World History Flashcards
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C.
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an elephant
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This ancient city grew powerful in part because the Tiber provides a convenient route to the sea 15 miles away
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Rome
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1871 the Treaty of Frankfurt ended the war between France & this German state, led by Bismarck
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Prussia
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Cairo square was the heart of the 18 days of protest that toppled Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011
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Tarir Square
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Zinoviev & Pyatakov were 2 victims of the 1930s proceedings called these trials due to their being public
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show trials
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1819 Sir Stamford Raffles of this company established a post at Singapore Harbor for Britain
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the British East India Company
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Traditionally said to be founded in 421, this city was later built up on islands in a lagoon by refugees from invading Lombards
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Venice
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 896 Prince Arpad led the Magyar people over the Carpathians & entered this land, their permanent home
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Hungary
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$3000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Effective January 1, 1948, Italy’s new constitution outlawed this political party
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the Fascist Party
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1816 Shaka became leader of this African people & embarked on a program of conquest
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Zulu
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Richard I negotiated a treaty with this Saracen, allowing Christian pilgrims to enter Jerusalem freely
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Saladin
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1669 this loose confederation of North German cities met for the last time
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the Hanseatic League
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After the Royal Family fled to this country in 1807, it became the only one in South America from which a European country was ruled
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Brazil
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 3rd century B.C., during the reign of Shih Huang Ti, at least 1 million slaves were used to build this
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the Great Wall
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Columbus was the first European to reach S. America, landing at the mouth of the Orinoco in what’s now this country
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Venezuela
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Overthrown by the revolution of 9 Thermidor, he died on the guillotine, ending the Reign of Terror
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Robespierre
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president
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the Philippines
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the Battle of Lewes in 1264, this king & his son Edward were defeated & captured by Simon de Montfort
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Henry III
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans
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Attila
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1488 this king of Spain sent 100 Moorish slaves to Pope Innocent VIII who gave them as gifts to Cardinals
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Ferdinand
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| She died at Fontevrault in 1204, having survived 2 husbands: Louis VII & Henry II
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Once known as the Gold Coast, it was the first member of the Commonwealth of Nations governed by Black Africans
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Ghana
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This founder of the Mughal Dynasty gained control of Delhi & Agra after victory in the 1526 Battle of Panipat
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Babur
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1770 Capt. James Cook became the first European to sight Australia’s fertile east coast, which he named “New” this
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South Wales
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Ginza in Tokyo.) Not much keeps the spirit of Tokyo down; this event in 1923 basically destroyed the city, but it was completely rebuilt in 1930
an earthquake
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 1540s John Calvin made this Swiss city a center of Protestant might
Geneva
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$5000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| By 1833 Spain had lost all of its empire in the New World except Cuba & this island; 65 years later, it lost those, too
Puerto Rico
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the urging of this general now on the 5-peso note, Argentina declared its independence from Spain July 9, 1816
(Jose de) San Martin
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Have you heard the latest buzz? The Mayans domesticated this native insect
the bee
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name
Jason
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1950, 2 years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea
Kim Il-sung
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew narrates from Lima, Peru.) The Plaza Mayor, Lima's main square since colonial days, was used for executions during the time of this tribunal that began in Peru around 1568
the Inquisition
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 601 the Lombards destroyed this Italian city, home to a shrewish Kate, but it made a quick comeback
Padua
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1271 he left Venice for the Far East with his father & uncle; 24 years later, he finally made it back home
Marco Polo
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Feb. 18, 2008 the U.S. recognized this new Balkan state
Kosovo
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a 1587 edict, Boris Godunov bound these to the land they worked on by forbidding their trade
serfs
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Cities like Copan thrived in this Mesoamerican civilization's Classic Period, until about 900
the Maya
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| J.J. Dessalines, who bore scars from his master's whip, wanted to kill all whites on his island, now called this
Hispaniola
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| One of history's largest refugee migrations, about 15 million people, took place 1947-1951 between these 2 countries
Pakistan & India
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Geneva Accords of 1954 split this SE Asian country in 2 at 17 degrees North latitude
Vietnam
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule
Spartacus
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Called the "Sick Man of Europe" in the early 20th century, this empire collapsed just after WWI
the Ottoman Empire
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London
Wilhelmina
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1923 France & Belgium occupied this German industrial region named for a Rhine tributary
the Ruhr
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Beginning in 1932 all this country's kings have been the country's founder or his sons
Saudi Arabia
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 843 Treaty of Verdun divided his empire; grandson Louis II received lands east of the Rhine River
Charlemagne
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 4,500 years ago, the bronze age Minoan civilization emerged on this Mediterranean island
Crete
