U.S. History
In this event leading up to the Revolution, colonists disguised as Mohawk Native Americans protested British taxation by throwing a certain British good into Boston Harbor.
Boston Tea Party
This Ancient Greek city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy. Philosophers such as Plato and Socrates came from this place and the Parthenon is located here.
Athens
This French emperor's loss at Waterloo led to him surrendering the crown and getting exiled.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This ship sunk in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg, making it one of the deadliest peacetime disasters in history.
Titanic
This 2018 Broadway musical detailed the life of a US founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury, and writer of the Federalist papers.
Hamilton
This Civil Rights leader organized many non-violent protests such as the March on Washington and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was assassinated in Memphis after giving a speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This Egyptian pharaoh was the youngest to ascend the throne at 9 years old. His reign lasted only 10 years when he died at 19. His tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter, full of treasures and artifacts.
This ruler of the Mali empire was believed to be the richest person ever. He inflated Africa's economy because he gave away so much gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mansa Musa
After serving in the Korean War, this astronaut joined NASA, where he later commanded the Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 missions. He is best known for being the first person to set foot on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Jimi Hendrix and The Who, among many others, performed at this 1969 music festival which emphasized peace, relating to the growing counterculture movement and movement against the Vietnam War.
Woodstock Festival
This Civil War battle was the deadliest of the whole war and resulted in a Union victory, turning the tide of the war and ending Robert E Lee's northern campaign. Abraham Lincoln gave a famous speech after this battle.
Battle of Gettysburg
This artifact was created by the Egyptians which helped translate hieroglyphics into Greek. It was discovered by the French in 1799 during a military campaign in Egypt.
Rosetta Stone
This Iron Chancellor led the unification of Germany through wars and his realpolitik political strategy.
Otto von Bismarck
The eruption of this volcano resulted in the burying of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash. It preserved the cities for over 1,700 years and archaeologists have been able to learn more about Rome due to this disaster.
Mount Vesuvius
The Strategic Defense Initiative, a laser-based missile defense system proposed during the Cold War, was given this movie franchise nickname by the press because of its futuristic, unfeasible technology.
Star Wars
This robber baron founded the Standard Oil Company, which was the first major monopoly in America. He used some of his wealth to found schools like the University of Chicago and his fortune is valued at $15 billion today.
John D. Rockefeller
This Mesopotamian city was known for their Hanging Gardens, one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as their work in preserving the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest surviving works of literature.
Babylon
This 1648 treaty ended the 30 Years' War and guaranteed religious freedom for Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists and established the principle of state sovereignty.
Peace of Westphalia
This 1917 Bolshevik coup, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian government and established the a communist regime.
October Revolution
In 2011, this famous wrestler-turned-actor would be one of the first people to announce the assassination of Osama bin Laden, to the public after winning the WWE championship.
John Cena
During this World War II battle, U.S. General George Patton commanded a fake army, including inflatable tanks as a decoy and dummy landing crafts, to distract the Germans from the real army's attack.
Battle of Normandy
This Roman emperor was rumored to play the fiddle as Rome burned during the Great Fire of 64 AD and ended the Boudica Rebellion. He was known for his cruelty and tyranny.
Nero
This Chinese rebellion, which was supported by the Empress Dowager Cixi, resisted foreign and Christian influences. It needed to be put down by an 8-nation alliance
Boxer Rebellion
This Japan coup overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate, restoring a new emperor, ending feudalism, and starting a new era of industrialization.
Meiji Restoration
In 1932, Australia fought a "war" against this animal, because they were destroying farmers' crops during the already difficult Great Depression. The military tactics were ineffective and the animal ended up "winning" the war.
Emus