Geography
Longest river in the world, goes south-to-north.
What is the Nile?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
What is the United Kingdom?
Tombs of Egyptian god-kings.
What are pyramids?
Largest war in human history, 1939-1945, ~80,000,000 dead.
What is World War 2?
Trade tax, placed on exports and imports. Drives up costs but can protect industries if done right.
What is a tariff?
Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Norse Mythology, one of the -isms.
What is Polytheism?
European and Asian landmass, combined.
What is Eurasia?
Indigenous people of the Americas.
What are Native Americans?
Roman language, spawned French, Italian, Spanish and more.
What is Latin?
Egyptian god-kings.
What are pharaohs?
Great War, War to End All Wars, started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed.
What is World War 1?
Government earns revenue [money] to spend. No one likes them but they serve a purpose.
What are taxes?
God the Father
God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
What is the Trinity?
Man-made, U.S.-built, connects Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean, cuts through Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
George III, Thirteen Colonies, Canada, dominant naval power.
What is the British Empire?
Early Middle Ages, people from Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Conquered much of Europe. Christianized over time.
Who are the Vikings?
Religious wars in the Holy Land during the Middle Ages, European Christian vs Arab Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
New York City, September 2001, terrorist attack, War on Terror begins.
What is 9/11?
European Union, united currency.
What is the Euro?
Considered a dirty food by Judaism [Jews] and Islam [Muslims].
What is pork?
Mesopotamia, 'Between the Two Rivers', Cradle of Civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Conquered much of Central America, South America and North America in the 1500s-1800s, leaving behind their language and religion.
What is the Spanish Empire?
Dictator of Rome, stabbed twenty-three times on the floor of the Roman Senate.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Canal, made by the French and British, connects Mediterranean Sea to Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
North vs South, Union vs Confederacy. Bloodiest war in American history.
What is the American Civil War?
I take a risk and start a business. A cornerstone of free enterprise capitalism.
What is an entrepreneur?
These three religions started here, two in Judaea [Israel] and the third in Arabia. Abrahamic religions.
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
Russian mountain range that separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Urals?
Ruled Louisiana before selling to the young United States in 1803.
Who are the French?
Julius Caesar's adoptive son, his nephew, turned the Republic into Empire.
Who is Octavian? / Who is Augustus?
Last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, lover of Julius Caesar, and orchestrated the overthrow of her brother-husband.
Who is Cleopatra?
Called the Seven Years' War in Europe, British vs French. British victory. Lasted nine years in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
Mixed Market is to Socialism as Free Market is to...
What is Capitalism?
Great Schism, 1054, breakaway denomination from the Catholic Church, located in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and others. Patriarchs rather than pope.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy? / What is the Orthodox Church?
This lake in Russia has the most freshwater in the world, nearly 25%.
What is Lake Baikel?
Free trade deal, USA, Mexico, Canada, 1994-2020.
What if NAFTA? [North American Free Trade Agreement]
USSR stands for...
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Dictator of Libya, killed 2011 during Arab Spring, had an all-female bodyguard.
Who is Muammar Gaddafi?
1990-1991 war to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwair.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
Communism is this type of economic market.
What is a Command Market? / What is a Command Economy?
Religion of pre-Islamic Persia [Iran], dominant during the Achaemenid Empire [aka the first Persian Empire].
What is Zoroastrianism?