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought this Dutchman to power as king of England, Scotland, & Ireland
William of Orange
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 5th century B.C., this Greek historian wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete the Great Pyramid
Herodotus
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It's been estimated that this grand inquisitor put to death about 2,000 people during his term of office, 1483-1498
(Tomás de) Torquemada
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493
discovery of the New World
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1071 the Seljuk Turks, who practiced this religion, defeated the Byzantine Army at the Battle of Manzikert
Islam
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This King of Aragon freed the Catalan Serfs in 1486 & captured Granada in 1492
King Ferdinand
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Now in Poland, in 1361 this shipbuilding city became a member of the Hanseatic League
Gdansk
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & nothwestern India
the Indus
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| An economic crisis forced this Indonesian leader to resign on May 21, 1998, ending 32 years of autocratic rule
Suharto
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The allies began the invasion of Italy on July 10, 1943 by landing on this island
Sicily
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1606, Willem Janszoon landed on Cape York Peninsula, becoming the 1st European to visit this continent
Australia
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1885 this country's Leopold II established the Congo Free State as his own personal property
Belgium
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of this "dark" Serbian terrorist group
the Black Hand
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Pragmatic Sanction gave this Holy Roman Empress the legal right to inherit her father's territories
Maria Teresa
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In July 1962 this Soviet leader began building missile sites in Cuba; in October, the U.S. noticed them
Khrushchev
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1200 Africa's Shona people had a mighty city called "Great" this, adopted in 1979 as Rhodesia's new name
Zimbabwe
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| More than a million died in this country's civil war that ended with the death of Carranza in 1920
Mexico
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety would try people & execute them by this method all in the same day
the guillotine
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The city of Leipzig, now in this country, was the site of an 1813 battle called the greatest clash of arms before WWI
Germany
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the first major charity event of its kind, a concert was held Aug. 1, 1971 to raise money for this country
Bangladesh
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ruling from 1764 to 1795, Stanislaus II was the last king of this country
Poland
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years
Japan
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 1939-1940 "Winter War", the vast Soviet war machine was unleashed against this smaller country
Finland
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$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This person was the reigning monarch of Great Britain when the U.S. national anthem was written
George III
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 284 B.C. Zenodotus of Ephesus became the first superintendant of this city's library
Alexandria
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This "Great" Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf
Alfred
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 500 B.C. this Persian king built Persepolis; parts of the city's audience hall & palace are still standing
Darius the Great
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1402 Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I was captured in the Battle of Ankara by this conqueror from Samarkand
Tamerlane
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| For defeating Hannibal in the Battle of Zama, ending the Second Punic War, Scipio was granted this Latin surname
Africanus
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938
Germany
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country
Nicaragua
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Irgun was a secret underground organization fighting to establish this nation
Israel
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A record of all the land in England, this "Book" was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085
The Domesday Book
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$1800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| World leaders met at the Congress of this city in 1815 to decide the fate of Europe after Napoleon's defeat
Vienna
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This pair fled the Battle of Actium soon after fighting began, & their forces surrendered to Marcus Agrippa
Antony and Cleopatra
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 981 this explorer was banned from Iceland for 3 years for killing a neighbor in a feud
Erik the Red
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| From Aug. 19 to 21, 1991, this leader was placed under house arrest during an attempted coup by hardliners
(Mikhail) Gorbachev
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1969 West Irians voted to remain a part of this nation, & the U.N. recognized its control of Irian Jaya
Indonesia
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The last of Henry VIII's wives to be beheaded, she was accused of adultery & 2 of her lovers were beheaded as well
Catherine Howard
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the first Punic War, Rome conquered Corsica, Sardinia & this largest island of the Mediterranean
Sicily
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At a 1943 meeting in this N. African city, FDR & Churchill agreed to an invasion of "the soft underbelly of the Axis"
Casablanca
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$4600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On August 1, 1798 Admiral Nelson delivered a fatal blow to the French fleet near the Rosetta mouth of this river
the Nile
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1961 this Asian country invaded the small colonies of Daman, Diu & Goa, & defeated the Portuguese
India
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1530 a statement of faith, or "confession", was issued from this German city named for a Roman Emperor
Augsburg
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Toledo military academy class of 1910 grad who went on to become a dictator
Francisco Franco
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Mindon, as emperor of this country, set up a new capital in 1857 at Mandalay
Burma
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$4800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| His 5 classics were canonized during the Han Dynasty
Confucius
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Edmund "Crouchback" founded this branch of the Plantagenets that didn't get on well with the Yorks
the Lancasters
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1825, the Decembrists attempted a coup in this country--didn't work
Russia
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1472 this island group known for its pony & sheepdog was annexed to Scotland
Shetland Islands
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Visigoth Empire went out of business in 711 when it was defeated by this north African group in Spain
Moors
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$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Term for the period in England from 1760 to 1840 during which steam power & big factories came into vogue
Industrial Revolution
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$1600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This doctor lit up China as its provisional president in 1911
Sun Yat-sen
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$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| 4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period
Crete
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch...
