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Deep Lore
100
This Pandemic wiped out a third of Europe.
What is the Black Death?
100
This event was an irreversible break with the natural philosophy that had preceded it, fundamentally changing how the natural world was investigated and understood
What is the Scientific Revolution?
100
A period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.
What is the French Revolution?
100
The historical process of colonies gaining independence from colonial powers, and the ongoing, intentional, social, and academic effort to dismantle colonial systems, structures, and influences
What is Decolonization?
100
Mr. Willett went to high school at this super dope and awesome place.
What is Phillips Exeter?
200
This famous European traveler explored China.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
This was a dominant, pre-modern maritime trade system connecting East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Southeast Asia, and China
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
200
This massive Central African state was privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium, not the Belgian state. It was exploited for rubber under brutal conditions enforced by the Force Publique, an estimated 10 million people died.
What is the Congo Free State?
200
A political and economic ideology aiming for a classless, stateless society based on common ownership of the means of production, with wealth distributed according to need.
What is Communism?
200
This person is currently the Speaker of the House.
Who is Mike Johnson?
300
This person ruled the Yuan Dynasty of China. He was the grandson of Genghis Khan.
Who was Kublai Khan?
300
This powerful Muslim dynasty of Central Asian origin that ruled most of the Indian subcontinent, was founded by Babur, decendent of Genghis Khan
What is the Mughal Empire?
300
This event was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
300
A forum of 120 developing nations—the second largest grouping after the UN—that formed during the Cold War to maintain neutrality.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
300
This Maine high school is ranked 6th in Sack.
What is Freeport High School?
400
This major Persianate gunpowder dynasty was based in modern-day Iran, founded by Shah Ismail I.
What is the Safavid Empire?
400
This person was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
This belief was a 19th-century American and British value system defining femininity through four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.
What is the Ideology of Domesticity?
400
This person was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who led the Republic of China from 1928 until his death in 1975.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
400
This individual does the dance with the pants.
Who is Dillon Latham?
500
What is Angkor Wat?
500
This event was a brutal, destructive conflict fought mainly in Central Europe. Starting as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, it escalated into a political power struggle involving Sweden, France, and Spain. It ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
What is the Thirty Years War?
500
This group was a late 19th and early 20th-century Turkish nationalist and reformist movement that overthrew Sultan Abdülhamid II in 1908, aiming to modernize the Ottoman Empire, restore constitutional rule, and transition from a multi-ethnic empire to a centralized Turkish state.
Who are the Young Turks?
500
This man was the leader of the All India Muslim League and the founder of Pakistan.
Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
500
This man is the heir of Isildur, son of Elendil.
Who is Aragorn, son of Arathorn?
