Chinese History
These are the three traditional Chinese religions.
What is Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The assassination of this Archduke in Sarajevo is credited with triggering the start of WWI.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
This massive amphitheater in the center of Rome was used for gladiator contests and public spectacles.
What is the Colosseum?
She was the Queen of France during the revolution and is famously (though inaccurately) associated with the phrase "Let them eat cake."
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This theological/political concept, established in the Zhou Dynasty, argues that a ruler's right to lead is granted by divine favor.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
This radical faction of the Republican Party during the Civil War era pushed for immediate abolition and harsh Reconstruction terms.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This codename referred to the secret U.S. project to develop the first atomic weapons.
What is the Manhattan Project?
According to legend, these two twin brothers were raised by a wolf and founded the city of Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This 14th-century pandemic, spread by fleas on rats, killed an estimated 30% to 60% of Europe's population.
What is the Black Death (or Bubonic Plague)?
This 17th-century Jesuit missionary became a trusted advisor to the Wanli Emperor and introduced Western cartography and astronomy to the court.
Who is Matteo Ricci?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1919 treaty officially ended WWI but is often criticized for the "War Guilt Clause" imposed on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This famous Egyptian Queen had political and romantic alliances with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
This 19th-century conflict, fought between the British Empire and the Russian Empire, is often called the "first modern war" due to the use of telegraphs and railroads.
What is the Crimean War?
This "Second Sage" of Confucianism argued that human nature is inherently good, famously using the analogy of a child falling into a well.
Who is Mencius?
This 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania was the first major test of the federal government's authority to enforce domestic laws.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1915 naval disaster involving a British ocean liner helped shift U.S. public opinion against Germany.
What is the Sinking of the Lusitania?
In 313 CE, Constantine the Great issued this proclamation, permanently establishing religious toleration for Christianity.
What is the Edict of Milan?
This stone, discovered in 1799, provided the key to modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs because it featured the same text in three different scripts.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This 1842 treaty, the first of the "Unequal Treaties," ended the First Opium War and ceded Hong Kong to the British.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
He was the only U.S. President to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after leaving the Oval Office.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This 1942 executive order authorized the forced relocation and internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This 3rd-century Emperor built a massive wall across northern Britain to secure the empire's frontier.
Who is Hadrian?
This 19th-century document, issued by a U.S. President, warned European powers that further efforts to colonize land in the Americas would be viewed as acts of aggression.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?