Dates & Periodization

Question 1

A.D.

Answer 1

Latin: Anno Domini

“In the year of the Lord”

Question 2

B.C.

Answer 2

Before Christ

Question 3

B.C.E.

Answer 3

Before the Common (Christian) Era

Question 4

C.E.

Answer 4

In the Common (Christian) Era

Question 5

Classical Antiquity

Answer 5

ca. 700 B.C. - 476 A.D.

Question 6

The Visigoths Sack Rome

Answer 6

410 A.D.

Question 7

The Great Pestilence (Black Death)

Answer 7

ca. 1347 - 1353 A.D.

Question 8

Columbus lands on San Salvador

Answer 8

1492 A.D.

Question 9

The “Hundred Years” War between England and France

Answer 9

1337 - 1453 A.D.

Question 10

The American Civil War

Answer 10

1861 - 1865 A.D.

Question 11

ca.

Answer 11

Abbreviation for Latin circa, “around, about, approximately”

Question 12

WWI

Answer 12

World War I

1914 - 1918 A.D.

Question 13

WWII

Answer 13

World War II

1939 - 1945 A.D.

Question 14

The American Revolutionary War

Answer 14

1775 - 1783 A.D.

Question 15

Octavian named Augustus, the first Roman Emperor

Answer 15

27 B.C.

Question 16

Romulus Augustus, the last Roman Emperor, deposed by Odoacer

Answer 16

476 A.D.

Sometimes cited as the end of antiquity, and the beginning of the Middle Ages

Question 17

Twenty-First Century A.D.

Answer 17

Years 2000 - 2099 A.D.

Question 18

Twentieth Century A.D.

Answer 18

Years 1900 - 1999 A.D.

Question 19

Nineteenth Century A.D.

Answer 19

Years 1800 - 1899 A.D.

Question 20

Eighteenth Century A.D.

Answer 20

Years 1700 - 1799 A.D.

Question 21

Seventeeth Century A.D.

Answer 21

Years 1600 -1699 A.D.

Question 22

Sixteenth Century A.D.

Answer 22

Years 1500 - 1599 A.D.

Question 23

Fifteenth Century A.D.

Answer 23

Years 1400 - 1499 A.D.

Question 24

First Millennium A.D.

Answer 24

Years 1 - 999 A.D.

Question 25

Fourteenth Century A.D.

Answer 25

Years 1300 -1399 A.D.

Question 26

Second Millennium A.D.

Answer 26

Years 1000 - 1999 A.D.

Question 27

First Century B.C.

Answer 27

Years 99 - 1 B.C.

Question 28

First Century A.D.

Answer 28

Years 1 - 99 A.D.

Question 29

First Millennium B.C.

Answer 29

Years 999 - 1 B.C.

Question 30

Second Millennium B.C.

Answer 30

Years 1999 - 1000 B.C.

Question 31

Millennium

What is the plural of this word?

Answer 31

Millennia

What is the singular of this word?

Question 32

The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire

Answer 32

1453 A.D.

Sometimes cited as the end of the Middle Ages, and the beginning of the Renaissance

Question 33

The Middle Ages, Medieval Period, or (popularly) the Dark Ages

Answer 33

ca. 476 - 1453

(From the last Roman Emperor to the Fall of Constantinople)

Question 34

The Trojan War

Answer 34

ca. 1200 B.C.