American History
This 1620 document was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony, signed by 41 male passengers.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This ancient trade route, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to China, was a vital network for cultural and material exchange.
What is the Silk Road?
Originating in 1347, this devastating pandemic wiped out between a third and half of Europe's population.
What is the Black Death?
The year the first iPhone was released?
What is 2007?
What year did Google launch?
What was 1998?
This document, primarily authored by Thomas Jefferson, was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Consisting of 282 laws, this famous Mesopotamian stele is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This cultural rebirth in Europe began in Florence, Italy, in the 14th century.
What is the Renaissance?
This country hosted the 2016 Olympics
Who is Brazil?
This U.S. president won the 2008 election?
Who is Barack Obama?
This famous 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This ancient Mesoamerican empire, known for its complex calendar and stepped pyramids.
Who were the Maya?
On this fateful day in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Theatre of Pompey.
What are the Ides of March?
The U.S. rover Curiosity landed on this planet in August 2012.
What is mars?
This global recession lasted from 2007 to 2009.
What was The Great Recession?
Signed by Abraham Lincoln, this 1863 executive order declared all enslaved people in Confederate territory to be forever free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
In 332 B.C., this legendary Macedonian king founded the city of Alexandria.
Who is Alexander the Great?
In 1912, this famous British passenger liner struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic.
What is the Titanic?
The year the Paris Agreement signed?.
What is 2015?
The name of the Category 5 hurricane that hit New Orleans and its surrounding areas in 2005.
What was Hurricane Katrina?
Delivered on November 19, 1863, this iconic 272-word address begins with "Four score and seven years ago".
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The only survivor of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was built as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Starting in 1618, this monumental conflict began in the Holy Roman Empire and remains one of the most destructive wars in European history.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
This U.S. government department was created in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This planet was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.
What is Pluto?