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100
These ancient people were seen as the source of the best science & wisdom for centuries.
Who are the Greeks?
100
This great European kingdom was consumed by revolutionary fervor in 1789.
What is France?
100
The Royal Navy successfully drove Napoleon out of this country after defeating the French fleet in the Nile River.
What is Egypt?
100
This island kingdom built the greatest fleet on Earth, taking control of global trade by the 1800s with businesses and colonies across every continent.
What is Great Britain? (or England, or United Kingdom)
100
This legendary French general and emperor dominated Europe for nearly 15 years before his final defeat at Waterloo.
Who is Napoleon (Bonaparte)?
200
This new philosophy based on the equal rights of all people would inspire many new republics in the Americas, particularly our own.
What is liberalism?
200
Large numbers of mercenaries revolted in 1857 against British rule in this valuable Asian colony.
What is India?
200
Napoleon's failed invasion of this country led to the collapse of his army and eventual defeat by the coalition.
What is Russia?
200
This new type of building fueled unprecedented economic growth during the 1800s, producing vast quantities of products cheaper than ever before.
What is a factory?
200
This king of France was executed by guillotine in 1792 by the revolutionary government.
Who is King Louis XVI?
300
This crucial scientific theory was popularly defined by Sir Isaac Newton in his 1687 book Principia Mathematica.
What is gravity?
300
Numerous Latin American colonies rose up against this European country when Napoleon replaced its king with his brother in 1808.
What is Spain?
300
The British humiliated this great ancient empire by crushing their navy after they attempted to block British merchants from selling addictive opium into their ports.
What is China? (or the Qing Empire)
300
This energy-rich mineral fueled the growing industrial economy of the 18th-19th centuries.
What is coal?
300
This Italian astronomer helped developed modern telescopes and theories of the solar system.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
This controversial new theory - that the Earth revolved around the sun - got scientists like Copernicus and Galileo arrested.
What is heliocentrism?
400
This powerful central European kingdom was consumed by revolutions by its diverse ethnic and social classes during 1848.
What is Austria? (or Austria-Hungary)
400
The civil war in this country in the 1640s led to the beheading of King Charles I and (temporary) abolition of the centuries-old monarchy.
What is England?
400
This was the nickname for the global trade network which developed in the 17th century to connect Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
400
This English general became military dictator (or "Lord Protector") shortly after the abolition of the monarchy in 1649.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
500
This famous document, adopted by the French National Assembly in 1789, declared the equality of all mankind and guaranteed fundamental human rights to all.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man (and of the Citizen)?
500
Enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue rose up to establish this first free black republic in the Americas.
What is Haiti?
500
This naval battle became a legendary event in British history, as the Royal Navy saved Britain from French invasion and proved its dominance at sea.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
500
This new financial innovation allowed people to invest in small portions of a company without needing the vast riches to buy an entire business at once.
What is stock?
500
This extremely conservative Austrian politician led its government for nearly 40 years, including the end of the Napoleonic wars, until he was deposed by revolutionaries in 1848.
Who is Klemens von Metternich?