This time period ushered in the use of automated machines in factories and led to urbanization.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
This ancient king wrote the oldest code of law found so far.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
This war was ended through the use of the first nuclear bomb.
What is World War II?
100
This continent is home to the biggest desert on Earth and several "desert cultures" or "oasis cultures" of people.
What is Africa?
100
This is the next Presidential election year in the US.
What is 2016.
200
This particular metal was used to build better, stronger, faster, harder structures.
What is steel?
200
This ancient empire was led by Julius Caesar and conquered much of modern-day Europe and North Africa.
What is the Roman Empire?
200
This war introduced the use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas.
What is World War I?
200
This country is well known for being the home of Catholicism both in history and the modern day.
What is Italy?
200
This particular country is currently in a form of civil war; many people on the Eastern edge want to become part of Russia.
What is Ukraine?
300
This is theoretical "end result" according to Karl Marx, in which the proletariat overthrow the bourgeoisie and share ownership of the means of production.
What is Communism?
300
This ancient empire was the Eastern end destination of a major transcontinental trade in goods.
What is ancient China?
300
These three countries were allied against Germany in World War I.
What are Britain, France, and Russia?
300
This country was historically the home of Islam and has since (after two world wars) become the home of radical forms of Islam.
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
This is the radical terrorist organization currently operating in the Middle East and attempting to overtake Iraqi and Syrian land.
What is ISIS?
400
This fuel led to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
What is coal?
400
This ancient civilization created Democracy.
What is Ancient Greece?
400
What group was given the nation of Israel after an attempted genocide in the 1930s?
Who are the Jews?
400
This particular country is home to the world's largest festival of light, festival of colors, and the Taj Mahal.
What is India?
400
This particular artist was the victim of a verbal snub by Kanye West after the Grammys.
Who is Beck?
500
This is the "mountain" on which a "battle" was fought between company owners and workers in West Virginia.
What is Blair Mountain?
500
This ancient civilization went to war with the Muslims during the Crusades.
What is ancient Byzantium?
500
This continent was "carved" into European territories for easy conquest and gathering of resources and led to the first World War.
What is Africa?
500
This particular country is home to the highest number of Muslims in the world.
What is Indonesia?
500
This particular world leader is close friends with Dennis Rodman and is a world pariah.