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Which battle is generally considered the turning point of the American Revolution?
what is Saratoga, or what is the Battle of Saratoga?
The legendary knight whose accidental imbibing of a love potion caused him to conduct an affair the wife of his uncle, King Mark.
Who is Sir Tristan or Sir Tristram
This river valley civilization developed cuneiform, one of the world’s earliest writing systems
What is Sumer?
This Macedonian formation, consisting of long spears called sarissas, revolutionized ancient infantry combat.
What is the phalanx?
This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This 1819 agreement specified the borders between the US and Spanish possessions in North America.
what is the Adams-Onís Treaty? Transcontinental Treaty, the Spanish cession, or Florida Treaty are also acceptable
In Mississippi River Valley Voodoo, this god opened up communication with the other deities.
Who is Papa Lébat or Liba
This battle in 490 BCE saw Athenian hoplites defeat a larger Persian force.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
This type of castle feature—a deep, water-filled trench—helped defend against siege engines.
What is a moat?
This 1831 enslaved preacher led the most famous slave rebellion in Virginia.
Who is Nat Turner?
This document advocating for US acquisition of Cuba, turned into a major embarrassment for the Pierce administration after it was published in European and American newspapers.
what is the Ostend Manifesto? Ostend Circular is also acceptable
He was the author of the enormously popular twelfth-century work, Historia Regum Britanniae or History of the Kings of Britain.
Who is Geoffrey of Monmouth
This structure in Babylon was described as a massive stepped tower dedicated to the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
This French general introduced mass conscription and mobile warfare during the Revolutionary era.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This 1803 event doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Who was the celebrity prosecutor and who was the celebrity defense counsel in the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial?
Who was William Jennings Bryan, and who was Clarence Darrow?
The birth name of this South Carolina conjuror was Stephany Robinson.
Who is Dr. Buzzard
This pharaoh tried to impose monotheism by worshipping the Aten.
Who is Akhenaten?
This 1704 battle, a key victory in the War of the Spanish Succession, helped establish Britain as a major European powers
What is the Battle of Blenheim?
This compromise temporarily defused the 1850s sectional crisis by admitting California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who created the religious movement associated the Native American leader Tecumseh?
who is Tenskatwata? “Shawnee prophet” is also acceptable
This fifteenth-century author produced the standard telling of the Arthurian legends.
Who is Sir Thomas Mallory
This river, along with the Euphrates, formed the cradle of early Mesopotamian civilization.
What is the Tigris River?
This Prussian strategist wrote On War, stressing the “fog” and “friction” of conflict.
Who is Carl von Clausewitz?
This radical Quaker dwarf abolitionist, famous for dramatic protests like spilling fake blood in meeting houses, published a 1738 anti-slavery tract condemning fellow Quakers for owning slaves.
Who is Benjamin Lay?