Alexander the Great
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster
Great Fire of London
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| While trying to figure out why there were 2 of these, the 1409 Council of Pisa elected a third one
Popes
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1864 the first Red Cross conference was convened in this city
Geneva, Switzerland
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In February 1961 violence erupted in this Portuguese possession in west Africa
Angola
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Martin Behaim made the world's first known globe in this year when some say the world was proved round
1492
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| An 1888 treaty said this canal was neutral & would remain open even during a war
Suez Canal
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$700 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The day America declared its independence, this person was on the throne of Russia
Catherine the Great
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Sostratus of Cnidus built this city's famous lighthouse in the early 3rd century B.C.
Alexandria
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This monk who died in 735 got the info for his history of England through correspondence
Venerable Bede
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This country's Shang dynasty arose in the 1700s B.C. along the Yellow River
China
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This explorer sailed to North America on 3 different ships: the Hopewell, Half Moon & Discovery
Henry Hudson
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In June 1955 the Argentine navy staged an unsuccessful revolt against this dictator
Juan Peron
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Among those to reach this fabled African outpost in the 19th century were Rene Caillie & Gordon Laing
Timbuktu
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Cuban Missile Crisis & the 1967 Arab-Israeli War occurred while he served as U.N. Secretary-General
U Thant
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| For most of the 15th century this Indian empire ruled over what's now Mexico
Aztec Empire
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| No one really knows what this French girl, who saved Orleans, looked like; maybe like Leelee Sobieski or Milla Jovovich
Joan of Arc
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire
Roman Empire
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Queen Victoria's prime minister 2nd Viscount Melbourne had a city in this country named for him in 1837
Australia
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Catherine of Aragon, a daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, married this British king
Henry VIII
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This system of ranking social orders was developed by the Aryans in ancient India
the caste system
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Bartolomeu Dias constructed & outfitted 4 ships for this man's 1497-1498 voyage from Lisbon to India
Vasco da Gama
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During his 46-year reign, this 18th c. king doubled the size of Brandenburg-Prussia
Frederick the Great
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Many mark the beginning of the French nation with the crowning of this king in 987
Hugh Capet
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 1650 B.C. these people made their capital at Hattusas in central Anatolia in what is now Turkey
the Hittites
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789
the Bastille
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867
Japan
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle
Marco Polo
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her
Victoria
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| 1 of the 3 former Soviet satellites that joined NATO in 1999
(1 of 3) Czech Republic, Hungary, or Poland
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ferdinand & Isabella promised to make him "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" if he was successful in his 1492 voyage
Christopher Columbus
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1455 Johann Fust won a judgment against this printer & took the type used to print his famous Bible
Johannes Gutenberg
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1795 Austria, Prussia & Russia partitioned this country, eliminating its existence
Poland
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the death of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661, this French king declared that he would serve as his own prime minister
Louis XIV
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This ancient north African city-state was protected by a high wall about 23 miles in length
Carthage
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929
Admiral Richard Byrd
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621
Tower of London
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962
Algeria
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea
Catherine the Great
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands
Vasco da Gama
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| World War II began in Europe in this decade when Nazi troops invaded Poland
the 1930s (1939)
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| This "Rough Rider" was FDR's uncle by marriage as well as his cousin
Theodore Roosevelt
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| From ancient times until 1935, Iran was known by this name
Persia
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| These Asiatic nomads were led by Attila from 434 to 453 A.D.
