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Ancient Egypt
John Brown
Court Cases
Mongols
Spanish-American War
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This river’s relatively reliable flooding was the basis for the development of ancient Egypt’s agricultural society.
What is the Nile River?
100
John Brown was a member of this growing group of people in the 19th century who opposed slavery.
Who are Abolitionists?
100
This court case struck down laws in 46 states that limited abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
100
A 2003 scientific study estimated that 0.5% of men in the world today possess a Y-chromosome that derives from this Mongol ruler’s lineage.
Who is Genghis Khan?
100
This dramatic event rallied the American people behind the idea of going to war with Spain in 1898.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
200
This son of Akhenaten reigned as king from age 8 to his mysterious death at age 19, and his tomb was discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamun?
200
This federal act that allowed for popular sovereignty to determine slavery laws will help spur the violence that made John Brown famous.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
Separate but equal was established in this court case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
This famous Italian traveler and writer served as an administrator to Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
This future U.S. President resigned as U.S. Secretary of the Navy to go fight in the war.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
This is the location of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and one of three pyramids from the Fourth Dynasty built here.
What is Giza?
300
John Brown and his followers planned to seize weapons from a federal arsenal at this location.
Where is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
300
In this case, the Supreme Court struck down separate but equal in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
This is the name for the roughly 100 year period of peace under the Mongol Empire that linked parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, allowing for an expansion of commerce, as well as social and cultural exchange that would greatly shape these regions in the following centuries.
What is Pax Mongolica?
300
U.S. Secretary of State John Hay nicknamed the Spanish-American War this—because of its short duration.
What is the “splendid little war?”
400
This ancient Egyptian god of the dead was often depicted with a jackal’s head on a man’s body.
Who is Anubis?
400
Brown was born during, and influenced by, this country's slave revolt.
What is Haiti?
400
In this case, the Supreme Court sided with southern states’ view that slaves were property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
400
The Mongol conquest of this city in 1258 involved an estimated 800,000 deaths and ended the Abbasid caliphate’s 500 year reign in the region.
What is Baghdad?
400
The Treaty of Paris of 1898 ended the Spanish-American War, ceding these three former Spanish colonies to the U.S.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines?
500
This common script used in ancient Egypt was one of the three scripts on the Rosetta Stone that allowed modern archaeologists to decipher hieroglyphs.
What is Demotic?
500
John Brown was arrested by a group of Marines led by this man who would later become a famous Confederate General.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
In 1824, this court case held that Congress, not the states, has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
500
At its largest, this western-most Mongol successor state reached as far as present-day Hungary in Europe.
What is the Golden Horde (Kipchak Khanate)?
500
This second war happened as a direct result of the conditions of the Treaty of Paris of 1898.
What is the American-Filipino War?