History of History
Ancient Greek philosopher sometimes called the "Father of History"
Who is Herodotus?
The first domesticated animal.
What is the dog?
What crop was a major driver of mass enslavement in the Americas?
What is the name for a disease that mostly impacts young people, typically under age five?
Fill in the blank: structure vs ______
What is agency?
What is a primary source?
This animal became domesticated following agriculture because it helped protect stored crops from pests.
What is the cat?
James Dole played a major role in promoting the production of this crop in Hawaii.
What is the pineapple?
While this disease has been eradicated, it was one of the most catastrophic killers of Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
What is smallpox?
Starting in 1492, this led to the global spread of plants, animals, and germs.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
What is the name for a view of history that is linear and progressive?
What is a teleological view?
This nation had a Pacific Rim empire that stretched as far as Sonoma County.
What is Russia?
A victorian botanist referred to these plants as the "tramps" of the plant world.
What are weeds?
This disease was largely limited to India until the 1800s, but then became one of the most deadly killers.
What is Cholera?
The name of a super volcano that perhaps nearly ended human existence.
What is Mt. Toba?
This is a Chinese scholar who wrote the first comprehensive history of China?
Who is Sima Qian?
This animal domesticated in the Americas was a major source of meat
What is the guinea pig?
What is the name of the region of Southwest Asia where many important plants and animals were domesticated?
This disease is spread by fleas that live on rats.
What is bubonic plague?
This is a scientific term for "Ice Age"
What is Pleistocene?
German philosopher who inspired Karl Marx
What is Hegel?
What animal played a major role in both the Mongol and Comanche Empires?
What is the horse?
This is the name of the French colony (now Haiti) that saw its landscape ravaged by intensive sugarcane production.
What is San Domingue?
How did most major diseases that afflict humans come to exist?
What is through domesticated animals?
This Caribbean Island suffered a major cholera outbreak in the 2010s.
What is Haiti?