The World According to Hegel
This war began in 1618 and ended in 1648 giving it an apt name.
What is the Thirty Years War?
This fifth century scourge of Europe is the origin of the myths around a great ring of power.
Who is Attila?
This is the 1676 uprising in Jamestown, Virginia that featured indentured servants united with enslaved Africans. This resulted in the Virginia Slave Codes enslaving Africans for life.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The German name for the one-eyed chief of the gods.
Who is Wotan?
The son of Wotan whose sword is shattered to pieces when he fights to free Sieglinde from Hunding.
Who is Sigmund?
Hegel brought this element of philosophy to history making him the first "father of modern history."
What is a dialectic?
This mysterious people originated in Scandinavia, moved down into Poland before crossing the frozen Rhine. They eventually settled in Lyons, France lending the region its name.
Who were the Burgundians?
He was of Indian descent and he sued the United States in 1923 for citizenship based on the argument that he was an Aryan.
Who was Bhagat Singh Thind?
This was built by Fasolt and Fafner for Wotan.
What is Valhalla?
He betrays the hero by stabbing him in the back on a boar hunt.
Who is Hagen?
The result of the complex interaction (called a dialectic) between a thesis and an antithesis.
What is a synthesis?
This fearsome group of northerners crossed the frozen Rhine and pillaged their way as far as northern Africa giving birth to a word that means to destroy someone's property.
Who were the Vandals?
This man of Japanese descent sued the United States to be considered "white" based on the fact that his skin was whiter than most people of European descent.
Who was Seiji Ozawa?
The Nibelung who renounced love and was able to fashion a ring out of the Rhinegold.
Who is Alberich?
Once given a potion of forgetfulness, the hero forgets his Valkyrie love and is smitten with this Gibichung.
Who is Gutrune?
The synthesis of the dialectic between the Church (morality) and the State (law).
What is the nation-state (rights)?
This Merovingian was the first King of the Franks, absorbing groups such as the Burgundians under one rule.
Who was Clovis?
This 1896 court case upheld the Jim Crow laws being enforced by a southern railroad, thereby ensuring more than half a century of segregation.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
Wagner's name for Ragnarok.
What is Gotterdammerung?
Wotan would have let Sigmund make off with Sieglinde were it not for this enforcer of marriage.
Who is Fricka?
This is the Hegelian Hero who brought the modern spirit of the nation state in which all are free to a world in which only some were free.
Who was Martin Luther?
The Greeks saw them all as Celts, but the Romans distinguished between Celts, who were a part of the Roman empire, and this name, which meant beyond Roman control.
Who are the Germani?
This was signed by President Coolidge shifting the percentages of immigrants into the United States back to the percentages recorded in the 1890 census. This banned all Asian immigration including the Japanese.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
He is the Nibelung who is both "mother and father" to the opera's hero.
Who is Mime?
The price of a palace is expensive, but not as much as this beautiful goddess is worth.
Who is Freja?