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100

During the Constitutional Convention, this plan proposed a bicameral legislature based on population and was favored by larger states.

What is the Virginia Plan?

100

This 14th-century ruler is often considered the richest person in history and is known for his legendary pilgrimage to Mecca.

Who is Mansa Musa?

100

This South Asian country was split up into Princely States under British Rule.

What is India?

100

This Russian Empress overthrew her husband and led to the Enlightenment starting in Russia

Who is Catherine the Great?

100

This person is the first faculty advisor for the Madison Historians.

Who is Michael Seth?

200

This US foreign policy, established in 1823, warned European nations against colonizing or interfering in the Americas.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

200

This African country was founded by the American Colonization Society.

What is Liberia?

200

This mathematical concept of numbers was first conceptualized by ancient scholars in South Asia.

What is the concept of zero?

200

This Byzantine emperor attempted to reconquer the Western Roman Empire and commissioned the construction of the Hagia Sophia.

Who is Justinian I?

200

This professor is the head of the campus history committee.

Who is Meg Mulrooney?

300

The amount of times the word “slavery” is named in the US Constitution.

What is zero?

300

This African Country was where Beta Israel was contained.

What is Ethiopia?

300

In 1949, India gave this South Asian country independence which is also called the “Land of the Thunder Dragon.”

What is Bhutan?

300

The number of defenestrations of Prague.

What is three?

300

This professor is currently working on research about the founding fathers and their reactions to aging.

Who is Rebecca Brannon?

400

Hamilton misspelled this state in the US Constitution.

What is Pennsylvania? (Pensylvania)

400

The first human remains were found in this country.

What is Morocco?

400

This person made the first successful climb of Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary.

Who is Tenzing Norgay?

400

This decree, issued by King Louis XIV, set the legal conditions of Slavery and its Conduct in French Colonies until 1789

What is the Code Noir?

400

This former Madison Historians member works at Mount Vernon.

Who is Marina Curry?

500

This president standardized the date of Thanksgiving.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

500

This ancient kingdom, located south of Egypt, was known for its ironworking and later became a center for Christianity in Africa.

What is the Kingdom of Kush?

500

In the Ramayana, protagonist Rama ultimately faces off against this character, known as the demon-king.

What is the Ravana?

500

This pope held a trial for his predecessor (Pope Foromous) who had already been dead for several months, so was exhumed and put his rotting corpse on the stand.

Who is the Pope Stephan VI?

500

This residence hall in the Village was named after a former history professor.

What is Dingledine?