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Although his first efforts against the Inca Empire in the 1520s failed, this conquistador captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1532 and executed him one year later.

In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led still another explosion of evangelical fervor, involving using vivid depictions of the terrors of hell, his best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” perfectly exemplifies this terrifying approach?

On October 12, 1492, who made landfall on an island in the Bahamas, and then sailed to an island he named Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti)?

What colony was small, consisting of only 117 people, who suffered a poor relationship with the local Croatans struggling to survive in their new land, and when John White returned from England, the entire colony had disappeared (known as the lost colony)?

Which of the following countries became a global power following the French and Indian War?

The ____________, or the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.

What were the positive and negative effects of the Crusades on Medieval Europe?

This lasted from 1642 to 1649 and pitted the king, Charles I, and his Royalist supporters against Oliver Cromwell and his Parliamentary forces.

What was the outcome of the French and Indian War, and how did its aftermath impact the American colonies?  

What was an uprising of both White people and Black people who believed that the Virginia government was impeding their access to land and wealth and seemed to do little to clear the land of Native Americans, hastened the transition to African slavery in the Chesapeake colonies?