Asian History
Who is King Sejong the Great?
This powerful banking family of Florence became the patrons of many artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo.
What is the Medici family?
This was the name of the American operation to resupply the namesake city that the Soviet Union was blockading.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
This was a North African city-state whose greatest General was Hanibal Barca of the Punic Wars.
What is Carthage?
This president accended to the Presidency position following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This government was founded in 1603 after the battle of Sekiahara, ending the sengoku jidai period.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
This English scientist is the father of Calculus and created his Three Laws of Motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This treaty was a collective defense agreement led by the Soviet Union with other Eastern European countries in response to NATO.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
This battle names a sport and took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between Athens and Persia.
What was the Battle of Marathon?
This was an Argentinian Marxist revolutionary who was a key figure in the 26th of July Movement, which brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba.
Who was Ernesto "Che" Guevara?
This is an Abbasid library in Baghdad, which was an academic institution during the Islamic Golden Age.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This Austrian was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, succeeding U Thant of Myanmar.
Who is Kurt Waldheim?
This is the ruling dynasty that originated in France, which included prominent figures such as Henry IV and "the Sun King."
What was the House of Bourbon?
The Byzantine Empire was founded by this Roman emperor in 330 AD where Rome was split into its western and eastern halves.
Who was Emperor Constantine?
This was a 19 February – 26 March 1945 battle in the Pacific Theater of WW2, where the US Marines overran a heavily entrenched Japanese Army position. This was the battle in preparation for the invasion of Okinawa.
What was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
This is the only female Empress of China to rule in her own right, who ruled during the Tang Dynasty.
Who is Wu Zetian?
This political movement culminated with the kingdoms of the Italian peninsula unifying into a single Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
What was the Riorgimento?
This was a Benedictine abbess and German polymath who was an accomplished writer, philosopher, and composer.
Who was Hildegard of Bingen?
The Year of the Four Emperors, which preceded the Flavian dynasty, was ruled by these four rulers in 69 AD. (MUST NAME ALL 4)
Who was Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian?
This was the president and the autocratic dictator of Haiti from 1957 until 1971.
Who was Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier?
In 1665, public celebrations of this observance were banned under the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Guru Gobind Singh extended this observance for Sikhs, adding a three-day-long festival which traditionally includes martial arts demonstrations.
What is Holi/Festival of Love?
A set of fortifications along a shore named for these people is detailed in the Notitia Dignitatum. These people faced a confederacy of Obotrites led by Drozko at the Battle of Bornhöved.
Who are the Saxons?
Bayezid II claimed that this edict was foolish since it “[gave him the] national treasure” of one country. This edict gave rise to a “crypto” group that continued the practice it sought to ban by July 31st of the year it was ordered.
What was the Alhambra Decree/Edict of Granada/Edict of Explusion of Jews from Spain?
In a 1992 book, Graham Hancock claims that this item was, for a time, held in Lake Tana. Known as the tabot in the Ge’ez language, this item is said to be housed in a building dedicated to “Our Lady Mary of Zion." Replicas of this item are contained in each Tewahedo Church.
What is the Ark of the Covenant
To cover up the nature of this event, Manucher Ghorbanifar suggested justifying it by freeing hostages held by Hezbollah. This event was investigated by the Tower Commission and led to the conviction of Oliver North.
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?