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Frozen skeleton found in the Austrian Alps that is the oldest European mummy we have today. This person was probably killed by the arrowhead found lodged in their shoulder.
Who is Otzi the Iceman?
The one empire in world history that was able to control the entire Mediterranean Sea. It was centered around Italy.
What is Rome?
Common violent practice by the Aztecs and Maya to please their gods to prevent the world from ending.
What is human sacrifice?
Type of warfare where people fight their enemies while hiding in dugouts carved out of the ground. Conditions were notoriously terrible.
What is trench warfare?
Genocide of millions of Jews, Roma, Slavs, disabled, gay people, and enemies of the German government.
What is the Holocaust?
Greek city-state that was known for its love of learning, arts, and culture. They also had Greece's best navy and was home to Greece's most famous philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates).
What is Athens?
Greek city-state that was the home of fierce warriors trained essentially from birth to be expert soldiers. This city-state had Greece's best military and won its war against it's biggest rival.
What is Sparta?
Country that took over most of South America and a good chunk of North America too.
What is Spain?
Troubled country heading into World War I that had many languages spoken within it. The death of the person who was supposed to be their next leader started World War I.
What is Austria-Hungary?
Surprise attack on a Hawaiian naval base that prompted the US to join the war.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Sources that are first-hand accounts of what happened in the past. Examples include diaries, autobiographies, artifacts, video or audio recordings of what happened at certain events, etc.
What are primary sources?
Supreme Christian religious leader of Medieval Europe who could determine whether you went to heaven or not if you followed him.
Who is the pope?
Italian explorer who sailed for Spain in order to explore life in Asia. He accidentally found out that North and South America exist instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
DAILY DOUBLE: (Double points if both are correct)
What were the two major alliances of countries in World War I?
What were the Allies and the Central Powers?
DAILY DOUBLE (Double points if both are correct):
Type of ultra-racist government
Type of government that forces everyone to be equally rich or poor
What is fascism?
What is communism?
These ancient Egyptian structures were built at the same time that woolly mammoths roamed the earth.
What are pyramids?
Sources that are retellings of what happened in the past. Examples include textbooks, teacher slides, documentaries, biographies, etc.
What are secondary sources?
Empire that created the number 0, made giant pyramids, and had no writing system. Their empire suddenly stopped under mysterious circumstances.
Who are the Maya?
Archduke who was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. This person's death started a chain of events leading to World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
German war tactic of quickly sending in many tanks, airplanes, and other weapons as possible to overwhelm their enemies.
What is blitzkrieg?
Christian rituals that gave people grace and helped them go to heaven.
What are sacraments?
When the pope decides that you aren't worthy of having communion anymore, effectively cutting you off from the Church.
What is excommunication?
Miserable journey across the Atlantic Ocean for Africans captured and forced to be slaves.
What is the Middle Passage/Atlantic Slave Trade?
Explosive reason the US joined World War I.
What are German submarine attacks?
Type of "science" where people try to direct human evolution through selective breeding and/or killing others to "improve" the human race.
What is eugenics?