European History
She was the first wife of the current king of the United Kingdom
What is Diana Princess of Wales
This Native American was a Powhatan woman who married Jamestown colonist and tobacco farmer John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahantas?
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What is Sacramento?
This individual founded the Achaemenid Empire in Persia (modern Iran)
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Mining rights for this substance led to a conflict between the Duke of Ferrara and Pope Sixtus IV in a 15th-century conflict named for it. France's acquisitions from the Albigensian Crusade led to the establishment of a crown tax named the gabelle on this substance. The Song dynasty perfected large, artificial evaporation ponds for extracting this substance. The land word salary may be derived from, for the point, what mineral used to preserve food?
What is salt?
This person was the Queen of France and wife of King Louis the Sixteenth who was executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette
This movement ignited in Montgomery, Alabama when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger.
What is the civil rights movement?
Texas
What is Austin?
In Greek myth, this inventor was imprisoned by King Minos, who ordered Daedalus to build a labyrinth for the minotaur.
Who is Daedalus?
During this period, the heretical sect of self-whipping acolytes known as the "Flagellants" peaked in popularity. One theory states this period began after Hanseatic contacts in the fur tradetravel led to the Republic of Novgorod. Under Casimir the Great, the effects of this period were lessened in Poland, because the Jewish community spread hygienic practices like handwashing. Up to half of Europe's population was killed by, for the point, what 14th century blight?
What is the black death, or the Plague?
This ship was carrying civilian passenagers when it was sunk by a German U Boat in 1915.
What is the RMS Lisutania
This National Park became a protected area of California due in part to efforts led by naturalist John Muir.
What is Yosemite Park?
What is Columbus
This war was fought between ancient Greece’s two most powerful city-states: Athens and Sparta. Prior to 431BC, tensions between the Delian League of city-states, led by Athens, and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, had seemingly been resolved by the Thirty Years’ Treaty. However, open war was triggered by Sparta-allied Thebes’ attack on Athens-allied Plataea.
What is Peloponnesian War?
Using the numeri auxiliary system, this general introduced Eastern mounted archers and cataphracts into the Legion. This proponent of "Strength through Peace" rebuilt the Pantheon following its partial destruction during a 114 fire. This man accepted Antoninus Pius as his successor on the condition that he appoint Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his heirs.
Who is Hadrian?
This illuminated manuscript was compiled around 800 CE and is now on display at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
What is the Book of Kells?
Name the fraternal society, whose detractors formed the first third party in American politics, the Anti-Masonic Party.
What is The Freemasons?
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What is Lincoln?
This group is responsible for the 455 sack of Rome that ultimately led to the Western Roman Empire’s fifth-century collapse.
Who are the Vandals?
This fifteenth-century Portuguese prince, often credited with jumpstarting the Age of Exploration whose forces met disaster against Marinid sultan Salah ibn Salah at the 1437 Battle of Tangiers, after which this man's brother, Ferdinand, was given as a hostage.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This person was a member of the Non-aligned Movement who led Yugoslavia in various posts from 1945 to 1980 after leading the Partisans during World War Two.
Who is Josip Broz Tito
This battle took place during the War of 1812 and ended with Oliver Hazard Perry’s famous claim that “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What is the battle of lake eerie
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What is Cheyenne?
This battle, led by Miltiades, the vastly-outnumbered Athenians repelled Persian king Darius I’s invasion of Greece at the plains of Marathon. The Spartans, to whom Athens appealed for help against the invaders, were delayed by a religious festival, so the Athenians had only 1,000 men from Plataea to bolster their ranks.
Shortly before this operation, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud declared Leopold III a "traitor" for surrendering after the Battle of the Lys. The Ministry of Shipping scoured the River Thames for private naval vessels to lease, later becoming known as the "Little Ships of" this operation.
What is Dunkirk?