Byzantine and Roman History
What year was the city of Rome Founded
753 BC
Who was the first president of Turkey
Mustafa Kamal Pasha Atta Turk
Who caused the Library of Alexandria to burn.
Julius Caesar
Who married their mother and killed their father?
Oedipus
Who was the famous communist that was ice-picked by Papa Stalin?
Trotsky
A popular Roman Sport after gladiator games were outlawed. teams were called demes.
Chariot Races
Who was the Chinese revolutionary that founded the KMT
Sun Yat Sen
What was the name of Athens's alliance in the Peloponnesian war.
Delian League
What was the goal of Jason and The Argonauts?
To retrieve the golden fleece
Who was the Sultan that took Constantinople
Mehmed II
Who lead the optimares, and who lead the populares in the first Roman civil war
Sulla and Marius
What terrorist group was Gavrilo Princip apart of
The Black Hand
This civilization supposedly navigated around Africa for the Pharo
The Phoenicians
What type of monster was Medusa?
Gorgon
What is the name of expedition where the US intervened in the Russian Civilwar?
Polar Bear Expedition
The famous general that carried out many of Justinian's campaigns
Belisarius
Who was the Wright Brothers chief competitor and inventor of the aileron
Glenn Curtis
Who was Hannibal's brother who fought with Scipio in Spain
Hasdrubal
What was Odysseus's helmet made of?
Boar Tusks
Which Native American Nation had a large influence on the Constitution.
Iroquois Confederacy
Who was the last Byzantine(Roman) Emperor
Constantine XI Palaiologos
In Industrializing Britain, there were a group of men who would dress in women's clothes and go about smashing any industrial machinery they came across. Who were these people?
The Luddites
Why was Alcibiades recalled back to Athens to be killed?
He supposedly vandalized all the statues of Hermes before he left for Syracuse.
What Island was Zeus born on?
Crete
What was the first steam engine used for?
To pump water out of a mine.