Ancient Civilizations
This civilization built the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2600 BCE.
What is Ancient Egypt?
This is the capital city of France.
What is Paris?
This American inventor is credited with developing the light bulb and phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This scientist discovered gravity after observing an apple fall from a tree.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This event in 1776 marked the United States’ declaration of independence from Britain.
What is the signing of the Declaration of Independence?
This Mesoamerican civilization is known for its stepped pyramids and the city of Chichen Itza.
What is the Maya?
This South American country’s capital is Brasília.
What is Brazil?
This Scottish inventor is known for creating the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This 19th-century scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This 1789 uprising in France began with the storming of the Bastille prison.
What is the French Revolution?
This civilization, located in modern-day Iraq, is credited with creating one of the earliest writing systems, cuneiform.
What is Sumer (or Mesopotamia)?
This Asian capital, formerly known as Peking, hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics.
What is Beijing?
This Italian inventor pioneered long-distance radio transmission and is credited with developing the radio.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
This 1928 discovery by Alexander Fleming revolutionized medicine by introducing the first antibiotic.
What is penicillin?
This 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy was a turning point in World War II.
What is D-Day?
This ancient civilization’s capital city of Mohenjo-Daro featured advanced urban planning, including a sophisticated drainage system.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This African capital, named after a U.S. president, is the largest city in Liberia.
What is Monrovia?
This 15th-century German inventor revolutionized printing with the movable type printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This 1953 breakthrough by Watson and Crick described the double-helix structure of this molecule, key to genetics.
What is DNA?
This 1215 event in England saw King John sign a document limiting royal power, a cornerstone of constitutional law.
What is the signing of the Magna Carta?
This lesser-known civilization, flourishing around 1600 BCE in modern-day Turkey, is credited with early use of iron and a hieroglyphic script deciphered only in the 20th century.
What is the Hittite Empire?
This capital of a landlocked Asian nation, once called Astana, was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019 and reverted to its original name in 2022.
What is Astana?
This English mathematician and inventor, often called the "father of computing," designed the Analytical Engine in the 1830s.
Who is Charles Babbage?
This 1915 theory by Einstein, building on his earlier work on special relativity, redefined our understanding of gravity and spacetime.
What is the General Theory of Relativity?
This 1453 event, the fall of a major city to the Ottoman Empire, marked the end of the Byzantine Empire and a shift in global trade routes.
What is the Fall of Constantinople?