Human Geography
This agricultural region of southwest Asia birthed many of the world’s oldest civilizations, and is named after a shape.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This 1773 event, in which American colonists protested the Tea Act by dumping tea into Boston Harbor, escalated tensions with Britain.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This institution, which dominated medieval European life, was the center of power in both spiritual and political affairs.
What is the Catholic Church?
This anti-apartheid leader served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 after spending 27 years in prison.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The first sound films were called this name by their audiences.
What is a talkie?
This country is located directly south of India.
What is Sri Lanka?
This doctrine, articulated in 1823, stated that European nations should no longer colonize or interfere in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1494 treaty between Spain and Portugal divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the two powers.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This ancient system of philosophy and ethics was founded by a Chinese thinker and became the basis for social order in China.
What is Confucianism?
This form of popular media replaced pulp fiction books in the 1950s.
What are comic books?
This is the term for an area where it is difficult to purchase food.
What is food desert?
This 1865 law aimed to provide federal assistance to the South during Reconstruction, including education and healthcare, but was ultimately vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Ottoman ruler, who reigned from 1520 to 1566, is often considered the empire’s greatest sultan, known for his military conquests and legal reforms.
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
This movement, which began in 1840s Japan, aimed to modernize and Westernize the country, leading to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This Jewish Eastern European immigrant was expected to become a rabbi by his well-educated family, but pursued a life as an escape artist instead.
Who is Harry Houdini?
This describes the phenomenon of two languages combining into one temporary language.
What is a pidgin language?
This 1906 book by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and led to reforms such as the Meat Inspection Act.
What is The Jungle?
This 1789 event, caused by rising bread prices and economic hardship, is often regarded as the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This revolutionary figure is often referred to as "The Liberator" and played a key role in the independence of at least six South American countries.
Much to the chagrin of conservative, Christian parents, this band invented the heavy metal music genre with their 1970 album “Paranoid”.
What is Black Sabbath?
This prefecture is the northernmost in Japan.
What is Hokkaido?
The first form of representative government in the English colonies, which convened in 1619, was known as this.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This 1916 agreement between Britain and France divided the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces into spheres of influence and laid the groundwork for modern Middle Eastern borders.
What is the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
This piece of propaganda was required by every Chinese citizen to carry on their person at all times.
What is the Little Red Book?
This type of technology made it so that every record a person buys is standard for any record player, revolutionizing how people experienced music.
What is rpm standardization?