? 

 

#2 He sailed to Newfoundland in 1497

 

#3 The founder of the Tudor dynasty

 

#4 Origin of the word America

 

#5 First known effort to find the Northwest Passage to China

 

#6 The Verrazano Narrows bridge connects what to what

 

#7 Giovanni da Verrazano claimed to have glimpsed the Pacific but likely saw what?

 

#8 1378 to 1417 are the years of the Western __________

 

#9 Follow up to Question 8, the cause of the Western __________

 

#10 In 1517, who nailed how many what to where?

 

 

Main source: Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present by Conrad Black

 

*Reveal #10* The Rise of the French Bourbons: Henry IV, page 23

Jump to blind.

For each of the following French kings (listed in sequential order of reign): provide name, nickname, father’s name, royal house, religion, and degree of religious tolerance

Answer:

#1

• Francis I, a.k.a. “Father and Restorer of Letters” and “Francis of the Large Nose”
• Father: Charles of Angouleme
• House of Valois
• Roman Catholicism
• Not a tyrannical Catholic (up until the 1530s)

 

#2

• Henry II
• Father: Francis I
• House of Valois
• Roman Catholicism

 

#3

• Francis II
• Father: Henry II
• House of Valois
• Roman Catholicism

 

#4

• Charles IX
• Father: Henry II
• House of Valois
• Roman Catholicism
• Massacred Huguenots

 

#5

• Henry III
• Father: Henry II
• House of Valois
• Roman Catholicism
• Massacred Huguenots, yet assassinated by Catholic fanatic

 

#6

• Henry IV, a.k.a. The Good King Henry
• Father: Antoine of Navarre
• House of Bourbon
• Five time convert: Reformed and Roman Catholic
• Moderate / Assassinated by Catholic fanatic
• Right hand man: Sully

 

#7

• Louis XIII
• Father: Henry IV
• House of Bourbon
• Roman Catholicism
• Right hand man: Concino Concini, then Cardinal Richelieu

 

#8

• Louis XIV, a.k.a. The Sun King
• Father: Louis XIII
• House of Bourbon
• Roman Catholicism
• Right hand man: Cardinal Mazarin, Colbert

 

#9

• Louis XV, a.k.a. Louis the Beloved
• Father: Louis, Duke of Burgundy
• House of Bourbon
• Roman Catholicism

 

#10 Cause of death of “Number 2” above

Answer: Henry II received a splinter in the eye while jousting

 

#11 Age of “Number 3” above when he ascended the throne

Answer: Francis II became king at age 15

Francis II and Mary, Queen of Scots

 

#12 Spouse of “Number 3” above

Answer: Francis II was married to Mary, Queen of Scots (Francis II died at age 16, it wouldn’t be her last marriage)

 

#13 Factions that aspired to take over the French throne from the Valois dynasty

Answer:

• East: Catholic House of Guise (“hardline”)
• West: Protestant House of Condé
• South: Catholic Houses of Bourbon and Montmorency

 

#14 It’s a famous 1572 massacre of Huguenots in Paris

Answer: St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre

 

#15 Two people who envied “Number 5” above

Answer:

Henry IV was envied by:

• Henry III
• Henry, Duke of Guise

 

#16 This envy led to what war

Answer: The War of the Three Henrys

 

#17 Famous utterance of Henry IV: “Paris is worth a __________.”

Answer: mass

 

#18 Approximately how many times did Champlain cross the Atlantic

Answer: 30

*Reveal #9* The Early Explorers and Colonists, page 13

Jump to blind.

#1 Countries in the Iberian peninsula

Answer:

• Spain
• Portugal
• Gibraltar (British overseas territory)
• France (small part)
• Andorra

Gibraltar, a hop skip and a jump from Algeciras

 

#2 Definition of peninsula

Answer: a piece of land surrounded by water on a majority of its borders

 

#3 True or False: the Iron Age preceded the Bronze Age

Answer: False, Bronze Age → Iron Age

 

#4 In what modern day country is Carthage?

