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Military city-state that competed with Athens.
What is Sparta?
A 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Europe.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis and Allies.
What was WWII?
To rule by the people.
What is democracy?
Religion that has many gods.
What is Hinduism?
Ancient city high in the Andes Mountains.
What is Machu Picchu?
This Japanese daimyo (born Jan. 31, 1543, Okazaki, Japan—died June 1, 1616, Sumpu) was the founder of the last shogunate in Japan.
Who was Tokugawa Leyasu?
A period of radical political and societal change in France from 1789 to 1799, which saw the overthrow of the monarchy and the feudal system, and the rise of new ideas about citizens' rights and the nation.
What was the French Revolution?
A rapid societal, political, or economic transformation, or a successful, large-scale overthrow of an established authority.
What is revolution?
A massive, singular stone, which can be a natural geological formation like a mountain or a man-made structure such as an obelisk or column.
What is a monolith?
The city of romance and fashion.
What is Paris?
She was the queen of England (1558–1603) during a period, often called the Elizabethan Age.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
This was a period of profound economic, social, and technological change, beginning in Britain in the mid-18th century and spreading globally, that transformed agrarian and handicraft economies into industrial and machine-driven ones.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
This marked the shift from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture, leading to the development of villages, cities, and civilization.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Siddharta Gautama a prince in northern in India who became enlightened.
Who was the Buddha?
An ancient city situated along the Euphrates River ruled by King Hammurabi.
What is Babylon?
She was also known as Empress Wu Zetian, was the first and only woman emperor of China
Who was Empress Wu?
This battle in central Greece at the mountain pass of Thermopylae during the Persian Wars was led by Leonidas the Spartan king as they held their own against the Persian king Xerxes I and his vast southward-advancing army.
What was the Battle of Thermopylae?
The belief in one god.
What is monotheism?
The exchange of goods, plants, animals and ideas between the old and new worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
A city founded by Kublai Khan, which served as his first capital and later as the summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty.
What is Xanadu?
He was the mansa (emperor) of the West African empire of Mali from 1307 (or 1312). He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu—but he is best remembered in the Middle East and Europe for the splendour of his pilgrimage to Mecca (1324).
Who was Mansa Musa?
This pivotal 1600 battle in Japan's Sengoku period, was fought by Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army against Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army. This victory paved the way for Ieyasu to become shogun, establishing a two-and-a-half-century shogunate that ended the age of warring states.
What is the Battle of Sekigahara?
This refers to the shared beliefs, customs, arts, social behaviors, and institutions that characterize a particular group of people, passed down through generations.
What is culture?
This country today is where the first human civilization began.
What is Iraq?