Amazing Mothers
This animal was said to have been a mother to Romulus and Remus.
What is a wolf?
Franks vs. Muslim armies, 732 A.D.
What is the Battle of Tours?
Native Americans were first called Indians because Columbus thought he had landed in this Asian country.
What is India?
Attila was their leader.
Who were the Huns?
This epic poem includes being turned into pigs by a witch, traveling to the underworld, and blinding a cyclops.
What is the Odyssey?
She led Lewis and Clark across thousands of miles of rugged terrain... and brought along her brand new baby the whole way!
Who was Sacagewea?
Alexander the Great vs. the Persians, 333 B.C.
What is the Battle of Issus?
The Mayan civilization built this amazing pyramid near modern-day Cancun around 600 A.D.
What is Chichen Itza?
They raided the seacoasts of Europe throughout the Middle Ages.
Who were the Vikings?
The Muslim book of scriptures, revealed to the Prophet Mohammed.
What is the Qur'an (or Koran)?
The Queen Atossa, from this ancient empire, was daughter, wife or mother to five of its emperors.
What is Persia?
Octavian vs. Mark Antony, 31 B.C.
This princess of the Powhatan tribe is said to have saved the life of Captain John Smith, twice!
Who is Pocahontas?
The European Crusaders of the Medieval Ages heard rumors that this destroyer of Islamic kingdoms to the East was a Christian king named Prester John.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This epic poem about an ancient war surprisingly does does not tell the story of the war's most famous conclusion.
What is the Iliad?
When sending their sons out to battle, mothers from this fierce warrior society place would say "Come home with your shield; or else on it."
What is Sparta?
Constantine vs. Maxentius, 312 A.D.
What is the Battle of the Milvian Bridge?
Francisco Pizarro and his forces effectively destroyed this civilization in what is now Peru.
Who were the Incas?
The word "barbarian" comes from this language, because its Hellenic speakers thought other languages all just sounded like "bar-bar-bar-bar."
What is Greek?
This work by the Roman author Virgil tells how Aeneas escaped Troy and his descendants founded Rome.
What is the Aeneid?
Who is Cordelia Gracchus?
William the Conqueror vs King Harold of England, 1066 A.D.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
Their king Montezuma ruled from his capital city of Tenochtitlan, underneath what is now Mexico City.
Who were the Aztecs?
The Chinese tried to cope with barbarians using this fortification.
What is the Great Wall of China?
The first example of literature that has been discovered, from ancient Sumeria.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?