Answer: Tunisia

 

#5 Luther was incensed that the popes, who were “wealthier than Crassus”, set out to build the most opulent edifice in the history of the world, __________, with the “money of the poor rather than their own.”

Answer: St. Peter’s Basilica

 

#6 Crassus: Roman General 115-53 BC and politician. Amassed an enormous fortune during his life. Crassus is, excepting Augustus Caesar, considered the wealthiest man in __________ history

Answer: Roman History

 

#7 Relationship of Augustus Caesar to Julius Caesar

Answer: Augustus was Julius Caesar’s great nephew

Click for slides

 

#8 She played the title character in the movie Cleopatra, 1963

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor

 

#9 Portrayer of Mark Antony in Cleopatra, 1963

Answer: Richard Burton

 

#10 Portrayer of Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, 1963

Answer: Rex Harrison

6 hour movie  → 4 minute trailer

 

*Reveal #8* The Early Explorers and Colonists, page 12

Jump to blind.

#1 Name of the strait at the southern tip of South America

Answer: Strait of Magellan

 

#2 Who commissioned Magellan’s voyage to circumnavigate the world?

Answer: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

 

#3 Complete the witticism

• I speak Spanish to __________
• Italian to __________
• French to __________
• German to _________

 

#4 The above quote is also attributed to Frederick the Great, King of __________

Answer: Prussia

 

#5 Year of Henry VIII’s apostasy

Answer: 1529

 

#6 Definition of apostasy

Answer: abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief

 

#7 The wife Henry VIII sought to divorce (first wife)

Answer: Catherine of Aragon

 

#8 The pope from whom Henry VIII failed to obtain a divorce

Answer: Pope Clement VII

 

#9 Said pope was dependent upon what notable monarch

Answer: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

 

#10 Catherine of Aragon’s notable nephew

Answer: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

In summary:

“In 1527 Henry asked Pope Clement to annul the marriage, but the Pope, possibly acting under pressure from Catherine’s nephew, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, whose effective prisoner he was, refused.”

Get it?

 

 

*Blind #11* The Rise of the French Bourbons: Henry IV, page 28

Jump to reveal.

#1 What’s wrong with this picture?

#2 Parents of Mary I

 

#3 Mary I burned him at the stake

 

#4 What’s wrong with this picture?

Hint: In the middle from Left to Right are Prince Edward, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour

 

#5 Mary I married him

 

#6 Father of Mary I’s spouse

 

#7 Brother of the father of Mary I’s spouse

 

#8 Diocletian’s claim to fame

 

#9 It’s where Mary I’s marriage was unpopular

 

#10 Number of heirs of Mary I

 

 

*Reveal #7* The Early Explorers and Colonists, pages 11-12

Jump to blind.

#1 It’s what Newfoundland was called in Leif Erikson’s time

Answer: Vinland

 

#2 Father of Leif Erikson

Answer: Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red

 

#3 Newfoundland landing point for Leif Erikson

Answer: L’Anse aux Meadows

 

#4 Country of birth of Leif Erikson

Answer: Iceland

Iceland: Uninhabited until around 870

 

#5 They tangled with Thorval Erikson in Newfoundland

Answer: Dorset Eskimos

 

#6 Columbus discovered America in what year?

Answer: 1492

 

#7 Country that Columbus alleged to have visited in 1477

Answer: Iceland

 

#8 List the first great powers in the fifteenth century

Answer:

• Britain
• France
• Turks
• the Alliance of the Holy Roman Empire (“HRE”) of Austria and Spain, and most of the Netherlands

 

#9 It’s what fascinated the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Answer:

Tales of the wealth of the Orient:

• Silks
• Spices
• Gems
• Precious metals

 

#10 He named the Pacific

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

 

Magellan called the ocean Pacífico (or “Pacific” meaning, “peaceful”)

*Blind #10* The Rise of the French Bourbons: Henry IV, page 23

Jump to reveal.