the Huns
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY 101 ||| Born in 1819, she lived until 1901, the last 64 years as queen
Queen Victoria
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It took about 20 minutes for this British liner to sink after it was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915
Lusitania
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Winston Churchill was imprisoned in Pretoria during this war but made a daring escape in 1899
The Boer War
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 982 he sailed from Iceland to Greenland with his household & livestock
Eric the Red
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1814 & 1815 Napoleon ruled this island as a principality
Elba
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The U.N. General Assembly held its first meeting on January 10, 1946 in this European capital
London
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During the Tang dynasty, 618 to 907, Chang'an in this country was the most populous city in the world
China
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Grimaldi family first gained control of this country in 1297
Monaco
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1944 this island country severed all its formal ties with Denmark & became a republic
Iceland
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In December 1812 this Venezuelan wrote the "Cartagena Manifesto", a famous essay on independence
Simon Bolivar
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1199 this crusader king of England was mortally wounded while besieging the castle of Chalus
Richard the Lionhearted
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1492 he chartered the Santa Maria from Juan de la Cosa, who became its sailing master
Christopher Columbus
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Until abolished in 404 A.D., gladiatorial games had been held at this Rome site for over 300 years
The Colosseum
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On April 10, 1974 she resigned as Israel's prime minister but served as a caretaker until June
Golda Meir
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land
James Cook
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This 16-year-old "Black Prince" led his men to victory at the battle of Crecy in August 1346
Edward
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Implicated in a plot to kill Hitler, this "Desert Fox" committed suicide rather than stand trial
Erwin Rommel
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Feb. 12, 1912, the last emperor of this dynasty abdicated, ending more than 3,000 years of Chinese monarchy
Manchu
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1981 this country formally annexed the Golan Heights, land it had held militarily since 1967
Israel
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Magellan visited these islands in 1521; MacArthur visited them in 1942, then returned in 1944
Philippines
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After a 22-year reign, this country's Queen Christina abdicated June 6, 1654
Sweden
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$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1842 Treaty of Nanking ended the first of these "drug" wars
Opium Wars
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$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1959 a disgruntled Buddhist monk assassinated this country's PM Solomon Bandaranaike
Ceylon/Sri Lanka
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1934 & 1935 this Chinese Communist leader led the Red Army on the "Long March"
Mao Tse-tung
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1826 this Low Country established its first tea plantations on Java
The Netherlands (Holland)
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$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Before the Battle of Trafalgar, he told his fleet, "England expects every man will do his duty"
Lord Nelson
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Stephen I, the son of a Magyar prince, became king of this country in 1000 A.D.
Hungary
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1920 the League of Nations gave this country a mandate to administer the territory of Namibia
South Africa
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$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Ferdinand VII died in 1833, his 3-year-old daughter Isabella II ascended this country's throne
Spain
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1191 this "Lion-Hearted" king of England captured Cyprus & Acre during the Crusades
Richard I
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$900 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This dictator's last battle was his defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C.
Julius Caesar
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1584 William I of Orange was assassinated in this Dutch city known for its blue & white pottery
Delft
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$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This battleship on which the WWII Japanese surrender terms were signed saw combat during the Gulf War
U.S.S. Missouri
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$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1953 Ibn Saud organized this country's first cabinet to modernize the government
Saudi Arabia
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$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During the Spanish Civil War, this Fascist Party founder sent troops to aid General Francisco Franco
Benito Mussolini
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$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In November 1980 Poland's Communist Party officially recognized this trade union
Solidarity
182
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Later the namesake of an African country, he served as prime minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896
Cecil Rhodes
183
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Aristotle called him the "Savior of his country and the ideal lawgiver"
Solon
184
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493
Christopher Columbus
185
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On Sept. 3, 1996 the U.S. launched cruise missiles against this country for attacking Kurd territory
Iraq
186
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Last name of the brothers who made an overland trek in the 1260s from Bukhara, Uzbekistan to China
Polo
187
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This personal guard of Roman emperors consisted of 9 cohorts of 1,000 soldiers each
Praetorian Guard
188
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1992 Pres. Alberto Fujimori suspended this country's constitution & dissolved the legislature
Peru
189
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| An armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom in July 1953
The Korean War
190
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1429, while leading an attack on Paris, she was wounded by an arrow
Joan of Arc
191
