Ancient History
The poet who sang of the sack of Ilium and the journeys of Odysseus.
Who is Homer?
This leader was known as "the great" in the Frankish kingdom.
Who is Charlemagne?
This was the age where thinkers began to depart from much of the Medieval thinking, leading to ideas about democracy and idealism.
What is the Enlightenment?
This global conflict lasted from 1914-1918.
What is World War I?
This historical face is on Mr. Phipps' socks right now.
WHo is Abraham Lincoln?
This form of literature was made famous by authors such as Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides.
What is tragedy?
Which country took on the mantle of the West, giving itself a three-part name; these three parts may not have made a lot of sense.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
This nation gathered one of the largest ever empires entirely in South and Central America during the age of Exploration, though they weren't known for treating the natives the kindliest.
Who was Spain?
This leader of the Union of Soviet Socialst Republics implemented perestroika and glasnost, leading to the end of the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This is the amount of strings on a Mandocello.
What is 8?
This famous leader led his army to cross the Rubicon to take over their own city in a coup.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This kind of economic system was prevalent in the middle ages, making a bottom-to-top system where tenants payed lords to live in most of the land.
What is feudalism?
This thinker discussed ideas of natural rights, inclluding life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This structure, built in 1961, became the symbol of division during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Roucoul is the French name of this Pokémon.
What is Pidgey?
This style of writing was pictorial, using pictures to describe life in ancient Egypt.
What are Hieroglyphics?
This year was one of the most important years in English history. At least, according to the French conquerors.
What is 1066?
Who is Great Britain?
This type of war takes place between two or more countries, but serves as a smaller part of a bigger conflict for bigger countries.
What is a proxy war?
This Eastern European language is the only Romance language in East Europe.
What is Romanian?
This Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with elephants during the Second Punic War to invade Rome.
Who is Hannibal?
This document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This English king broke with the Roman Catholic Church and established the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
This 1962 Cold War confrontation in the Caribbean brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is Star Wars: A New Hope?