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100

The bottom of the feudal pyramid; legally tied to the land that they live on (which they don't own, obviously)

SERFS

100

Sculptor and painter; author of such works as The Pieta and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

MICHELANGELO

100

This overwhelmingly sad movie was set (and shot) in a Massachusetts town by the same name; Casey Affleck stars as a Quincy janitor

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

100

This Catholic scientist studied the motion of planets, and was eventually tried for blasphemy for his heliocentric beliefs.

GALILEO GALILEI

100

The name of the Soviet military.

RED ARMY

100

King at the time of the French Revolution

LOUIS XVI

100

Name a significant industrial city in the Merrimack Valley.

LAWRENCE, HAVERHILL, LOWELL, NASHUA, MANCHESTER, CONCORD
100

Style of warfare fought for the first time in large numbers on the western front of WWI; characterized by slow (or no) progress and high casualties

TRENCH WARFARE

100

City that I studied in during college and grad school; "The Venice of the North"

ST. PETERSBURG

200

Group of religious zealots who hit themselves with whips in order to cleanse both their own sins and those of the community, but really just end up getting gross plague blood everywhere

FLAGELLENTS

200

You could purchase these for cash back in the day before the Reformation; many priests, in particular in Germany, became rich from them

INDUGENCES

200

At the end of "The Next Episode," Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg implore their listeners to regularly carry out this activity.

SMOKE WEED

200

Theorizer of "Natural Rights" of human beings

200

This English soccer team's logo contains a weird bird; more to the point, it's the most successful (in terms of total trophies won) team in the country.

LIVERPOOL

200

The Estate in French Society that pays essentially all of the tax burden, crashing the economy

THIRD ESTATE

200

Marx's term for people in history with capital who have suppressed the working class since the beginning of society.

BOURGEOIS

200

Hitler and the Nazis attempt to take power in Munich, and control all of Bavaria for an eventual pan-German rebellion, in this booze-soaked event

THE BEER HALL PUTSCH

200

Charlotte NC's football/football stadium

BANK OF AMERICA STADIUM

300

The system of honor that governed knightly behavior; formed pragmatically to prevent violence specialists (knights) from carrying out too much local violence

CHIVALRY

300

Author of The Prince, a book encouraging leaders to rule through fear rather than love

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

300

In Chief Keef's song "Three Hunna," Sosa famously pulls up in that Audi, whereas you pull up in THIS.

THAT HONDA

300

Louis XIV says this as a summary of his political philosophy (IN FRENCH - I WILL NOT ACCEPT ENGLISH)

L'ETAT; C'EST MOI

300

In the 1950s, this American congressperson leads "The Second Red Scare" after alleging that the Army and State Department are full of secret communists.

EUGENE McCARTHY

300

Meeting held by the "great powers" of Europe in the aftermath of Napoleon to re-stabilize the continent and re-establish the norm of monarchy

CONGRESS of VIENNA

300

The indigenous language of Ireland; suppressed during English occupation after the famine

GAELIC

300

The process in which Hitler gets the Sudetenland, then Austria, and then begins demanding Danzig, and the western allies just sort of... let him do it, in hope that he won't do it again later

APPEASEMENT

300

Godzilla's flying friend who helps him save the world often

MOTHRA

400

The result of a series of natural disasters, including cold weather and unseasonable rain, that itself results in the Black Death

FAMINE OF 1315

400

These Reformation-era Christians preach nonviolence, communal living, and toleration of other religions - which naturally means everyone else hates them

ANABAPTISTS

400

Luke Skywalker was born on THIS celestial body in the Star Wars series of films.

POLIS MASSA

400

Speaker of the quote "man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest;" also (way more chill) wrote an early Encyclopedia

DIDEROT

400

Taylor Swift leaves THIS item at her ex-boyfriend (likely Jake Gyllenhall)'s house in All Too Well from her album Red

SCARF

400

Island on which Napoleon was born

CORSICA

400

The solution to Hungarian nationalism within Austria-Hungary in which the crown of Hungary is created (and then also given to the king of Austria)

DUAL MONARCHY

400

City in Basque Country bombed during the Spanish Civil War; inspiration for Picasso's painting by the same name

GUERNICA

400

Macbeth sees this implement before him before heading off to (spoiler alert) kill his liege lord.

A DAGGER

500

Western Italian city that, along with Venice, receives the plague first in 1348

GENOA

500

Erasmus comes from here; a northern European kingdom that boasts artists like Vermeer and the Old Masters as the center of the Northern Renaissance

NETHERLANDS / HOLLAND

500

An important Russian ballet made famous by the similarly-named Natalie Portman / Mila Kunis film; features an evil wizard, a kind noble, and a whooooooole lot of birds

SWAN LAKE

500

State that proudly has "The Golden Liberty," an early example of constitutional monarchy

POLAND-LITHUANIA (need both)

500

This character in Stephen King's The Shining writes "REDRUM" on his hotel room's door while his dad gets locked in a pantry and his mom clings on to her sanity

DANNY

500

Title given to Napoleon BEFORE Emperor, which legitimizes his power by comparing his dictatorial rule to the dictatorial rule of Rome

FIRST CONSUL

500

According to Marx, if the proletariat rise up, they will have nothing to lose but this!

THEIR CHAINS!

500

Soviet (and now Russian) name for WWII, specifically WWII on the eastern front

GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (VELIKAYA OTECHESTVENNAYA VOINA)

500

In The Lord of the Rings, this is the realm of Theoden King; warriors from this land charge the orcs in "Return of the King"

ROHAN