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A Greek military coup in 1974 briefly deposed Archbishop Makarios, president of this island nation
Cyprus
192
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A phase of the Napoleonic Wars, The Peninsular War, 1808-1814, was fought on this peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
193
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1250 the Mamelukes, originally slaves, seized control of this African country & ruled until 1517
Egypt
194
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1982 he became the first Pope in modern history to visit Sicily
Pope John Paul II
195
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ahmose I, who reigned circa 1554-1525 B.C., founded this country's 18th dynasty
Egypt
196
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This queen of the Netherlands married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1901
Wilhelmina
197
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1828 Brazil & Argentina recognized this neighboring country as an independent republic
Uruguay
198
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria
Carlotta
199
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In April 1796 this French officer defeated the Sardinians at Mondovi, gaining Savoy & Nice for France
Napoleon Bonaparte
200
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1517 Cordova became the first Spaniard to reach Mexico when he landed on this east coast peninsula
Yucatan Peninsula
201
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a 1797 Canary Islands battle, this British naval hero's right arm was wounded & later amputated
Lord Nelson
202
$1400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On July 22, 1969 he designated Juan Carlos as his successor in Spain
Francisco Franco
203
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 490 B.C. this Persian king sent an army into Greece but it was defeated at the Battle of Marathon
Darius
204
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Wladyslaw Gomulka was first secretary of this country's Communist party from 1956-1970
Poland
205
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1517 the Ottoman Turks took this country & put a pasha in power; today a Mubarak rules
Egypt
206
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg
Frederick the Great
207
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Russian czar spent the last few years of his life composing a list of people he had murdered
Ivan the Terrible
208
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland
Ponce de Leon
209
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This country's King Louis IV was nicknamed "Louis From Overseas" because he was raised in England
France
210
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645
Canterbury
211
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The first of this Mongol conqueror's many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child
Genghis Khan
212
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony
Caligula
213
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650
Oman
214
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On August 8, 1588, the English defeated this fleet of Philip II at the Battle of Gravelines
the Armada
215
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This "Great" Russian czar's 43-year reign, 1682-1725, was the longest in the Romanov line
Peter the Great
216
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1292 this family of Venetian explorers escorted a Mongol princess to Persia
the Polos
217
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the mid-1500s Akbar the Great, son of Humayun, ruler of Delhi, reigned over this empire in India
the Mogul Empire
218
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In October 1942 General Bernard Montgomery defeated the Germans at this Egyptian city
El Alamein
219
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1785 this future French emperor graduated from military school in Paris, 42nd in his class of 58
Napoleon
220
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of England's King John
The Magna Carta
221
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1519 he & his men landed at Tabasco & began the Spanish conquest of Mexico
Cortes
222
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1936 Italy conquered this Ethiopian capital & Haile Selassie fled to Great Britain
Addis Ababa
223
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In this mid-1930s this U.S. naval officer chartered the Edsel Ford mountains in Antarctica
(Admiral) Byrd
224
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemen's Land
Tasmania
225
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Chinese plan called the Great Leap Forward was initiated by this leader in 1958
Mao Tse-tung
226
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1986 this dictator fled Haiti, ending 28 years of rule by his family
Baby Doc Duvalier
227
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 405 B.C. Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in this war
the Peloponnesian War
228
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic coast, became the headquarters of this league
the Hanseatic League
229
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1912 it was the largest & most luxurious ship ever built; it sank on its 1st voyage
Titanic
230
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Bayeux Tapestry is a graphic representation of this man's conquest of England
William the Conqueror
231
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Ruling from 1792-1750 B.C., he had the laws of Babylon carved into an 8' high block of stone
Hammurabi
232
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 404 B.C., this city surrendered, ending the 27-year-long Peloponnesian War
Athens
233
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It's said the epitaph on Cyrus the Great's tomb called him the founder of this empire
Persian Empire
234
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 447 he & his band of Huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean & Black Seas
Attila
235
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1971 this country's constitution set up 3 cultural regions: Flanders, Wallonia, & Brussels
Belgium
236
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1910 this British scholar & army officer explored Syria on foot
Lawrence
237
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| From 1849 to 1861, he ruled the kingdom of Sardinia
Victor Emmanuel
238
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Mungo Park disappeared in 1806 while exploring this west African river
Niger
239
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The history of the Tower of London goes back to the fortress built by this conqueror
William The Conqueror
240
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1633 he was brought before the Inquisition for believing the doctrine of the Earth moving around the sun
Galileo
241
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army of 614,000 invaded this country; months later only 40,000 were left
Russia
242
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| German for "empire", the first one was the Holy Roman Empire; the second was founded in 1871
