The 1400s Quiz

Name the people, places, events, etc that took place during the 1400s

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Hint	Year	Answer
1) This explorer sailed the Atlantic in search of a route to India but landed in North America	1492-1504	Christopher Columbus
2) This Byzantine capital falls to the Ottoman reign	1453	Constantinople
3) This Venetian explorer reached the Canadian coast, claiming the land for England	1497	John Cabot
3) A brutal conflict between the English houses of York and Lancaster causes this war	1455-1487	War of the Roses
4) This French teenager leads a major rebellion in France against English forces at Orleans	1429-1430	Joan of Arc
5) The war in which the above fought in between the French and English	1337-1453	Hundred Years
6) Johannes Gutenberg invents this revolutionary machine, and publishes the Gutenberg Bible	1450	Printing Press
7) This treaty between Spain and Portugal divided newly discovered lands outside Europe for colonization	1494	Tordesillas
8) This empire dominates Iran and much of central Asia, emerging from a fragmented Mongol reign	1370-1400s	Timurid
9) Casa di San Giorgio is founded in this Italian city as one of the first public banks	1407	Genoa
10) This Portuguese explorer discovers the west African coast and establishes European trade routes	1420s-1460	Henry the Navigator
11) This Italian city becomes the center of the flourishing Renaissance era of art and culture	1450s	Florence
12) This Russian prince comes to power and unites much of the country for Moscow	1462-1505	Ivan
13) This Portuguese explorer establishes a trade route to India around the southern tip of Africa	1497-1499	Vasco De Gama
14) This Renaissance artist creates the Bacchus sculpture, the Roman god of wine	1496-1497	Michelangelo
15) This empire, under king Boabdil of Granada, surrenders to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain	1492	Moor

Hint	Year	Answer
16) This family of bankers becomes a powerful empire in Florence	1400s >	Medici
17) Ming emperor Yongle moves the capital from Nanjing to this current capital	1403	Beijing
18) A university is established in this northern Italian city, one of the oldest in Europe still in operation	1404	Turin
19) This Khmer capital is sacked by Thai invaders	1431	Angkor
20) This Peruvian empire is founded, ruling the area until the later Spanish conquest	1438	Inca
21) This Renaissance painter is born in Anchiano, Italy, famous for the Mona Lisa	1452	Leonardo DaVinci
22) Another famous Renaissance artist is born in Urbino, Italy, known for his works like the Transfiguration	1483	Rafael
23) This imperial complex in Beijing is completed	1420	Forbidden City
24) This Admiral sails to Indonesia, Ceylon, Persia and east Africa to spread Chinese influence under the Ming rule	1405-1433	Zheng He
25) The outnumbered English defeat the French forces at this northern French city in a pivotal battle	1415	Agincourt
26) This king unites the Aztecs, which become the dominant power in Mesoamerica	1440-1469	Montezuma I
27) This famous Incan citadel is constructed high in the Andes	1450s	Machu Picchu
28) This Bosnian capital is founded by the Ottomans	1461	Sarajevo
29) The Ottomans invade this Greek island, faced with a small group of Knights Hospitaller	1480	Rhodes
30) This Portuguese navigator becomes the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa	1488	Bartolomeu Dias

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