History Flashcards
Steppe-folk who fought for Ukraine and Russia (often mounted) in exchange for special privileges
Who are the cossacks?
Founding father and first president of Republic of Turkey until death (1923-1938)
Who is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?
“Father of Medicine,” circa 460-370 BC
Who is Hippocrates?
Paul Revere would put one in the tower if by land, two if by sea
What are lanterns?
Nixon, 1969 - “For years, politicians have promised the ______. I’m the first one to be able to deliver it.”
What is the moon?
Politician who ran ads in the 1920s promising “A chicken for every pot”
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Republican candidate in 1964 that promised to end the draft, “The military forces need trained volunteers.”
Who is Barry Goldwater?
Political party that lasted from 1848 to 1854 promising “free speech, free labor, and free men”
What is the free-soil party?
Man who delivered Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, and the youngest person in U.S. history to receive an electoral vote for president
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This number didn’t make its trip to Europe until 1200 or so
What is zero?
Device used by romans for calculations
What is an abacus?
House of Representatives (R) 1959-1967, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Washington State 1989-1997, and inventor of pickleball in 1965
Who is Joel Pritchard?
Used by the ancient egyptians during mummification to store viscera for their deceased owner
What are canopic jars?
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, key figure of Rastafari, claimed lineage to King Solomon
Who is Haile Selassie?
Street in Middle Ages Rome used for horse racing
What is Via del Corso?
Country where 33 workers were trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine in 2010
What is Chile?
In legend, he’s the Norseman that settled in Novgorod in 862 and founded Russia
Who is Rurik?
Part of the medieval procedure of trial by ordeal, now trial by ordeal just means anything painful endured…talk about soft
What is trial by fire and by water?
The lieutenant of the 1096 monk Peter the Hermit in the People’s Crusade…he was actually far from poor
Who is Walter the Penniless?
“Unsinkable” American socialite and philanthropist aboard lifeboat no.6 in 1912
Who is Margaret Brown?
This talented musician was born in Barnwell, South Carolina in 1933 and died December 25, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia
Who is James Brown?
This war 1537 war in Poland was a rebellion against Sigismund I the Old…fowl casualties occurred
What is Wojna kokosza (Chicken War)?
The Three Sisters, which benefit from companion planting, that served as the main agricultural crops of various Indigenous North Americans
What are beans, corn, and squash?
Estimates of the deaths of this incident which occurred December, 1928 in Colombia range from 47 to 2000
What is the Banana Massacre?
Bloodiest day in American History
What is the Battle of Antietam? (September 17, 1862)
Military leader of Panama 1968 until death in 1981, he was never the President, but did hold titles such as “Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution”
Who is Omar Torrijos?
Treaties signed in 1977 that ended U.S. control of the Panama Canal in 1999, which it had held since 1903
What are the Torrijos-Carter treaties?
American TV crime drama series created and written by David Simon, with writing help from Ed Burns, set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland
What is The Wire?
11th Century Persian polymath and poet born in Nishapur under the Seljuk Empire, 1048
Who is Omar Khayyam?
First European to reach India by sea May 20, 1498
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The official who presided over the trial of Jesus and ordered his crucifixion
Who is Pontius Pilate?
“The Hanging Judge” that became notable under the reign of King James II as Lord Chancellor 1685-1688, he died in the Tower of London during the Glorious Revolution
Who is George Jeffreys?
American outlaw queen born February 5, 1848 in Carthage, Missouri whose 1889 murder in Indian Territory remains unsolved
Who is Belle Star?
Commissioned in 1631 by Emperor Shah Jahan to house his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, believed to be completed in 1653
What is the Taj Mahal?
The first Holy Roman Emperor, he became King of the Franks Following his father’s death in 768
Who is Charlemagne?
The 2 wonders of the world that were statues
What are the Colossus of Rhodes or the Statue of Zeus at Olympia?
These ancient manuscript fragments were discovered 1947 in the Qumran caves
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
River where James W. Marshall discovered gold in 1848, resulting in the 49er rush that helped California become a state, it’s Sacramento’s main source of drinking water today
What is the American river?
He served as Cuba’s minister of defense from 1959-2008 and served as President 2006-2018
Who is Raul Castro?
He served as President of Venezuela from 2002 to death in 2013
Who is Hugo Chavez?
Argentina’s president from 1946-1955 when he was overthrown, and then again from 1973-1974
Who is Juan Peron?
Argentinian woman known for being a political activist and philanthropist that served as the first lady of Argentina from June 1946 to her death in 1952 from cervical cancer
Who is Eva Peron (Evita)?
Battle fought 18 June 1815, the French (under Napolean) were defeated by Wellington’s Army and Prussian Field Marshal Blucher
What is Waterloo?
Holds the record for longest tenure as Speaker of the House of Representatives (17 years)
Who is Sam Rayburn?