Reich
243
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Athenian's code was so strict, you could be executed for stealing a cabbage
Draco
244
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 969 the Fatimids conquered Egypt & made this city a center of the Muslim world
Cairo
245
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1776 Spain created a colony called the Viceroyalty of the Rio De La Plata on this continent
South America
246
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1960 Prince Norodom Sihanouk became leader of this country, but declined the title of king
Cambodia
247
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1615 this explorer who has a large island & bay named for him searched for the Northwest Passage
William Baffin
248
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1968 Marcello Caetano replaced this longtime dictator as ruler of Portugal
Antonio de Salazar
249
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1870 this country's Isabella II abdicated in favor of her son
Spain
250
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1975 Khalid succeeded this man, assassinated by a nephew, as king of Saudi Arabia
King Faisal
251
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After succeeding Tiberius, this emperor had Tiberius' grandson executed
Caligula
252
$1111 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| For his independence of Soviet influence, Imre Nagy was removed as this country's premier in 1955
Hungary
253
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1191, Berengaria married this king of England in Limassol, Cyprus
Richard the Lionheart
254
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of this country twice, in 1925 & 1932
Germany
255
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Before battle on Oct. 21, 1805, he signaled, "England expects that every man will do his duty"
Nelson
256
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1734 this city near Mount Vesuvius became the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Naples
257
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1943 this Chinese leader met with FDR & Winston Churchill at the Cairo conference
Chiang Kai-shek
258
$2900 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| At the Congress of Vienna, William I of the Netherlands traded Nassau for this Duchy
Luxembourg
259
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 220 this country's Han dynasty was overthrown, beginning the period of disunity
China
260
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1920 the League of Nations gave this neighboring country a mandate over the territory of Namibia
South Africa
261
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1025 Boleslaw I became this country's first king but died within the year
Poland
262
$2500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In July 1977 the military took over this nation & Gen. Zia ul-Haq became chief martial law administrator
Pakistan
263
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1579 the Union of Utrecht was formed with this prince of Orange as its leader
William of Orange
264
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| From June 1953 to November 1954 Mohammad Naguib & Gamal Abdel Nasser shared power in this country
Egypt
265
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Upon his death in 1725, this Russian czar's second wife, Catherine I, succeeded him
Peter I (Peter the Great)
266
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 241 B.C. the first of these wars ended soon after Rome defeated Carthage in a naval battle off Sicily
Punic Wars
267
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Inuit of Greenland called this associate of Robert Peary "mi palyuk", or "kind little Matthew"
Matthew Henson
268
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In January 1823 this son of an Irish immigrant resigned as Chile's supreme director
Bernardo O'Higgins
269
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Briefly, in 1945, Karl Doenitz succeeded this man as Fuhrer of Germany
Hitler
270
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Until a 1969 coup by Muammar al-Qaddafi, King Idris had ruled this country for 18 years
Libya
271
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1756 British soldiers were imprisoned by Indian troops in this 15' x 18' room
the Black Hole of Calcutta
272
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In the Korean War, U.N. forces captured this North Korean capital Ocrober 19, 1950
Pyongyang
273
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1066 he became the last Saxon king to rule England
Harold II
274
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This dominion was created by the British North America Act on July 1, 1867
Canada
275
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On May 9, 1946 this country's King Victor Emmanuel abdicated in favor of his son Umberto
Italy
276
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1763, as a result of this numerical war, Florida became a British possession
Seven Years' War
277
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1864 Austria & Prussia went to war with Denmark, winning Schleswig & this duchy
Holstein
278
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1832 Otto, a Bavarian prince, was named the first king of this Balkan country
Greece
279
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1963 this former British P.M. became an honorary citizen of the U.S. by an act of Congress
Winston Churchill
280
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He was the first president of Gran Colombia; after all , he helped liberate it
Simón Bolívar
281
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This French king was condemned in mid-January 1793 & was executed January 21
Louis XVI
282
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| On June 16, 1963 she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched 2 days earlier
(Valentina) Tereshkova
283
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by Germany as a result of this 1870-71 war
the Franco-Prussian War
284
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1981 Wojciech Jaruzelski established martial law in this country & outlawed Solidarity
Poland
285
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Great Britain was twice rejected for membership in this economic union; it became a member in 1973
the Common Market
286
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The middle class that arose in medieval society was called burgesses in England & this in France
the bourgeoisie
287
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Americans fought in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in this 1936-39 conflict
the Spanish Civil War
288
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Around 1400 Tsong-kha-pa founded the Yellow Hat order of this Tibetan form of Buddhism
Lamaism
289
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This building that opened May 1, 1931 remained the world's tallest until 1971
the Empire State Building
290
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Macedonian conqueror campaigned along the Indus River in 327-326 B.C.
