Mythology
This Hellenic figure is known to have disobeyed the ruler of Olympus in order to help humanity gain the knowledge of fire.
Prometheus
This conflict is often considered the original World War, taking place on three continents; Europe, North America, and in South Asia.
The Seven Years' War
This language is the only native non-Indo-European language in present-day Europe.
Basque
This state of matter is created when gaseous matter becomes highly charged through ionization.
Plasma
This author of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet is often considered the most famous and influential writer of all time.
William Shakespeare
What is the Norse concept of the end of the world steeped in divine battle and cyclical time.
Ragnarok
This military office, officially appointed by the Emperor of Japan de facto ruled Japan for most of the second millennium of the Common Era.
Shogun/Shogunate
This language group is native to the northern Japanese islands, and formerly Honshu.
Ainu
This Polish-born Frenchwoman was central to the early research into radioactivity,
Marie Curie-Skłodowska
This classic children's story written by a contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien follows children in war-torn Britain who escape to a mythical land.
The Chronicles of Narnia
This Chinese figure is known to rival the heavens themselves and is a supporting figure in The Journey to the West
Sun Wukong/The Monkey King
This chaotic period of Chinese history, following the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty, is famously romanticized in the "Romance of..."
Three Kingdoms
This native southern Indian language family including Tamil and Telugu differentiates the region from the country's North.
Dravidian
This unique form of water made of Deuterium has a slightly sweetly taste and was famously used to slow down neutrons in atomic bomb research.
Heavy Water
This series of early sci-fi books explore the concept of Messianic figures and colonialism.
What is Dune?
The chief god of the pagan Slavic pantheon is a thunder god related to the Norse god Thor and the Sanskrit god Parjanya.
Perun
Starting in the early 14th cenutry, this Hindu Indian Empire subjugated most of southern India before falling in the 17th century of the Common Era.
Vijayanagara Empire
This native American language is root source of several central American Countries' names.
Nahuatl
This modern method of air surveys has discovered previously unknown ruins beneath the Amazon jungle canopy.
LIDAR
This famous American novel, turned movie, is set during the Jazz Age and features heavy homoerotic motifs between the two main characters.
Great Gatsby
The Aztec people were led by this divine figure on their migration, whereupon they founded their city indicated by an eagle eating a snake upon a cacti on an island in the middle of a lake.
Huitzilopochtli
This Sub-Saharan city became the capital of two Great Empires in Western Africa before it fell to the Morrocan Sultanate and was left desolate.
Gao
This unique fusion of Semitic and Indo-European languages is spoken by an ethnic and religious diaspora spread across much of Europe and America.
Yiddish
This hypothesis solves the Fermi Paradox by suggesting that alien civilizations avoid broadcasting their existence in fear of being destroyed.
This series of early sci-fi books, explore the concept of mathematical future prediction.
Foundation series