American History
Year the Declaration of Independence was signed
1776
An ancient civilization built the Great Pyramid of Giza
The Ancient Egyptians
English king famously broke away from the Catholic Church and had six wives
King Henry VIII
Colosseum was built by (blank) powerful empire
The Roman Empire
This 16th-century Italian artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the marble statue of David
Michelangelo
First president to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
13th-century explorer spent nearly 24 years traveling through Asia and China
Marco Polo
A massive structure was built in 1961 to divide a major German city during the Cold War and was torn down in 1989
Berlin Wall
Famous ancient Greek epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey
Homer
Beginning in the 1920s, this cultural movement marked a massive surge of Black artistic, musical, and literary expression centered in an uptown Manhattan neighborhood
the Harlem Renaissance
First woman elected to U.S. Congress
Jeannette Rankin
Deadly pandemic swept through Europe in the mid-14th century
The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
French military heroine and saint who led troops during the Hundred Years' War before being burned at the stake
Joan of Arc
Mesopotamian writing system pressed into clay tablets using a wedge-shaped tool
Cuneiform
Featuring hieroglyphic and Greek scripts, this ancient stone slab discovered in 1799 was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
Rosetta Stone
Between 1820-1824 this country sent the most immigrants to the United States
Ireland
Hitler's Commander in Chief and Leader of the Lufwaffe during World War II
Hermann Goring
First in Europe to grant women the right to vote in 1906, while it was still an autonomous Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire
Finland
This major Mesoamerican civilization built the sprawling, stepped pyramid city of Chichén Itzá
Maya
This 1949 dystopian novel introduced readers to the omnipresent figure of Big Brother, the Ministry of Truth, and the dread of Room 101
(Extra 100 points if you know the author!)
1984 (by George Orwell)
U.S. President in office when the word "teenager" first appeared in print
Franklin D. Roosevelt (In 1941)
Last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt before it became a Roman province
Cleopatra VII
Primary economic and social system of Western Europe during the early and high Middle Ages, characterized by hierarchical land tenure, obligations between lords and vassals, and serfdom
Feudalism
This fifth Roman Emperor is famously—and inaccurately—said to have played the fiddle while a massive fire destroyed much of Rome in 64 CE
Nero
Premiering in 1941, this Orson Welles masterpiece revolutionized cinematography and narrative structure through the life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane
Citizen Kane