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This music genre was born from a fusion of rhythm and blues and country. Emerging in the early 1950’s, the genre began the chain of events that would result in the creation of many other sub-genres
What is Rock'n'Roll?
This is often considered the first video game ever invented, it was made playable in the 1970s, simulating a popular sport
What is Pong
This disease from 2019 is a contagious disease caused by the spread of viral cells to new hosts. The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the first 21st century pandemic
What is Covid?
This is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime Since the 1920s, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music.
What is jazz?
This game as we know it today, was born out of the Indian game chaturanga before the 600s AD. The game spread throughout Asia and Europe over the coming centuries, and eventually evolved into one of the worlds most complicated and challenging board games.
What is Chess?
This was a plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. it was One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. It is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
What is the Black Death
This instrument used to the focal point of the household in the 1870s. The host would often play the instrument while entertaining guests, it was however limited to the elite who could afford it
What is the Piano
This game is derived from The Landlord's Game, created in 1903 in the US by Lizzie Magie, as a way to demonstrate that an economy rewarding individuals is better than one where one company hold all the wealth.
What is Monopoly?
From 1918 to 1919, this disease infected an estimated 500 million people globally. This amounted to about 33% of the world’s population at the time. In addition, the it killed about 50 million people. About 675,000 of the deaths were in the U.S.
What is the Spanish Flu?
In summary, music notation as we use it today was invented in Europe around this time by an Italian monk named Guido d'Arezzo. He invented the lined staff to depict musical notes and named the pitch sounds. Other music symbols give further information on how to play a piece of music.
what is 1000 AD?
This is the oldest playable board game in the world, originating around 4,600 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia. The rules are that – two players compete to race their pieces from one end of the board to the other. The central squares were also used for fortune telling.
What is the Royal Game of Ur?
This pandemic (1981-present day) has taken the lives of around 35 million people since its discovery in 1981. The causative virus is likely zoonotic in origin and thought to have evolved from an African chimpanzee virus. Today, 40 million people are infected globally
What is AIDS?
What is HIV?
Archaeologists have found this pre-historic instrument carved from cave bear bones, and it can still be played today. this instrument was found in the cave of Divje Babe in Slovenia, is thought to date back at least 50,000 years, making it the oldest known musical instrument in the world
What is the Cave flute?
or what is a flute?
First played during the Qing dynasty in China (1644–1912), This is a strategy-based game played using tiles. They are traditionally decorated with Chinese characters, bamboo branches and dots. Four players draw and discard tiles to complete their hand. The aim of the game is to get all 14 of your tiles into four sets and one pair.
What is Mahjong?
During the 19th century, This disease spread across the world from its original reservoir in the Ganges delta in India. Six subsequent pandemics killed millions of people across all continents. The current (seventh) pandemic started in South Asia in 1961, reached Africa in 1971 and the Americas in 1991. it is is now endemic in many countries.
What is Cholera?