Colonization
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, people, and ideas between the Old and New Worlds following European exploration.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This river was essential to life in Ancient Egypt and flooded yearly, providing fertile soil.
What is the Nile River?
This term describes a story passed down through generations that explains natural events or cultural traditions.
What is a myth?
ETHS stands for this.
What is Evanston Township High School?
This artist won Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards for her album "Cowboy Carter," marking her first win in this category after four previous nominations.
Who is Beyoncé?
This deadly disease, brought by Europeans, devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas.
What is smallpox?
The Ancient Egyptians used this system of picture writing, often carved on tombs and monuments.
What are hieroglyphics?
This city-state in ancient Greece was known for its military training and discipline, where boys began training for war at age 7.
What is Sparta?
This local government body makes decisions about ETHS policies and district-wide rules.
What is the District 202 School Board?
This 2023 blockbuster film, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, became the highest-grossing movie of the year.
What is Barbie?
This empire in South America resisted Spanish invasion but ultimately fell to Francisco Pizarro.
What is the Inca Empire?
This title was given to the rulers of Ancient Egypt, believed to be both kings and gods.
What is a pharaoh?
This early civilization developed cuneiform, one of the world’s first writing systems, and built ziggurats as religious temples.
What is Mesopotamia?
Students at ETHS can pre-register to vote at this age.
What is 17?
This golfer completed the career Grand Slam by winning the 2025 Masters Tournament in a playoff against Justin Rose.
Who is Rory McIlroy?
This forced labor system used by the Spanish in colonies made Indigenous people work in mines and plantations.
What is the encomienda system?
This female pharaoh expanded Egypt’s trade routes and built grand temples, including one at Deir el-Bahri.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This epic poem from Mesopotamia is one of the oldest known works of literature and features a hero who seeks immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
In 2021, Evanston became the first U.S. city to offer this form of racial justice compensation.
What is reparations?
In 2024, this former mayor of Mexico City became the first woman elected President of Mexico.
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?
This Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in present-day Mexico.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This artifact, discovered in 1799, helped scholars decode Egyptian writing because it had the same text in three languages.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This political system, first developed in ancient Athens, is characterized by citizens having the power to vote on decisions.
What is democracy?
This person will become the new principal of ETHS starting in the 2025–2026 school year.
Who is Dr. Quiana McNeal?
Which two clubs are set to face each other in the 2025 UEFA Champions League Final scheduled for May 31 at Munich’s Allianz Arena?
What are Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain?