Ancient Civilizations
This ancient wonder was a giant statue built in Rhodes, Greece, honoring the god of the sun.
What is The Colossus of Rhodes?
This document, adopted in 1776, declared the thirteen colonies independent from Britain.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
This global conflict, ending in 1918, was triggered in part by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War I?
This Indian leader used nonviolent civil disobedience to lead his nation to independence from British rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This mountain range forms a natural border between Europe and Asia and contains the highest peak in Europe.
What are the Ural Mountains / Caucasus Mountains?
This river, the longest in the world, was essential to the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile?
The Civil War ended in April 1865 when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at this Virginia courthouse.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The fall of this wall in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War division between East and West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
She refused to give up her bus seat in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a major civil rights boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam, are located in this modern-day country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Julius Caesar crossed this river in 49 BC, triggering a Roman civil war.
What is the Rubicon?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched this series of economic programs to help the US recover from the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
The storming of the Bastille in 1789 became the iconic starting moment of this broader political transformation that reshaped European power structures for decades.
What is the French Revolution?
This Egyptian queen allied with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
Who is Cleopatra?
The Renaissance began in this Italian city-state in the 14th century, famous for its wealthy Medici family.
What is Florence?
This city-state is famous for its warrior culture and for sending 300 soldiers to hold off Persia at Thermopylae.
What is Sparta?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This empire, founded by Genghis Khan in the 13th century, became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
He was the first president of the United States, previously commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
This indigenous American civilization built the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in a lake in present-day Mexico.
Who are the Aztec?
This ancient trade network connected China to the Mediterranean world, carrying silk, spices, and ideas.
What is The Silk Road?
The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted this right to American women.
What is the right to vote (suffrage)?
This 1947 plan provided American economic aid to help rebuild Western European nations after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before becoming his country's first Black president in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, limited the power of the king in this country.
What is England?