Feudalism and the Black Death
Renaissance and Reformation
Movies, Music, Otherwise
The Enlightenment and SciRev
Better Red than Dead
French Revolution
Industrial Revolution and New Social Systems
The Wars
Random
100
The bottom of the feudal pyramid; legally tied to the land that they live on (which they don't own, obviously)
SERFS
100
Sculptor and painter; author of such works as The Pieta and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
MICHELANGELO
100
This overwhelmingly sad movie was set (and shot) in a Massachusetts town by the same name; Casey Affleck stars as a Quincy janitor
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
100
This Catholic scientist studied the motion of planets, and was eventually tried for blasphemy for his heliocentric beliefs.
GALILEO GALILEI
100
The name of the Soviet military.
RED ARMY
100
King at the time of the French Revolution
LOUIS XVI
100
Name a significant industrial city in the Merrimack Valley.
LAWRENCE, HAVERHILL, LOWELL, NASHUA, MANCHESTER, CONCORD
100
Style of warfare fought for the first time in large numbers on the western front of WWI; characterized by slow (or no) progress and high casualties
TRENCH WARFARE
100
City that I studied in during college and grad school; "The Venice of the North"
ST. PETERSBURG
200
Group of religious zealots who hit themselves with whips in order to cleanse both their own sins and those of the community, but really just end up getting gross plague blood everywhere
FLAGELLENTS
200
You could purchase these for cash back in the day before the Reformation; many priests, in particular in Germany, became rich from them
INDUGENCES
200
At the end of "The Next Episode," Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg implore their listeners to regularly carry out this activity.
SMOKE WEED
200
Theorizer of "Natural Rights" of human beings
200
This English soccer team's logo contains a weird bird; more to the point, it's the most successful (in terms of total trophies won) team in the country.
LIVERPOOL
200
The Estate in French Society that pays essentially all of the tax burden, crashing the economy
THIRD ESTATE
200
Marx's term for people in history with capital who have suppressed the working class since the beginning of society.
BOURGEOIS
200
Hitler and the Nazis attempt to take power in Munich, and control all of Bavaria for an eventual pan-German rebellion, in this booze-soaked event
THE BEER HALL PUTSCH
200
Charlotte NC's football/football stadium
BANK OF AMERICA STADIUM
300
The system of honor that governed knightly behavior; formed pragmatically to prevent violence specialists (knights) from carrying out too much local violence
CHIVALRY
300
Author of The Prince, a book encouraging leaders to rule through fear rather than love
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
300
In Chief Keef's song "Three Hunna," Sosa famously pulls up in that Audi, whereas you pull up in THIS.
THAT HONDA
300
Louis XIV says this as a summary of his political philosophy (IN FRENCH - I WILL NOT ACCEPT ENGLISH)
L'ETAT; C'EST MOI
300
In the 1950s, this American congressperson leads "The Second Red Scare" after alleging that the Army and State Department are full of secret communists.
EUGENE McCARTHY
300
Meeting held by the "great powers" of Europe in the aftermath of Napoleon to re-stabilize the continent and re-establish the norm of monarchy
CONGRESS of VIENNA
300
The indigenous language of Ireland; suppressed during English occupation after the famine
GAELIC
300
The process in which Hitler gets the Sudetenland, then Austria, and then begins demanding Danzig, and the western allies just sort of... let him do it, in hope that he won't do it again later
APPEASEMENT
300
Godzilla's flying friend who helps him save the world often
MOTHRA
400
The result of a series of natural disasters, including cold weather and unseasonable rain, that itself results in the Black Death
FAMINE OF 1315
400
These Reformation-era Christians preach nonviolence, communal living, and toleration of other religions - which naturally means everyone else hates them
ANABAPTISTS
400
Luke Skywalker was born on THIS celestial body in the Star Wars series of films.
POLIS MASSA
400
Speaker of the quote "man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest;" also (way more chill) wrote an early Encyclopedia
DIDEROT
400
Taylor Swift leaves THIS item at her ex-boyfriend (likely Jake Gyllenhall)'s house in All Too Well from her album Red
SCARF
400
Island on which Napoleon was born
CORSICA
400
The solution to Hungarian nationalism within Austria-Hungary in which the crown of Hungary is created (and then also given to the king of Austria)
DUAL MONARCHY
400
City in Basque Country bombed during the Spanish Civil War; inspiration for Picasso's painting by the same name
GUERNICA
400
Macbeth sees this implement before him before heading off to (spoiler alert) kill his liege lord.
A DAGGER
500
Western Italian city that, along with Venice, receives the plague first in 1348
GENOA
500
Erasmus comes from here; a northern European kingdom that boasts artists like Vermeer and the Old Masters as the center of the Northern Renaissance
NETHERLANDS / HOLLAND
500
An important Russian ballet made famous by the similarly-named Natalie Portman / Mila Kunis film; features an evil wizard, a kind noble, and a whooooooole lot of birds
SWAN LAKE
500
State that proudly has "The Golden Liberty," an early example of constitutional monarchy
POLAND-LITHUANIA (need both)
500
This character in Stephen King's The Shining writes "REDRUM" on his hotel room's door while his dad gets locked in a pantry and his mom clings on to her sanity
DANNY
500
Title given to Napoleon BEFORE Emperor, which legitimizes his power by comparing his dictatorial rule to the dictatorial rule of Rome
FIRST CONSUL
500
According to Marx, if the proletariat rise up, they will have nothing to lose but this!
THEIR CHAINS!
500
Soviet (and now Russian) name for WWII, specifically WWII on the eastern front
GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (VELIKAYA OTECHESTVENNAYA VOINA)
500
In The Lord of the Rings, this is the realm of Theoden King; warriors from this land charge the orcs in "Return of the King"
ROHAN