Latin American History
The year Columbus landed
What is 1492?
The number of US presidents
What is 46?
The Cradle of Civilization
What is Mesopotamia?
Young girl who led French soldiers into battle against the English at the siege of Orleans. Patron saint of France. (referenced in a song by The Smiths)
Who was Joan of Arc?
The year the University of Arizona was established
What is 1885?
Tenochtitlan, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu,
What are pre-Columbian cities?
The Articles of Confederation
What was the predecessor to the current US constitution?
The Cradle of Humankind
What is South Africa?
The United Kingdom's 2020 withdrawal from the European Union
What is Brexit?
The person who coined "Bear Down"
John Byrd “Button” Salmon
Infamous bandit and general of the Mexican Revolution (he has a statue on Church and Congress)
Pima, Tohono O'odham, Yaqui, Hopi, Navajo, Yavapai, Apache, and more
What are some of the federally recognized tribes in Arizona?
What is Liberia
The year the Berlin Wall fell
What is 1989?
The scientific process invented here in 1937
What is Tree-Ring Research?
The massive Latin American country which existed from 1819 - 1831 and was the predecessor to modern day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela
What is the Gran Colombia?
"Weapons of Mass Destruction" and Saddam Hussein's "ties to global terrorism"
What was the alleged reasoning behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
French colonial predecessor to modern-day Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
What is French Indo-China?
His assassination was the catalyst for WWI
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The fountain at Old Main memorializes this.
What are student casualties of WWI?
Fulgencio Bautista, Augusto Pinochet, Efrain Rios Montt, Anastasio Somoza, Rafael Trujillo
Who were US-backed dictators in Latin America?
The year this most recent US state was formally recognized as such
What is Hawaii in 1959?
Chinese leader responsible for the liberal reforms China underwent in the 1980s
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
The gay, British man who cracked the enigma code
Who was Alan Turing?
An important document borrowed by NASA from the U of A for the 1969 moon landing
What are the U of A's Lunar Maps?