Ancient Civilizations
$100: This river was the lifeline of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
$100: He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
$100: The American Revolution began in this year.
What is 1775?
$100: The Declaration of Independence was signed in this year.
What is 1776?
$100: He invented the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
$200: This city-state in Greece was known for its warriors.
What is Sparta?
$200: She was the Queen of England during the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Who is Elizabeth I?
$200: This war was fought between the North and South in the U.S.
What is the Civil War?
$200: He delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
$200: The Wright brothers are famous for this invention.
What is the airplane?
$300: The Great Wall was built to protect this country.
What is China?
$300: This French leader crowned himself Emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
$300: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand started this war.
What is World War I?
$300: This deal doubled the size of the U.S. in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
$300: This Polish scientist discovered radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
$400: The Roman Colosseum was mainly used for these events.
What are gladiator games?
$400: This South African leader fought against apartheid and became president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
$400: The Cold War was mostly between the U.S. and this country.
What is the Soviet Union?
$400: She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
$400: Johannes Gutenberg invented this in the 1400s.
What is the printing press?
$500: This civilization developed cuneiform, one of the first writing systems.
What are the Sumerians?
$500: This Mongol leader created the largest land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
$500: This Asian conflict from 1950–1953 is sometimes called “The Forgotten War.”
What is the Korean War?
$500: The Watergate scandal caused this U.S. President to resign.
Who is Richard Nixon?
$500: He proposed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?