Potent Potables
This is one of the fruits brought into the Americas from Afro-Eurasia. This fruit is essential for creating the liquid in Christian Communion.
What are grapes
This conqueror's birth name, Temujin, is not what he is most known by.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Disease spread in the America during the Columbian Exchange is responsible for mass death, the biggest culprit being this.
What is smallpox?
The Japanese during WWII implemented of policy of its armed forces to procure their own sustenance from areas they conquered; after Japan begins to retreat post 1942 it leads to most Japanese soldiers dying through these means.
What is starvation/malnutrition?
This new world food became one of the currencies of the Aztecs and a favorite food of Agustus Gloop.
What is chocolate?
This crop from modern Peru was initially thought of as a lesser food source because of its look. It eventually became a food staple around the world and is even used to make vodka.
What are potatoes?
This famous Muslim leader was the rival of the Christian leader Richard the Lionheart during the Crusades. His real name is Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub.
Who is Saladin?
This region of the world suffered the highest level of death and destruction by the Mongol Invasion. It is estimated that 10 to 15 million people were slaughtered in only a 2-year period.
What is Central Asia?
One of the major Russian foreign policy goals for the last 1000 years has been to gain ports in this body of water to allow them access to the markets of the Mediterranean and other oceans.
What is the Black Sea?
This currency of the Weimar Republic became worthless due to massive inflation and is a synonym for the most famous Wahlberg brother.
What is a Mark?
This corporation from the United Kingdom is responsible establishing a foothold for colonialism in South Asia, it was initially selling a hop forward beer in South Asia.
Who is the British East India Company?
This famous British leader during WWII was known as a "bulldog".
Who is Winston Churchill?
It is estimated that this Balkan nation state suffered the greatest percentage of casualties during WWI. Estimated to have 1 in 5 people killed.
What is Serbia?
The United States facilitated the creation of a man-made water way in the early 20th century in this country and only allowed for that country to control the waterway about 45 years ago.
What is Panama?
Pirates are often romanticized but it is a fact that a sizable majority of pirates during the golden age of piracy (15th to 18th centuries) dealt in this horrific business.
What is the slave trade?
Before being overtaken by whisky and beer, this alcoholic beverage was incredibly popular in British Colonial America due to the abundance of apples.
What is cider?
The second largest city in Afghanistan is Kandahar, which comes from the word "Iskandar" Which is named for a world conqueror from Ancient Greece who liked to name cities after himself all over the middle east.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The largest casualties in world conflicts have been WWII and WWI. The third largest amount of casualties happened in this countries civil war.
What is China? (Taiping rebellion)
Initially, European explorers were looking for a route to Asia by sailing west. They instead found the Carribean and established the first European city in the Americas here.
What is Santo Domingo DR?
This West African leader fulfilled the hajj in the 14th century and in the process cause a massive spike of inflation during his pilgrimage.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The consensus among historians is that the first alcoholic beverage was likely mead; a wine not made from grapes but from this animal product and was most popular in the 1100-1300 period in Northern Europe.
What is honey?
This city that lies in both Asia and Europe has also been known as Byzantium and Constantinople.
What is Istanbul?
South Africa, known as Cape Colony, experienced a tremendous amount of violence when the British took over in the 19th century from these other European Settlers.
Who are the Dutch?
The first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 was held in this Soviet city and was an event designed to demonstrate Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, however, an American, Van Cliburn, won the whole thing.
What is Moscow?
The first price bubble in world history is often attributed to the buying and selling of this flower and its bulbs in 17th century Amsterdam.
What are tulips?