Capitals of the World
This city, known as the "City of Light," is home to the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum.
What is Paris?
Julius Caesar and Augustus were pivotal leaders in the rise of this massive Mediterranean empire.
What is the Roman Empire
This large, ice-covered island is technically part of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest island in the world that is not a continent.
What is Greenland?
In 1215, King John of England signed this historic document, limiting the power of the monarchy for the first time.
What is the Magna Carta?
This massive mountain range contains the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
Buckingham Palace and Big Ben are famous landmarks in this historic capital city.
What is London?
Genghis Khan united nomadic tribes to build this empire, which became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Spain and Portugal make up this southwestern European peninsula.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
Germany's 1939 invasion of this neighboring country directly triggered the start of World War II in Europe.
What is Poland?
This man-made waterway opened in Egypt in 1869, connecting the Mediterranean Sea directly to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
This capital city sits on the Grand Canal and was historically known as Constantinople.
What is Ankara?
Centered in modern-day Turkey, this empire conquered Constantinople in 1453 and lasted until the end of World War I.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This Mediterranean island nation, home to Mount Etna, sits just off the "toe" of Italy's boot.
What is Italy?
This internal conflict from 1789 to 1799 led to the execution of King Louis XVI and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is the French Revolution?
This mountain range runs like a spine down the entire western coast of South America.
What are the Andes?
This European capital city is famous for its historic Grand-Place and serves as the administrative heart of the European Union.
What is Brussels?
This South American empire used an extensive network of roads and a system of knotted strings called quipus to manage its Andes mountains territory.
What is the Inca Empire?
This large island nation off the southeast coast of Africa is famous for its unique wildlife, including most of the world's wild lemurs.
What is Madagascar?
In 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in this Bosnian city ignited the chain of events that started World War I.
What isi Sarajevo?
Opened in 1914, this 50-mile artificial waterway drastically shortened shipping times between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
Located on the Potomac River, this city was specifically designed by French-born engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant.
What is Washington DC
This European empire, ruled by the Habsburg dynasty, was famously described by King Charles V as "the empire on which the sun never sets."
What is the Spanish Empire?
This peninsula, shared by North and South nations, is divided roughly along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean Peninsula?
Triggered by a tea monopoly, this 1773 political protest in Massachusetts saw colonists dump an entire shipment of British East India Company tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston tea party?
This European mountain range stretches across eight countries, including Switzerland, France, and Austria.
What are the Alps?