US History
He is the only president to have served more than two terms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
These two brothers were said to have been abandoned as babies but nursed by a she-wolf. Later one of the brothers, after killing the other, was said to found the city of Rome.
Remus and Romulus
While this ruler never sat on the English throne, her son, James VI and I, unified Scotland, England, and Ireland under one crown.
Mary Queen of Scots
He may not have been the one to discover nuclear fusion, but this scientist is often credited with its weaponization.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
This period was marked by rapid mechanization and innovation---and resulted in the wide-spread urbanization world-wide.
Industrial Era
Before New York City was called NYC...it was known by this name.
New Amsterdam
This god, known as the deity of war and the sun, was the patron god of the Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan.
Huitzilopochtli
While this Russian ruler originally earned his epithet through brutal conquer, it would later be used to describe how he treated his subjects. This would then be immortalized through a painting about him and his son of the same name.
Ivan the Terrible
This man is credited with proving heliocentrism—that the Earth is not the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The beginning of the middle age is often marked by this historical event.
The fall of the Western Roman Empire
Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s was called this eye-opening phrase.
The Great Awakening
Sekhmet was the goddess of war, plagues, and the daughter of Ra. She was given the epitaph "the eye of Ra" and was often represented as this female animal.
The Lioness
The Yamato dynasty has ruled this country since at least the 6th Century CE.
Japan
Golden records, which permanently record a broad history of human culture, anatomy, and music, were attached to this series of NASA spacecraft.
Voyager
This prehistoric age is marked by significant human development, and is often associated with the fertile crescent.
Neolithic Age
(Or New Stone Age)
The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal that exposed the Regan administrations attempts to covertly continue funding the anti-communist rebel terrorist organization in this country.
Nicaragua
She was the queen who welcomed her husband home from the Trojan war and promptly murdered him as vengeance for the death of their daughter ten years prior.
Clytemnestra
Pharaoh Akhenaten (otherwise known as Amenhotep IV) was called the "Heretic King" of Egypt, as he tried to convert his nation to this type of religion.
Monotheistic
The Ramesseum collection, credited as being one of the earliest medical indexes, originated in this ancient civilization.
Ancient Egypt
This age was characterized by rebellious attitude and enlightenment thinking
The Age of Revolution
The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president.
Nixon
These were Odin's two ravens, known to fly around the world brining him information with names that roughly translated to "mind" and "will."
Huginn and Munin.
All of us want to prolong our lives, and Chinese Emperor Qin Chi Huang was no different; hoping to become immortal, he overdosed on this poison.
Mercury
Though passing away in 1951, this woman's immortalized cell line has helped develop vaccines for polio, AIDS, and HPV.
Henrietta Lacks
Outside influence and interference, though often indirect, highlight this era of Latin American history.
Neo-colonial era.