Classical Civilizations
Key factors in thriving early civilization the Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile were all what?
What are rivers.
What war was fought between the Allies - England, France and Russia and the Central Powers of Austria-Hungary, Germany along side the Ottoman Empire?
What is World War 1
Christopher Columbus was looking for a route westward for trade. Where did he sail to? Hint: It was not America.
What is the West Indies.
Political Parties formed early on in American Government. What founding father was famous for advising against this? HINT: He was a president.
Who is George Washington.
What automobile company owner streamlined the assembly line by combining conveyor belts and assembly line workers to produce the Model T automobile.
Who is Henry Ford.
Athens practiced an early form of what by allowing free, landholding men to participate.
What is Democracy.
The Great _____ of the 1930s destabilized the global economy and led to the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy.
What is the Great Depression.
The Mississippi River Region including what is now New Orleans LA was claimed originally by what European Nation?
What is France.
What war was fought between the Northern States and the Confederate States from 1861-1865.
What is The Civil War.
Ford's car was affordable which lead to what becoming the main mode of transportation?
What are cars.
The Peloponnesian War was fought between Athens and who? Clue "WE ARE ______" Is a popular chant.
What is Sparta.
With the rise of fascism came the second what? Countries like Germany, Italy and Japan fought on the same side.
What is World War 2
How many colonies were originally on the East Coast that would later become America?
What is 13.
What county in Missouri was the only county to succeed during the Civil War becoming its own kingdom.
What is Callaway County (The Kingdom of Callaway).
Who launched the Sputnik satellite into Earth's orbit in 1957?
Who is the Soviet Union.
The Iliad is an epic poem written by who?
The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union with the threat of nuclear war is referred to as what?
Tensions between the colonies and Great Britain eventually lead to what war?
what is The American Revolution.
__________ Laws a segregation following Reconstruction barred Black Americans from public education and voting rights.
What is Jim Crow Laws.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were the founders of _____ computers released their first computer.
What is Apple.
Caesar was made what country an empire that had a sophisticated legal code and a well trained military.
What is Rome.
What famous world leader from World War 2 gave his famous Iron Curtain speech in Fulton Missouri.
Who is Winston Churchill.
France sold a large amount of owned territory to America. This was land that Lewis and Clark would later explore (not John and Clark). What was this purchase called?
What is The Louisiana Purchase.
This was the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines. Its start and end are widely debated by scholars, but the period generally spanned from about 1760 to 1840.
What is the Industrial Revolution.
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on what city in Japan during WW2 causing toxic amounts of radiation and electronic shutdowns.
What is Hiroshima