Achaemenid Persian Empire
The founder of the Achaemenid Persian empire
Who was Cyrus the Great (Cyrus I)
This document, first written by Thomas Jefferson, laid out the foundations of the United States' power structure, and contained 10 amendments outlining the rights held by all citizens
What is the constitution (bill of rights)?
The "holy healer" who assisted Tsar Nicholas II with prince Alexi's hemophilia
Who was Rasputin?
This influenza killed at least 60 million people worldwide in the years 1917-1919
What is the Spanish Flu?
The man who wrote the Communist Manifesto
Who was Karl Marx?
The Macedonian sovereign who beat Darius III in the battles of Issus and Gaugamela
Who was Alexander the Great?
This British institution, operating during World War One and Two, inspired an important facet of the dystopian text "1984," due to their perceived draconian censorship.
What is the Ministry of Information?
The Bolshevik who became Alexander Kerensky's successor in 1920.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
One of the pioneers of the study of radioactivity, radium exposure killed this physicist in 1934
Who is Marie Curie?
This philosopher wrote "The Analects"
Who was Confucius?
The successor of Darius the Great, this king defeated 300 Spartans, as depicted in the movie 300
Who was Xerxes I?
This renaissance contemporary was a Florentine political family who helped to boost the work of many artists including Sandro Botticelli and his creation of the famed painting "The Birth of Venus."
Who were the Medici?
He was the Russian Tsar famous for freeing Russian Serfs from their serfdom
Who was Tsar Alexander II?
The number of events which have been recognized by the U.N. to be genocide since 1945.
What is 3?
This romantic poet was the husband of Mary Shelley, and wrote the poem Ozymandias
Who was Percy Bysshe Shelley?
This wonder of the ancient world is associated with a famous city conquered by Cyrus the Great
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
An adjective based on the characteristics of the government from the book "1984"
She is the only woman in Russian history to be given the moniker "The Great" while ruling as Tsar
Who was Catherine the Great?
Conducted in 1916 by the Russian Army, this battle, known as Russia's last gasp, killed between 1.2–1.8 million people.
What is the Brusilov Offensive?
Oedipus Rex, the story of a king who killed his father and married his mother, was written by this man
Who was Sophocles?
The first emperor in the Persian empire to be named after previous leader Darius I
Who was Darius II?
This is the name of the plane which dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
What is the Enola Gay?
Serving as prime minister of Russia and later as Minister of the Interior from 1906 to 1911, this man's surname became a colloquial term for the gallows in Russia during the early 20th century.
Who was Pyotr Stolypin?
This was the average lifespan of a soldier during the World War Two battle of Stalingrad.
What is 24 Hours?
Written in 1807 by Hegel, this work of philosophy is known to be his first explication of Hegelian dialectics, and serves to be one of the landmark meta-analyses of knowledge from 18th-19th century Germany.
What is "The Phenomenology of Spirit (or, less commonly, of Mind)"?