Medicine
Egyptian doctors wrote medical knowledge on this material made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
This failed 1605 plot aimed to blow up King James I and Parliament.
What is the Gunpowder Plot?
This 1773 protest involved colonists throwing tea into Boston Harbor.
What is Boston Tea Party?
This alliance system included Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy before the war.
What was the Triple Alliance?
This future dictator was wounded in the thigh while fighting at the Somme.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
The Greeks believed illness was caused by an imbalance of these four substances.
What are the four humours?
These early written laws were carved into stone and created in Mesopotamia around 1754 BC.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This author wrote Common Sense, which encouraged independence.
Who was Thomas Paine?
I was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination helped trigger WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This military alliance included Britain, France and Russia before World War I.
What is the Triple Entente?
This German physician identified the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and cholera.
Who was Robert Koch?
This man is the most famous member of the Gunpowder Plot.
Who was Guy Fawkes?
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This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This German plan aimed to defeat France quickly before turning east to Russia.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
WWI soldiers often experienced this psychological condition caused by constant shelling and stress.
What was shell shock?
This Roman physician developed influential ideas about anatomy and the body’s fluids.
Who was Galen?
In Anglo-Saxon England, this trial involved physical pain to prove guilt or innocence.
What is trial by ordeal?
I was the president of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This type of warfare became the defining feature of fighting on the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
This new weapon was used for the first time during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916.
What is the tank?
I am known as the "Lady with the Lamp."
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This Anglo-Saxon system required entire communities to help capture criminals.
What is the tithing system?
I was a Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This treaty officially ended World War I and imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This battle lasted 141 days in 1916 and became a symbol of French determination because of the slogan "They shall not pass."
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This Greek physician is often called "the Father of Medicine."
Who is Hippocrates?
In Anglo-Saxon England, this system required a criminal to pay money to a victim's family instead of receiving physical punishment.
What is wergild?
This battle produced the highest number of casualties of any battle fought during the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
During the entire 141-day Battle of the Somme, British forces advanced only this distance.
What is about five miles (8 kilometres)?
This Egyptian document, over 3,500 years old, contains hundreds of medical treatments and remedies.
What is the Ebers Papyrus?
Germ theory replaced this older explanation that diseases spread through poisonous vapours in the air.
What is the miasma theory?
This prison reformer travelled around Britain inspecting prisons and exposing terrible conditions.
Who was John Howard?
This secret organisation was formed by American colonists to protest British taxation. Although they fought for liberty, historians point out that many members of this organisation did not support equal rights for women, enslaved people or Native Americans.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This German emperor ruled Germany when World War I broke out in 1914.
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
This Russian ruler abdicated in 1917 during the Russian Revolution. This ruler, the German Kaiser and the British king were all first cousins.
Who was Tsar Nicholas II?