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100

This is the native religion of Japan.

What is Shintoism?

100

Eli Whitney invented this machine.

What is the cotton gin?

100

This Greek Goddess has a sportswear company named after her.

What is Nike?

100

This ancient Latin American civilization is famous for building pyramids, including the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan.

What is the Aztec Civilization?

100

This famous Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Who is Michelangelo?

200

This navigation tool, essential for maritime exploration, was first developed in ancient China during the Han Dynasty.

What is the compass?

200

This 15th-century invention by Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized communication and is considered one of the most important innovations in history.

What is the printing press?

200

What was the oldest city in Mesopotamia?

What is Uruk?

200

This person led the Haitian Revolution.

Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?

200

This ancient Greek structure, built in Athens, is considered a masterpiece of Doric architecture.

What is The Parthenon?

300

This East Asian country is known for its creation of movable type printing during the Goryeo Dynasty in the 13th century, predating Gutenberg's invention.

What is Korea?

300

This British Mathematician led the project to decode the German Enigma during World War 2.

Who is Alan Turing?

300

This Roman dictator is a nickname for President George Washington.

Who was Cincinnatus?

300

This ancient Latin American civilization was part of a Backyardigans episode involving Chichén Itzá.

What is the Maya Civilization?

300

This piece of art housed in the Louvre has its own mailbox to receive love letters.

What is The Mona Lisa?

400

This is known as the last battle of the Korean War.

What is the Battle of Kumsong?

400

This ancient Greek mathematician invented a screw pump for irrigation and is famous for the principle of buoyancy.

Who is Archimedes?

400

This ancient civilization was known for tooth decorations.

Who were the Maya?

400

This Mexican revolutionary started the Mexican Revolution and became president.

Who is Francisco Madero?

400

This art movement, beginning in the late 19th century, focused on capturing light and movement, with artists like Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

What is Impressionism?

500

This book is from 11th-century Japan and is considered to be the first novel.

What is the Tale of Genji?

500

The Chinese Eastern Zhou period is credited for this major farming innovation.

What is the three-Field System?

500

This Ancient Egyptian God is associated with the Nile Crocodiles.

Who is Sobek?

500

During this 1974 Argentinian war, the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance persecuted leftwing political enemies.

What is the Dirty War?

500

This toy company used to make special, more accurate bricks for architects.

What is Lego?

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