The river around which the Egyptian civilization was formed.
What is the Nile?
The belief in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
This man was crowned King of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas day in 800 AD.
Who is Charlemagne?
This artist was commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who was Michelangelo?
This president died after nearly a month in office.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The King of Israel who killed Goliath the Philistine.
Who is David?
Roman general who crossed the Rubicon and won a civil before being assassinated on March 15, 44 BCE.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This famous 15th century figure believed God had chosen them to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England.
Who is Joan of Arc?
This English Monarch infamously had sixth wives.
Who is Henry VIII?
This place in what is now North Carolina is often referred to as “the lost colony.”
Where is Roanoke?
This Persian Emperor's army went through the Hellespont in their invasion of Greece.
Who is Xerxes?
The first Roman emperor.
Who is Augustus/ Octavian?
This Roman Emperor split the empire into two, East and West.
Who was Diocletian?
This monarch reigned when the English Civil War broke out, and eventually was parted with his head.
Who was Charles I?
This man killed slave masters and liberated slaves, dying at a federal Arsenal in Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
The Father of Alexander the Great and King of Macedon who greatly strengthened and his kingdom.
Who is Philip (II of Macedon)?
According to Shakespeare, he said, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen."
Who is Marc Anthony?
Charles Martel led his Frankish troops to victory in 732 against the Umayyad Caliphate into this battle.
What is the Battle of Tours?
This Polish Renaissance polymath’s theory of the universe placed the sun, and not the earth at its center.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This treaty officially ended war with Mexico in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The founder and first ruler of the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus (the Great)?
What is decimation?
This Roman Emperor made Christianity accepted with the Edict of Milan.
Who is Constantine?
This English privateer, eventually made a Knight by Elizabeth I, tormented Spanish ships by looting them.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
This Native was an invaluable help to the colonists at Plymouth, teaching them to grow corn and act as a translator.
Who is Squanto?