Ancient History
The world’s oldest recorded civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
The largest empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
The last state to be admitted into the Union.
What is Hawaii?
The intellectual and philosophical movement that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
What is the Enlightenment?
She was the second woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court who recently passed in 2020.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
The king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology.
Who is Zeus?
The name of the international group formed to maintain world peace after World War 1
What is the League of Nations?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This leader made a nonaggression pact with Hitler, which was later broken.
Who is Stalin?
He is commonly referred to as the person who created the first printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
The term for the day Julius Caesar was assassinated.
What is the Ides of March?
He sponsored Christopher Columbus' expedition to the Americas.
Who is King Ferdinand of Spain?
The first city to be capitol of the United States.
What is New York City?
This leader was defeated in the battle of Waterloo.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
He was the most influential thinker of what became known as the Black Power movement and a leader in the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Malcolm X?
Modern-day Istanbul, Turkey, used to be called this when it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
During World War II, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, which is in this country.
What is France?
The first American president to be impeached.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
The military agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I.
The Triple Alliance
He is known as the Father of Medicine.
Who is Hippocrates?
This ancient figure is often considered the founder of Western philosophy.
The code name of the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
What is Operation Barbarossa? (or Operation Fritz)
The date of the Black Tuesday stock market crash.
What is October 24th, 1929?
He was crowned Roman Emperor of the West in 800.
Who is Charlemagne?
This US President was the first person to win a Noble Peace Prize.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?