Inventions
Money Matters
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What's the Big Idea?
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100
These brothers flew an airplane for the first time at Kitty Hawk.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
100
He urged workers of the world to unite and throw off their bourgeoisie oppressors.
Who is Karl Marx?
100
Napoleon met his end at this battle.
What is Waterloo.
100
He wrote Two Treatises of Government to explain his ideas about the natural rights of man.
Who is John Locke?
100
The little general from France that set out to conquer the world.
Who is Napoleon?
200
This invention by Gutenberg revolutionized the world.
What is the printing press?
200
This medieval African king was perhaps the wealthiest man of all time.
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
Hernan Cortes brought an end to this Latin American empire.
What is the Aztec empire?
200
His travels to the Galapagos helped form his ideas about the origins of the species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
The Revolution began when mobs of people stormed this prison.
What is the Bastille?
300
He built a practical light bulb at his Menlo Park laboratory.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
He funded scholarships in his name with the money he acquired in South African diamond mines.
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
300
Sir Francis Drake helped to defeat this as they battled in the English Channel.
What is the Spanish Armada?
300
He believed that interpreting dreams was the secret to understanding oneself.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
He led France during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
400
This invention by Eli Whitney actually increased the demand for slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
400
Florence, Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance in part because of the art funding of this wealthy family.
Who are the Medicis?
400
This British member of parliament helped abolish slavery throughout the British empire.
Who is William Wilberforce?
400
This modern artist used new ideas about perspective to create a style we call Cubism.
Who is Picasso?
400
This French king lost his head during the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
500
He invented a practical steam engine that launched the Industrial Revolution.
Who is James Watt?
500
This British economist argued for markets free from government intervention.
Who is Adam Smith.
500
The American Civil War ended when Lee surrendered to Grant here.
What is Appamattox?
500
This Polish astronomer was the first to challenge the old idea of an earth-centered universe.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
500
This palace outside Paris was the lavish home of Louis XIV and others.
What is Versailles?
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