World (1500s)

Question 1

What scholarly order was founded in 1534 by seven men, including Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier?

Answer 1

Society of Jesus / Jesuit Order

Question 2

In 1510, an abbot named Philotheus wrote to Basil III, passionately arguing that as Rome has fallen to heresy and Constantinople to Islam, there is to be a Third Rome, a dominion centered in what city?

Answer 2

Moscow

Question 3

Before heading north, this Mississippi man served as Pizarro’s chief lieutenant.

Answer 3

Hernando de Soto

Question 4

Pizarro scored big in an agreement with the Spanish crown known as the capitulation of this city 40 miles from Madrid.

Answer 4

Toledo