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in 1912, the Republic of China was established with Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president, marking an end to this dynasty and the end of over 2,000 years of imperial rule in China
What is the Qing dynasty?
This battle was the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War. with the help of the French, in 1781, the Americans managed to defeat the British, securing American independence
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This monarch was the king of France during the start of the French Revolution in 1789. He would later be executed by French revolutionaries in 1792.
Who is King Louis XVI?
The Inca Empire was the largest and most powerful pre-Columbian empire in the Americas, flourishing in South America from the early 1400s until the Spanish conquest in the 1530s. This city, its capital, was a monument to its prestige.
What is Cusco?
This war was a prolonged and devastating conflict fought between the two most powerful city-states of ancient Greece, being Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This Japanese emperor, reigning from 1867-1912, oversaw Japan's transformation from a feudal society into a modern industrial powerhouse, while also restoring and centralizing imperial rule by removing the Tokugawa shogunate.
Who is Emperor Meiji (Meiji Tennō)?
What is the Battle of Midway?
This revolution was a key turning point in Russia. Within the year 1917, it led to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government and the rise of the Soviet Union under communist rule.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution/October Revolution?
This papal bull and treaty established the boundaries of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, leading to the cession of Brazil to Portugal and the rest of the New World to Spain.
What is The Treaty of Tordesillas?
This ruler was the last of the Ptolemaic line to rule over the Kingdom of Egypt, dying via poison after the suicide of her lover, Mark Antony, after the battle of Actium.
This revolutionary helped lead the Philippines against both the Spanish and American forces during the Philippine Revolution and later the Philippine-American War from 1896-1902.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
This spiritual movement, during the late 19th century, was a peaceful religious response by Native Americans in response to cultural destruction, loss of land, and U.S. government oppression.
What was the Ghost Dance?
Born in 1571, this person was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist best known for his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion, which was a breakthrough that transformed our understanding of the solar system and laid the foundation of modern astronomy.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
In 1822, facing pressure from both Brazilians and the Portuguese government, this person declared "Independência ou morte!" ("Independence or death!"), subsequently declaring independence from Portugal and becoming the first emperor of Brazil.
Who is Dom Pedro I?
During the Second Punic War (219-201 BC), Scipio Africanus took the fight to North Africa, forcing Hannibal to return from Italy to defend Carthage. These two generals would ultimately clash in this battle, resulting in a Roman victory over the Carthaginians.
What is the Battle of Zama?
This battle, from March 13 to May 7, 1954, was a decisive military engagement between the French colonial forces and the Viet Minh. It marked the end of French colonial rule in Indochina and paved the way for the division of Vietnam.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
In the early 19th century, the United States went to war with this/these nation(s) in the North African Ottoman provinces of Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, which marked the first major overseas military conflict, and helped establish the U.S. navy.
What are the Barbary States?
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Known as the largest and deadliest conflict in South American history. This nation launched a war, from 1864 to 1870, against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in an effort to gain access to the sea and challenge Brazil's, as well as Argentina's, dominance.
What is Paraguay? What is the Paraguayan War (War of the Triple Alliance)?
Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and this person would go on to form the First Triumvirate (60 BC) in Rome, a political alliance that would allow them to dominate Roman politics and further their own goals.
Who is Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus/Pompey the Great?
Proclaiming himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ, this rebel leader would launch the Taiping Rebellion from 1850 to 1864 against the ruling Qing dynasty, causing one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
Who is Hong Xiuquan?
This minor, bloodless, border dispute over the San Juan Islands, located between Vancouver Island and the mainland United States, saw the U.S. and Britain claim ownership due to ambiguous wording in the Oregon Treaty of 1846. In 1859, this dispute was kicked off due to the dispute between an American settler named Lars Larsen and a British employee of the Hudson's Bay Company.
What is the Pig War?
In the late 1500s, England was trying to tighten control over Ireland. around 1593 tension escalated over land, power, and religious differences, causing the Irish to rise up under the leadership of Hugh O'Neill. He would launch this nine year long conflict, from 1593 to 1603, in an attempt to fight back against English dominance in Ireland.
What is Tyrone's Rebellion?
In 1970, Chile elected Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically elected Marxist president. The U.S. government, under Nixon, saw Allende as a threat to U.S. interests and so approved of CIA-supported covert operations to destabilize Allende's government. This led the Chilean military, supported by the CIA, to launch a coup d'état and install this notoriously brutal dictator.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
The most famous battle Alexander the Great won against the Persians, in 331 B.C. he managed to beat back a numerically superior Persian army led by Darius III, causing the latter to flee, and Alexander took control of the Persian heartlands.
What is the Battle of Gaugamela?