Historian
Basics
Basics
When historians don't have much evidence and are trying to learn more, they make this kind of guessing 'thesis' -- a term shared with the sciences.
What is a hypothesis?
This theory supposes a relationship between Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders, although a method of travel has never been proven.
What is the Pacific Theory?
Though the smallest of the three major sections of the Americas, this location was 'central' to the domestication of many important American foods, like the tomato.
What is Mesoamerica?
This relatively poor European kingdom broke away from the Catholic Church because the Pope refused to grant its King yet another divorce.
What is the Kingdom of England?
(What is Great Britain?)
While the American Men's national team isn't that good, the Women's national team in this sport has been one of the top 3 teams every year since 1991, except for 2016.
What is Soccer? (What is Football?)
This term can be thought of as "history before history" if you're poetic, but "history before writing" works too.
What is prehistory?
The wild version of this animal is native to Europe, Asia, and the Americas -- but despite a reputation as man's best friend, it was never domesticated in the Americas.
What is the dog? (What is the wolf; what is canis lupus?)
Though this American continent has plenty of great farmland, the weather here made it too difficult to have huge cities without access to a lot of high quality metal.
What is North America?
This European power was as brutal as any other in the Caribbean, but enjoyed a friendlier relationship with the natives far up north -- unlike their English rivals.
What was the Kingdom of France?
(What was France?)
Finish this sentence: "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's..."
Who is Superman?
Stronger than a hypothesis, certainly not a guess, but not quite a fact -- this kind of supposition has a lot of evidence behind it.
What is a theory?
The so-called "Clovis culture" appears to have existed on both North America and this continent.
What is Europe?
Though this plant -- a kind of grass -- was technically domesticated in North America, it never reached the modern United States during the precolumbian era. Funny, given how "pop"ular it is there.
What is corn?
This "Union" was created by conquest and marriage, bringing Wales, Scotland, and eventually Ireland under one imperial flag.
What is Great Britain? (What is the United Kingdom?; not England, however)
This sport used to be called "America's Game", but it was mostly invented in England and is quite popular in Korea and Japan too.
What is Baseball?
This process of selective breeding develops traits that are useful for humans, and has been used by humans through all of time.
What is domestication?
The Americas were fully settled no later than how many years ago?
What is ten thousand?
Columbus landed in this southern group of islands, inhabited by the Taino tribe, who he quickly enslaved.
What are the Caribbean Islands?
(What are the West Indies?)
Before mercantilism, most European countries were on some version of this economic and political system -- also used in Ancient China.
What is mercantilism?
Two actors in America can never have the exact same name, but these two are pretty close: one played Killmonger in Black Panther, while the other played himself in 1995's Space Jam.
Who are Michael Jordan? (Who are Michael B. Jordan and Michael Jordan?)
What is a myth? (What is a legend?)
This animal was first domesticated in the Mongolian Steppes, but many Native Americans recognized it in old legends of their peoples.
What is the horse?
Though they never got very far in America, the Vikings did have settlements in this large Northeastern island 400 years before Christopher Columbus.
What is Greenland?
This European country in the Iberian peninsula was not united until the year 1492.
What is the Kingdom of Spain?
(What is Spain?)
You can fight like a Krogan,
You can run like a leopard,
But you'll never be better than this military space hero, star of the blockbuster video game series Mass Effect.
Who is Commander Shepard?