Ancient Greece
What Greek city state was famous for its hoplites and its heroic stand at Thermopylae?
Sparta
Which Roman dictator conquered Gaul and was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44BC?
Julius Caesar
Which English philosopher that life without government was "nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes
What was the name of the famous palace outside of Paris?
Versailles
Who became the richest man in the world after he dominated the American Oil Industry?
John Rockefeller
What Greek polis won the Battle of Marathon?
Athens
Which king was the founder of Rome?
Romulus
Which English scientist came up with the law of gravity?
Issac Newton
Which famous Queen of France was infamous for her spending on luxury items and was executed during the French Revolution?
Marie Antoinette
Which Scottish immmigrant to America ended up building the US Steel Company?
Andrew Carnegie
Which Macedonian king conquered the Persian empire?
Which Carthaginian general destroyed several Roman armies and was Rome's greatest enemy during the Second Punic War?
Hannibal Barca
What was the famous existential idea spoken by Descartes?
I think therefore I am
Which man became a dictator and ended the French Revolution when he crowned himself as emperor?
Napoleon
Which US President decided to start breaking up some of the biggest trusts in America?
Teddy Roosevelt
Which Greek philosopher asked questions in the agora?
Socrates
Which Roman emperor started the Pax Romana by ending the Civil War?
Caesar Augustus
Which French philosophe argued that there should be a separation of powers?
Montesquieu
Who led the French Revolution during the “Reign of Terror?”
Maximilian Robespierre
Who invented the steam engine?
James Watt
Who was the Athenian leader that built the Parthenon and started the Peloponnesian War?
Pericles
Which law legalized Chistianity in 313 AD?
The Edict of Milan
Who is the main author of the Constitution of the United States?
James Madison
Name one of the famous paintings from the French neo-classical painter Jacques Louis David?
Oath of the Horatii, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, the Coronation of Napoleon
Who wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776 and wrote down the law of supply and demand?
Adam Smith