Alexander the Great
291
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This German noble family traced its descent from the counts of Zollern
the Hohenzollerns
292
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1954 an agreement between these 2 countries ended the Trieste dispute
Italy & Yugoslavia
293
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Jerusalem was captured by this king of Babylon in 597 & 586 B.C.
Nebuchadnezzar
294
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Irish castle famous for its "stone" was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446
the Blarney
295
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1863 Napoleon III persuaded this Archduke to become Emperor of Mexico
Maximilian
296
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war
the Hundred Years' War
297
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1853 Turkey declared war on Russia, beginning this conflict
the Crimean War
298
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| European production of this fiber began after 2 monks smuggled some worms out of China c. 550
silk
299
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1929 the Serbo-Croat-Slovene kingdom changed its name to this
Yugoslavia
300
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1805 battle fought off this Spanish cape established British naval superiority for 100 years
Trafalgar
301
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Janos Kadar took power after this country's 1956 revolution & ruled it until 1988
Hungary
302
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| King Gustav III restored autocratic rule to this country in the 18th century
Sweden
303
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After his death on January 21, 1924, Stalin & Trotsky struggled for power in the USSR
Lenin
304
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1835, Sweden received Norway from this country
Denmark
305
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Signed in 1912, the Treaty of Fez established this African country as a French protectorate
Morocco
306
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Portuguese sailors off course in a 1543 storm became the 1st Europeans to land in this Asian island country
Japan
307
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Prussian ruler's invasion of Silesia in 1740 led to the War of the Austrian Succession
Frederick the Great
308
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The European recovery program following WWII was also called this, for its originator
the Marshall Plan
309
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1912 alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece & Montenegro was known as this league
the Balkan League
310
$700 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 3 major battles of this war were at Crecy, Poitiers & Agincourt
the Hundred Years' War
311
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After the king of Caria died in 353 B.C., his widow had this memorial built at Halicarnassus
the Mausoleum
312
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After oil was found there in 1932, this island nation became the Persian Gulf's first oil-rich state
Bahrain
313
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Near the end of the fifth century, the Japanese borrowed this nation's system of writing
China
314
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Alfonso I was proclaimed king in 1143, it became independent of Castilian & Moorish control
Portugal
315
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Prior to independence in 1917, Finland had been a grand Duchy of this country for 108 years
Russia
316
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1512 this king seized Navarre, completing the unification of what is now Spain
Ferdinand (II)
317
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During his 67-year reign, this pharaoh completed many projects, including the temple at Karnak
Ramses (the Great)
318
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Both Lord Protectors of Great Britain, Oliver & Richard had this last name
Cromwell
319
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Montreux Convention of 1936 recognized this country's right to fortify the Dardanelles
Turkey
320
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This liner was sunk by the submarine U-20 on May 7, 1915
Lusitania
321
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Former slave Jean-Jacque Dessalines ruled this country as emperor Jacque I from 1804-1806
Haiti
322
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| England's Henry V won this battle in France on St. Christan's Day in 1415
Agincourt
323
$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947
Pakistan & India
324
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Peter the Great abolished the aristocratic Boyar class in this country
Russia
325
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, was an illegitimate member of this family
the Medicis
326
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| During the Napoleonic Wars, the royal family of Portugal fled to this colony
Brazil
327
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This German-born archaeologist made a fortune in the Crimean War, which allowed him to look for Troy
(Heinrich) Schliemann
328
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| More than 1 million turned out for his funeral procession in the Philippines August 31, 1983
Benigno Aquino
329
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922
Benito Mussolini
330
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253
The Sorbonne
331
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917
Finland
332
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A reported attack on 2 U.S. destroyers in this gulf led to the passage of the 1964 resolution named for it
Gulf of Tonkin
333
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic
Poland
334
$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He became a nat'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s
Gen. Francisco Franco
335
$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| City that was the seat of government of the viceroyalty of New Spain
Mexico City
336
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This tribunal flourished in Spain for centuries until it was finally suppressed in 1834
The Spanish Inquisition
337
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| 4 days after this battle, Napoleon signed his 2nd -- & final -- abdication
Waterloo
338
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him
Rasputin
339
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Some 25 years before our Civil War, this country freed the slaves on Jamaica
Great Britain
340
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| It's widely believed that this great pharaoh is the one written about in the book of Exodus
Ramses II
341
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He completed vols. 2 & 3 of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital"
Friedrich Engels
342
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| After being expelled as editor of the Socialist "Avanti" in 1914, he founded his own fascist paper
Benito Mussolini
343
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When this conquistador arrived in Mexico in 1519, Aztecs believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl
Hernando Cortez
344
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This radical "club" led by Robespierre came to power in 1793 & began the Reign of Terror
The Jacobin Club
345
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Most of the fighting during this war in the 1850s took place near the Russian port of Sevastopol
The Crimean War
346
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1967 this country exploded its 1st H-bomb at its Lob Nor test site in Sinkiang province
(Red) China
347
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| A civil war in Paris during his youth convinced this king to build his palace at Versailles
Louis XIV
348
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Long the ruling party in this country, the PRI won the 1988 election by its lowest margin ever
Mexico
349
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1st great building of the Acropolis was this one built between 447-438 B.C.
