Plagues
Space Missions
Feminists
African-American Civil Rights Leaders
Chinese Dynasties
100

Caused by HIV. Triggered a pandemic in 1981; originated in monkeys. Almost fatal STD.

AIDS

100

First moon landing and moon walk. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Apollo 11

100

Advocated for dress reform so women could wear reasonable clothes. Pants named Bloomers were named after her. 

Amelia Bloomer

100

Made "I Had a Dream Speech". James Earl Ray assassination him at Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

Martin Luther King Jr.

100

Last dynasty to rule imperial China. (1644-1911) Had the banner system and had a lot of rebellions such as the Taiping Rebellion, Revolt of the Three Feudatories, and the Box Rebellion. 

Quing Dynasty

200

In the mid-14th century, Mongol forces introduced it to Europe. It killed roughly half of the country's populations. 


Hint: rats

The Black Death

200
first human and first Woman into space respectively. Two of them. One completed one orbit around the Earth and the other was largely uneventful. 

Vostok 1 and Vostok 6

200

Author of "The Color Purple" in 1982. Contrasted with Virginia Woolf and Phyllis Wheatly. Arrested in March of 2003 for protesting the Iraq war by stating it would unfairly punish Iraq women and children.

Alice Walker

200

Arrested for not giving up her bus seat and move to the back of the bus.

Rosa Parks

200

First Chinese Dynasty from written records. (1600-1046 BC) During the Bronze Age of Chinese civilization. Found near the modern city of Anyang.

Shang Dynasty
300

Killed up to 100 million people; 1918-1920. Caused by H1N1 strain of influenza. Has a misleading name because one country did not censor information about it.

The Spanish Flu

300

First artificial satellite that kicked off the space race. First one was originally meant to carry scientific instruments to study deceleration because of atmospheric drag. The second carried a dog named Laika.

Sputnik 1 & 2

300

For an article for Show Magazine in 1963, she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny. Founded and edited Ms. Magazine. Was a prominent advocate for abortion rights and wrote "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" in 1983. "A women without a man is like a fish without a bicycle".

Gloria Steinem

300

Black Muslim civil rights activist whom changed his name after converting to the Nation of Islam. "The Ballot or the Bullet". Assassinated while giving a speech

Malcolm X

300

Gold age of Chinese civilization (206 BC- 220 AD). Founded by Liu Bang, who reunited China and put the capital at Chang'an. Emporer Wu was the greatest out of the 7 Emporers by expanding China's frontiers.

Han Dynasty
400

Infectious fever carried by lice. Spread across Europe in the late 1400's. Killed many victims of the Holocaust including Anne Frank. Mostly with military conflicts.

Typhus

400

Ruptured #2 oxygen tank. was supposed to land in the fra mauro region of the moon. All 3 astronauts returned to Earth safely. 

Apollo 13

400

An author who wrote "Mrs, Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" but her essay "A Room of One's Own" is her most important. Created Judith Shakespeare; Shakespeare's fake sister. Couldn't be like her brother because of her lack of education.

Virginia Woolf

400

Leader of Pan-African Movement and the Black Power Movement. Changed his name and moved to Guinea. 

Stokely Carmichael

400

Know for its devotion to cultural activities instead of war fair and establishing new Neo-Confucianism. discovered gun powder and the Compass. Scholarly elitism instead of military elitism. Gave parts of it to the North Liao Dynasty to get peace.

Song Dynasty

500

Happened in 430 BC during the Pelopennesian War. Went from Athens to Ethiopia and killed 25% of the population.

The Great Plague of Athens

500

Known as the Challenger and Columbia. Exploded because of issues with the rocket boosters. Challenger had a teacher on board. Both had 7 crew.

STS-51-L and STS-107

500

Known for writing "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". She argued women are inherently equal to men but appear unequal because they do not have the same access to education. Daughter is Mary Shelly who wrote "Frankenstein"

Mary Wollstone Craft

500

Early investigative journalist who helped found the NAACP. Investigated lynching in 1890s and documented her research in pamphlets such as "Southern Horrors" and "The Red Record".

Ida B. Wells

500

(184-280 AD) Enormous cultural impact because of the romance novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After the Han Dynasty split up which was brought back together briefly and then split back up for the next 4 centuries.

Period of the Three Kingdoms


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