Ancient History
This civilization built the Great Pyramids of Giza.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This 1776 document declared the American colonies free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This event in 1914 sparked World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This year Canada officially became a country through Confederation.
What is 1867?
This American civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This famous city was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
What is Pompeii?
This revolution began in France in 1789.
What is the French Revolution?
This 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This Canadian province joined Confederation in 1949.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before becoming president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This military leader crossed the Alps with elephants during the Second Punic War.
Who is Hannibal?
This leader helped India gain independence through nonviolent resistance.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This code name was given to the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.
What is D-Day?
This battle in 1917 became a defining moment for Canada during World War I.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This movement fought for women’s right to vote.
What is the Suffrage Movement?
This empire built roads stretching across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
What is the Roman Empire?
This event involved colonists protesting British taxes by dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This famous Canadian railway connected the country from coast to coast.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
This pandemic killed millions worldwide between 1918 and 1919.
What is the Spanish Flu?
This wonder of the ancient world was located in Alexandria.
What is the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
This wall symbolically divided East and West Germany during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This tragic event involved the systematic murder of six million Jews during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
This agreement between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government includes the numbered treaties.
What are the Treaties?
This activist famously refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?