The Parthenon
350
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a famous race, these 2 men reached the South Pole, 1 in December 1911, the other 5 weeks later
Amundsen & Scott
351
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| According to legend, he was a swineherd before he conquered the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
352
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, this country lost Norway to Sweden in 1814
Denmark
353
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| "Great" King of Prussia whose last words were "I am tired of ruling over slaves"
Frederick the Great/Frederick II
354
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| He had a wife named Cleopatra, a daughter named Cleopatra, and a famous son, Alexander the Great
Philip of Macedon/Philip II
355
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The Cuban missile crisis made this the tensest month of 1962
October
356
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| France's 1778 recognition of this nation's independence was a virtual declaration of war on Britain
USA
357
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Frederick II agreed to lead one of these for the pope, but due to an epidemic he didn't go and was excommunicated
a Crusade
358
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The congress held here hoped to restore Europe to the way it was before Napoleon
Vienna
359
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1570 Spain's Phillip II tried to put this queen on the English throne
Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots)
360
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This war was thought to be mythical until late 19th century excavations proved it really occurred
the Trojan War
361
$100 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In a 1918 treaty, this country gave up Ukraine but soon recovered it
Russia (or the Soviet Union)
362
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1929, the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats 8: Slovenes became known as this
Yugoslavia
363
$300 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The 1867 British North America Act united 3 colonies under this single name
Canada
364
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of these French Protestants fled to America
Huguenots
365
$500 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1835, many of them left Cape Colony & began their historic "Great Trek" to what's now the Transvaal
the Boers
366
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| The African nation Zimbabwe was formerly named for this Englishman
Cecil Rhodes
367
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Because of these law enforcement officers there, the Yukon gold rush was one of the most orderly in history
Mounties
368
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Sir Thomas Raffles founded this city on its island of the same name
Singapore
369
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1667, in exchange for New York, Britain gave this colony to the Dutch, which they kept until 1975
Suriname
370
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| This late 18th- early 19th-century French diplomat served at least seven different regimes
Talleyrand
371
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Effendi, bey, & pasha were titles of nobility in this country's Ottoman empire
Turkey
372
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| About 1000 times as many people attended this man's 1970 Cairo funeral as attended his successor's
Nasser
373
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1934-35, nationalist military pressure forced Mao to lead his "Red Army" on this 6000 mile trek
the long march
374
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1657, the English parliament suggested he become king, but he turned down the offer
Oliver Cromwell
375
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| His 1808 ousting of the king of Spain gave Latin American states the pretext to declare independence
Napoleon
376
$200 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Asia's population giant, finally admitted to U.N. in 1971
(The People's Republic of) China
377
$400 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Including, in 19th century, one quarter of world's land & people, the sun never set on it
the British Empire
378
$600 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Sinatra, Gifford & McGee or Germanic peoples who helped conquer Rome
the Franks
379
$800 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| Nicaraguan guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza
the Sandinistas
380
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1888, it was last country in W. Hemisphere to abolish slavery
Brazil
381
$None ||| Category: WORLD HISTORY ||| In 1804 this Caribbean country became 1st black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule
Haiti
