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She was the first wife of the current king of the United Kingdom

What is Diana Princess of Wales

100

This Native American was a Powhatan woman who married Jamestown colonist and tobacco farmer John Rolfe. 

Who is Pocahantas?

100

California

What is Sacramento?

100

This individual founded the Achaemenid Empire in Persia (modern Iran)

Who is Cyrus the Great?

100

Mining rights for this substance led to a conflict between the Duke of Ferrara and Pope Sixtus IV in a 15th-century conflict named for it. France's acquisitions from the Albigensian Crusade led to the establishment of a crown tax named the gabelle on this substance. The Song dynasty perfected large, artificial evaporation ponds for extracting this substance. The land word salary may be derived from, for the point, what mineral used to preserve food?

What is salt?

200

This person was the Queen of France and wife of King Louis the Sixteenth who was executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution.


Who is Marie Antoinette

200

This movement ignited in Montgomery, Alabama when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger.

What is the civil rights movement?

200

Texas

What is Austin?

200

In Greek myth, this inventor was imprisoned by King Minos, who ordered Daedalus to build a labyrinth for the minotaur.

Who is Daedalus?

200

During this period, the heretical sect of self-whipping acolytes known as the "Flagellants" peaked in popularity. One theory states this period began after Hanseatic contacts in the fur tradetravel led to the Republic of Novgorod. Under Casimir the Great, the effects of this period were lessened in Poland, because the Jewish community spread hygienic practices like handwashing. Up to half of Europe's population was killed by, for the point, what 14th century blight?

What is the black death, or the Plague?

300

This ship was carrying civilian passenagers when it was sunk by a German U Boat in 1915.

What is the RMS Lisutania

300

This National Park became a protected area of California due in part to efforts led by naturalist John Muir. 

What is Yosemite Park?

300
Ohio

What is Columbus

300

This war was fought between ancient Greece’s two most powerful city-states: Athens and Sparta. Prior to 431BC, tensions between the Delian League of city-states, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, had seemingly been resolved by the Thirty Years’ Treaty. However, open war was triggered by Sparta-allied Thebes’ attack on Athens-allied Plataea. 

What is Peloponnesian War?

300

Using the numeri auxiliary system, this general introduced Eastern mounted archers and cataphracts into the Legion. This proponent of "Strength through Peace" rebuilt the Pantheon following its partial destruction during a 114 fire. This man accepted Antoninus Pius as his successor on the condition that he appoint Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his heirs.

Who is Hadrian?

400

This illuminated manuscript was compiled around 800 CE and is now on display at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

What is the Book of Kells?

400

Name the fraternal society, whose detractors formed the first third party in American politics, the Anti-Masonic Party. 

What is The Freemasons?

400

Nebraska

What is Lincoln?

400

This group is responsible for the 455 sack of Rome that ultimately led to the Western Roman Empire’s fifth-century collapse.

Who are the Vandals?

400

This fifteenth-century Portuguese prince, often credited with jumpstarting the Age of Exploration whose forces met disaster against Marinid sultan Salah ibn Salah at the 1437 Battle of Tangiers, after which this man's brother, Ferdinand, was given as a hostage.  

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

500

This person was a member of the Non-aligned Movement who led Yugoslavia in various posts from 1945 to 1980 after leading the Partisans during World War Two.

Who is Josip Broz Tito

500

This battle took place during the War of 1812 and ended with Oliver Hazard Perry’s famous claim that “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” 

What is the battle of lake eerie

500

Wyoming

What is Cheyenne?

500

This battle, led by Miltiades, the vastly-outnumbered Athenians repelled Persian king Darius I’s invasion of Greece at the plains of Marathon. The Spartans, to whom Athens appealed for help against the invaders, were delayed by a religious festival, so the Athenians had only 1,000 men from Plataea to bolster their ranks.

What is the battle lof Marathon?
500

Shortly before this operation, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud declared Leopold III a "traitor" for surrendering after the Battle of the Lys. The Ministry of Shipping scoured the River Thames for private naval vessels to lease, later becoming known as the "Little Ships of" this operation.  

What is Dunkirk?

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