ANCIENT WORLD
This ancient civilization built the pyramids at Giza.
What is Ancient Egypt?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This civil rights leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Great Wall is located in this country.
What is China?
True or False: Dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time.
What is false?
This ancient civilization is famous for democracy, the Olympics, and philosophers such as Socrates.
What is Ancient Greece?
The Declaration of Independence was adopted in this year.
What is 1776?
This Mongol leader created one of history's largest land empires.
Who is Genghis Khan?
The Colosseum is located in this modern European capital.
What is Rome?
Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln was famous for wearing this type of hat.
What is a top/stovepipe hat?
According to legend, the city was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus.
What is Rome?
This war was fought between the Union and the Confederacy.
What is the American Civil War?
This French military leader crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Machu Picchu was built by this civilization.
Who were the Inca?
This ship famously sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.
What is the Titanic?
This writing system of ancient Mesopotamia used wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.
What is cuneiform?
The first Republican president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This woman became famous for leading French forces during the Hundred Years' War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
This city was once called Constantinople and is now the largest city in Turkey.
What is Istanbul?
This disease caused the Black Death, which devastated Europe, Asia, and North Africa in the 1300s.
What is the bubonic plague? (black death)
This Babylonian king created one of the ancient world's most famous written law codes.
Who is Hammurabi?
This 1803 purchase from France approximately doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before eventually becoming president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This empire controlled Constantinople for centuries after conquering it in 1453.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The invention associated with Johannes Gutenberg helped books and ideas spread much faster through Europe.
What is the printing press?