Women in History
This woman became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
These two brothers were the mythological founders of Rome.
Who was Romulus and Remus?
This 1884 meeting of European powers established rules for the colonization of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This invention made dramatic improvements to the efficiency of factories and transportation, helping to facilitate and accelerate the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Steam Engine?
This woman accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition across the Western United States and acted as an interpreter and guide.
Who is Sacagawea?
This president won the heavily disputed election of 1876 by accepting the Compromise of 1877, resulting in the end of Reconstruction in the South.
Who was Rutherford B Hayes?
This ancient empire was the first to stretch all the way from Anatolia to India and was founded by Cyrus the Great.
What is the Persian Empire? What is the Achaemenid Empire? What is the Iranian Empire?
This empire founded in 1299 survived up until World War 1 and was dissolved in 1922.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
First discovered by Alexander Fleming, this substance was one of the most important scientific discoveries in the history of medicine.
What is Penicilin?
This all-female Soviet bomber regiment became infamous during World War 2.
Who are the Night Witches?
This English document created a system of self-government in Connecticut and is considered to be the earliest written constitution in the English colonies.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This was the battle where Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian.
What is the Battle of Actium?
This civilization successfully halted Mongol Expansion in the Middle East.
What is the Mamluk Sultanate?
This Chinese invention was developed during the ninth century and revolutionized warfare.
What is gunpowder?
This queen of the Ndongo and Matamba maintained the African kingdoms' independence against Portuguese expansion.
Who is Queen Nzinga?
This Naval confrontation in 1964 was used by the United States government to expand military involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This was the first major outbreak of the bacteria Yersinia Pestis, aka Bubonic Plague.
What was the Plague of Justinian?
This document emerged from the Mexican Revolution and includes core principles of labor reform, rights and the separation of church and state and is still used today.
What is the Mexican Constitution of 1917?
This game, developed in the Gupta Empire, is the common ancestor of various other games, including modern chess.
What is Chaturanga?
This Brittonic queen led a large rebellion against the Romans.
Who is Boudica?
On December 20, 1860 this state was the first to secede from the United States in response to the election of Abraham Lincoln.
What is South Carolina?
This admiral led Korean forces to victory in the Imjin War against Japan and never lost a single ship or battle.
Who was Yi Sun-Sin?
This was the first country where women won the right to vote.
What is New Zealand?
This Soviet space exploration program created the only photos of the surface of Venus.
What are the Venera Missions?