Music History
The first "instrumment" used to make music is believed to be this.
What is the human voice?
Water, wood, oil, gas, and minerals are all examples of these.
What are natural resources? (Acceptable: What are resources).
This is the process of the world becoming more interconnected through the rapid exchange of goods, services, money, technology, and cultures across borders and continents.
What is globalization?
At the sight of this Union victory in Pennsylvania, President Lincoln gave his much-quoted speech in which he declared "all men are created equal."
What is Gettysburg? (Acceptable: What is the Battle of Gettysburg?)
This period of history, coming after the Paleolithic Era, is marked by the development of agriculture, domestication of animals and first permanent, human settlements.
What is/was the Neolithic Era/Age (Acceptable: What is/was the New Stone Age? )
Carved from the femur of a cave bear, this is the oldest known human-made instrument, dating to approximately 43,0000 BCE.
What is a flute?
The three basic questions all economic systems must answer include: "How should resources be produced?" "Who should get the goods and services produced?", and this first economic question:
What should be produced?
This capital city in Central America, boasting a population of close to 23 million people, is one of the largest urban areas in the world.
What is Mexico City?
Beginning in 1892, Immigrants arriving to the U.S. from Europe were processed at this busy New York harbor station.
What is Ellis Island?
This carved, upright, stone tablet or stele is the first-known written code of law and is named after the Mesopotamian king credited for created them.
What is the Code of Hammurabi? (Acceptable: Who is Hammurabi?)
During the early Middle Ages, this song was was sung in Latin with no instrumental accompaniment as a musical form of prayer in Christian worship services.
What is/was the Kyrie Eleison (acceptable: What is a Gregorian chant?; What is a chant?)
In this economic model, sometimes known as a "market economy," people and private businesses own and control production. Competition and the forces of supply and demand determine what goods and services are produced.
What is capitalism? (Acceptable: What is Free Enterprise?)
Many businesses in the United States engage in this practice of moving factories to other countries to lower the cost of wages paid to workers and other operating costs.
What is offshoring?
These industrial-age reformers fought for everything from the prohibition of alcohol to improving salaries and working conditions in factories and the health and living conditions of immigrants.
Who were the progressives?
Many scholars believe this ancient group of people, known for their large carvings of stone heads, were the first humans to settle in what is now Central America.
Who were the Olmecs?
This classical-era composer is most famously known for his operas that pioneered new sounds and stunning staging and choreography, including The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro.
Who is/was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (Acceptable: Who is/was Mozart?)
In theory, this economic system strives for total equity among people with no private ownership of property. However, in practice, it often leads to dictatorships to maintain control over the means of production.
What is communism? (Acceptable: What is Marxism?).
"Green Revolution" government policies in Soviet-era Russia led to over irrigation that reduced this once great body of water down to almost nothing.
What is the Aral Sea?
The Zimmerman Telegram, sent by Germany to this central American country, promised they would gain land in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico if they would agree to declare war against the United States.
What is Mexico?
This Roman province which was once an independent Jewish kingdom is known as the the birthplace of Christianity.
What is Judea? (Acceptable: What is Isreal/Palestine?)
This American musical genre, developed during the first decades of the 20th century is known for its improvisational style and being a major influence in the development of Rock, Rap, and Hip Hop.
What is jazz?
This amendment to the U.S. constitution guarantees citizens' right to own private property by stating that the government cannot take property for the eminent domain (public use) without due process and fair compensation for the loss of their property.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This Christian minority population has continuously resided in Egypt for nearly 2,000 years.
Who/what are the Copts?
FDR's government-funded programs focusing on relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression are commonly known as this plan.
What is/was the New Deal? (Acceptable: What were the Alphabet Soup programs?)
This German monk authored the 95 Theses, a list of arguments against the church's sale of indulgences-- the notion that giving money to the Church was a way for people to purchase forgiveness of sins and earn a place in heaven after death.
Who was Martin Luther?