Economics is FUN !
Chicken and Egg
Documentation
Pairs with distinction -
in correct order
The End
100

How the price of pretty much anything is set (or reverts to)

What is the law of supply and demand

100
Plato, Alexander, Socrates, Aristotle
Who would properly be ordered "Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander"
100
This book didn't exactly contain the phrase "the end justifies the means", but it is associated with the phrase nevertheless
Machiavelli's The Prince
100
The first was known for heavy, rounded arches; the second for tall pointed ones.
What are "Romanesque" and "Gothic"
100
He drank hemlock
How did Socrates die?
200

In this book, this writer argued that government should interfere as little as possible in economic matters, or, you know that French term ....

What is The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, which describes Laissez-Faire economics, comparative advantage, etc.)

200
The Printing Press, The English Civil War, The 95 Theses, and Calvin's Geneva
What is correctly ordered "The Printing Press, the 95 Theses, Calvin's Geneva, and The English Civil War"
200

These two authors, writing on two different sides of the pond, came up with remarkably similar - nay! nearly echoing - arguments justifying revolution

Who are John Locke in his Two Treatises on Government and Thomas Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence

200

The economic system/structure that prevailed in the Middle Ages and the government system/structure that prevailed in the Middle Ages

What are Manorialism and Feudalism?

200
An arrow to the Heel
How did Achilles reputedly die?
300

That's the principle behind "Limited Liability" and why its development aided in the growth of Capitalism

What is 'making it so that if something goes badly for a company, investors in that company lose only the value of their investment/stock, and not their other personal property; it made it MUCH safer to invest so more people invested

300
The Louisiana Purchase, Waterloo, Thermidor, The Storming of the Bastille
What is a mangled order of these: The Storming of the Bastille, Thermidor, The Louisiana Purchase, Waterloo
300

That concept is called Cartesian Dualism

What is concept that our bodies are one thing and our minds are another?

300
That's the essential difference between Constitutionalism and Absolutism
What is "constitutionalism sets recognized limits on the ruler's power; absolutism does not limit a ruler's power."
300
1348; it was about 1/3
What is the first year of the black/Bubonic plague in Europe and the rough estimate of the portion of the human population it killed over the following three years
400
The first is the amount you spent in a given period in excess of what you took in, and the second it how you have to pay for that until you've paid it off.

What are deficit and debt service?

400

The Zimmerman Note, The 'Blank Check", the Assassination of the Archduke, The world-wide flu epidemic, the invasion of Belgium

What is the Assassination, the Blank Check, the Invasion, The Zimmerman Note, and The Flu?

400

This work uses a metaphor of a firelit cave to represent the limitations of human perception

What is Plato's Republic

400
They both promoted the revolution, one through writing and the other through art (including a piece featuring the first guy)
Who are Marat and David
400
His crew got around but he didn't
Who was Magellan?
500

This was the agreement in the 1840s that unified trade and currency between the many German-speaking states which foreshadowed German unification

What is Zollverein

500

Hobbes, Cervantes, Bismarck, Wilson, Watt, Cromwell

In correct order: Cervantes, Cromwell, Hobbes, Watt, Faraday, Bismarck, Wilson

500

"We're not leaving until we've remade the government"

What was the assertion of the Tennis Court Oath?

500
That's the difference between the outcomes of the English Civil War and those of the Glorious Revolution
What is "restoration of the Monarchy" VS. "clear assertion that Parliament ultimately has more power than the King, and guarantee of some rights such as Habeas Corpus"
500
Even lacking an eye and an arm, he died satisfied after a successful naval battle saying 'at least I have done my duty." (person and battle)
How did Admiral Horatio Nelson die at the end of the Battle of Trafalgar
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