Ancient History
This river’s annual flooding made ancient Egyptian agriculture possible.
What is the Nile?
This devastating pandemic wiped out about one-third of Europe’s population in the 14th century.
What was the Black Death?
In 1492, this explorer sailed the Atlantic Ocean under the Spanish flag.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This global conflict began in 1939 after Germany invaded Poland.
What is World War 2?
This ancient code, carved in stone, is one of the earliest known written law systems.
What is the Hammurabi Code?
This war between England and France lasted over 100 years.
This explorer is credited with opening a sea route around Africa to India.
Who was Vasco De Gama?
This 1863 document declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
This wall, built in 1961, became a symbol of the Cold War.
What was the Berlin Wall?
These people developed cuneiform, one of the first writing systems.
Who were the Sumerians?
This document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This international organization was founded in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
This Greek city-state was famous for its military discipline and training.
What was Sparta?
This woman led French troops during the Hundred Years’ War before being executed.
Who was Joan of Arc?
This explorer’s expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in the U.S.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1947 plan provided U.S. financial aid to help rebuild European economies after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This civilization built Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains.
This Italian family were major patrons of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo.
Who were the Medici Family?
This empire conquered much of Central and South America before Spanish arrival.
What was the Aztec Empire?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the world close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?