For each of the following French kings (listed in sequential order of reign): provide name, nickname, father’s name, royal house, religion, and degree of religious tolerance

#1

 

#2

 

#3

 

#4

 

#5

 

#6

 

#7

 

#8

 

#9

 

#10 Cause of death of “Number 2” above

 

#11 Age of “Number 3” above when he ascended the throne

 

#12 Spouse of “Number 3” above

 

#13 Factions that aspired to take over the French throne from the Valois dynasty

 

#14 It’s a famous 1572 massacre of Huguenots in Paris

 

#15 Two people who envied “Number 5” above

 

#16 This envy led to what war

 

#17 Famous utterance of Henry IV: “Paris is worth a __________.”

 

#18 Approximately how many times did Champlain cross the Atlantic

*Reveal #6* Canada’s Original Inhabitants, pages 7-8

Jump to blind.

#1 Five nations of the Iroquois league

(Name 2 for the win.)

Answer:

• Seneca
• Cayuga
• Oneida
• Onondaga
• Mohawk

 

#2 The Indians were splendid woodsmen and craftsmen but they were a Stone Age culture that had not discovered the __________

Answer: wheel

Note: According to wikipedia the wheel was invented independently in the New World.

 

 

#3 Far western Indians had this type of house

Answer: plank house

 

#4 Most Indians were __________, moving on after they had hunted down, fished out, or chased off most of the game and fish

Answer: nomadic

 

#5 Life expectancy for Indians was ______ to ______ years about the same as for Europeans at the time

Answer: 25 to 30

 

#6 The main (Indian) groups … almost all considered _________ a natural and desirable state

Answer: war

 

#7 It’s what conferred a huge advantage to Europeans in any recourse to violence with Indians

Answer:

• firearms, especially cannon
• superior military tactics

Boom.

 

#8 Three nationalities that tried to setup permanently in what became the U.S. and Canada

Answer*:

• French
• British
• Dutch

*except for a slight Spanish presence along what is now the Mexican border and the Gulf Coast

 

#9 The __________, __________ and __________ had a much more commendable record with the Indians than did the Puritans who regarded them as almost irretrievable savages

Answer:

• Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
• Sulpicians (Society of the Priests of Saint-Sulpice)
• Récollets (Franciscans)

 

Jesuits

Sulpicians

Franciscans

 

#10 __________ clothing was much more comfortable and efficient than the costumes of animal hides the Indians had been using

Answer: woolen

 

*Reveal #5* The Rise of the French Bourbons, page 30

Jump to blind.

#1 Type of mine Champlain was barred from visiting in Mexico

Answer: Silver

 

#2 Definition of isthmian

Of or relating to the Isthmus of Corinth (Corinth Canal)

Isthmus: a narrow strip of land with sea on either side forming a link between two larger areas of land

Spot the isthmuses

Isthmuses spotted:

• Panama Canal
• and this one…

Isthmus of Tehuantepec

 

#3 Failed French colonizers studied by Champlain

Answer:

• Cartier
• Chauvin
• Marquis de la Roche
• Jean Ribault
• René de Laudonnière

Replica of Chauvin’s original house in Tadoussac

 

#4 First European to …

… describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River

Answer: Jacques Cartier

 

#5 Number of pre-Columbian inhabitants/Indians in what became Canada

(“… though scholars bandy about a range of numbers”)

Answer: 200,000

 

#6 Year of first voyage of Jacques Cartier to Canada

Answer: 1534

Scroll up for first voyage. Here’s Cartier’s second voyage. Stadacona = Quebec City

 

#7 French king at the time of Cartier’s first voyage to Canada

Answer: Francis I

Francis I, a.k.a. François du Grand Nez

 

#8 Name the people/tribe

Indians from Lower North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River

Answer: Algonquin

Algonquin couple, 18th-century watercolor

#9 Name the people/tribe

Indians in Acadia and Nova Scotia

Answer:

• Micmac
• Maliseet

John Derbyshire Eye Roll Award for Spelling, much?

Maliseet

 

#10 Name the people/tribe

Indians north of the Great Lakes

(Name 1 of 3 for the win)

Answer:

• Ottawa
• Huron
• Chippewa

 

#11 Name the people/tribe

Indians south of the Great Lakes

(Name 1 of 1)

Answer: Iroquois

 

Main source: Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present by Conrad Black