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World History Flashcards

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He played the lyre while Rome burned

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Who is Nero?

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2019 Mexican president

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Who is Lopez Obrador?

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Cuban defense minister from 1959 to 2006, then became acting president

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Who is Raul Castro?

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Venezuelan president from 1999 to 2013

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Who is Hugo Chavez?

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Argentinian president from 1913 to 1945

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Who is Juan Peron?

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Afghanistan president from 2002 to 2014

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Who is Hamid Karzai

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Killed by the Bolsheviks in 1918

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Who is Nicholas II?

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The Persian empire fell to him in the 330s B.C.

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Who is Alexander the Great?

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Sultan took Belgrade in 1521

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Who is Suleiman?

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Title claimed by Ottoman sultans since the 16th c.

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What is caliph?

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Came to power in 1923 after Turkey’s sultanate was abolished

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Who is Ataturk

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Combatants in the Kalmar War (1611 - 1613)

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What are Denmark and Sweden?

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Type of Marriage without ceremony banned in England in 1753 by Lord Hardwicke

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What is common law marriage?

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Title earned by Henry VII in 1312 when he invaded Rome

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What is Holy Roman Emperor?

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Helped by Lord Byron, in 1830 it became the first of the Ottoman Empire’s subject nations to achieve independence

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What is Greece?

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Inventor of the radio

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Who is Marconi?

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Elizabeth Kenny came up with a treatment for this disease

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What is Polio?

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English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing; came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople.

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Who is Florence Nightengale?

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German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States.

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Who is Wernher von Braun?

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World’s first under-ocean tunnel

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What is Kanmon Tunnel?

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British businessman established steamship line to carry royal mail to America

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Who is Samuel Cunard?

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Last Plantagenet king of England

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Who is Richard III?

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Was Pope when the Holy Roman Empire sacked Rome in 1527

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Who is Clement VII?

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Isabella d’Este ruled this city

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What is Mantua?

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Paris Palace comissioned by a 16th century queen (gone now but gardens remain)

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What are the Tuileries?

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Elizabeth II’s only daughter

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Who is Anne?

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27
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Military dictator to rule Uganda from 1971 to 1979

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Who is Idi Amin?

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Country with Rodrigo Duterte as president

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What is The Phillippines?

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This policy, Russian for “Openness”, was begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985

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What is Glastnoust?

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Harold II was vanquished by this King at the 1066 Battle of Hastings

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Who is William the Conqueror?

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From 1840 to 1860 this island of 8 million sent 1.7 million immigrants to the United States

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What is Ireland?

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In Britain, a pound equaled 20 shillings; this gold coin named for a region of Africa equaled 21 shillings

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What is Guinea?

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Millennia ago Eratosthenes calculated this at 252,000 stadia, thought to equal about 25,000 miles

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What is the Circumfrence of Earth?

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In 1960 Geoffrey Fisher, the 99th man in this post, became the first modern one to visit the Vatican

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What is Archbishop of Canterbury?

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The red guard were the vanguard of this decade-long Chinese revolution

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What is the cultural revolution?

36
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World leader who recaptured Jerusalem from the Christiands and held off Richard Lionheart’s attempts to win it back

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Who is Saladin?

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Hamburg and Lubeck were 2 of the first cities allied in this medieval mercantile league

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What is the Hanseatic League?

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2 cities leading the opposing sects of Christianity in the great schism of 1054

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What are Rome and Constantinople?

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According to legend, a medieval sorceress name Libuse founded this Czech capital around the 8th century

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What is Prague?

40
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In 1963 he studied at Baghdad Law College; he then spent a few years in prison but was in power soon after

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Who is Hussein?

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On Jan. 18, 1943 Mordecai Anielewicz led the uprising in this capital against German troops trying to ship Jews to the Treblinka death camp

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What is Warsaw?

42
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The first historical woman on a U.S. coin was this 15th century Spanish queen

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Who is Isabella?

43
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In 1949 Belgium was a founding member of this military organization that is headquartered in Brussels today

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What is NATO?

44
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Found in 1982, a ship that sank off turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy

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What is bronze?

45
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Stone tools from Gabon have been dated to 850,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of humans in this African river basin

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What is the Congo River?

46
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In 1932 & ‘33 Stalin decimated Ukraine by exporting most of its grain, bringing on the Holodomor, or “Great” this

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What is famine?

47
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In 1794 a Paris factory for this military stuff exploded, devastating what’s now the 15th arrondissement

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What is gunpowder?

48
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In 1258 Baghdad made the mistake of resisting these invaders who promptly sacked the city & slaughtered its inhabitants

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Who are the Mongols?

49
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The Vatican Apostolic (formerly “Secret”) archives hold a 200’ scroll recording the 14th century trial of these knights

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Who are the Knights Templar?

50
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The National Library of Israel has an archive on this unjustly accused French officer, including his marriage contract

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Who is Dreyfus?

51
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The Vassiliev Notebooks of information from Soviet archives show that yes, this NYC-born man executed in 1953 was an atom spy

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Who is Rosenberg?

52
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In 1840 the Unicorn became this British line’s first ship to set sail; its later ships included the Queen Mary & QE2

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What is the Cunard line?

53
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Hours before her death in 1587, this queen wrote, “I am to be executed like a criminal at eight in the morning”

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Who is Mary, Queen of Scots?

54
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In the 1070s this monarch who’d been in power only a short while ordered the building of the Tower of London

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Who is William the Conqueror?

55
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In 1991 the this union of 15 republics was no more

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What is the U.S.S.R.

56
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A “rear column” of depraved upper-class twits tagged along with Henry Stanley to explore this river’s basin in 1887

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What is the Congo?

57
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Around 1895 these brothers devised an early motion picture camera & projector they called the Cinematographe

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Who are the Lumiêre brothers?

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An English rebel called Hereward the Wake led resistance to this Norman king even after the conquest

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Who is William the Conqueror?

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This 231-foot-long strip of linen is an important source of knowledge about the conquest

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What is the Bayeux tapestry?

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At the decisive Battle of Hastings, the Normans had many more bowmen than the English, & one of them may have hit this king in the eye

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Who is Harold II?

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Though large & powerful, this South American empire flourished for only about 100 years until the Spanish conquered it in 1532

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Who are the Inca?

62
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country with the Sandinista revolution (1979)

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What is Nicaragua?

63
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This 19th c. German invented an engine that, unlike gasoline engines, achieves ignition with no external spark

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Who is Rudolph Diesel?

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Tom Lehrer sang, “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department, says” this man

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Who is Wernher von Braun?

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April: this cosmonaut makes history when he takes Vostok 1 about 200 miles above the Earth

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Who is Yuri Gagarin?

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In 2011, 6 years after a comprehensive peace agreement, this African country came to be

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What is South Sudan?

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March: with other nations disapproving of apartheid, South Africa withdraws from this body rooted in the British Empire

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What is the British Commonwealth?

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On August 15, 2004 this Venezuelan president won a recall election, garnering 59% of the vote

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Who is Hugo Chavez?

69
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In 1653 King Louis XIV performed as this Greco-Roman god in the ballet “de la Nuit”

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Who is Apollo?

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Render unto us the name of this Caesar whose reign ended in 37 A.D. & was followed by Caligula’s

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Who is Tiberius?

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Going by the reign of the person it’s named for, this age of history lasted from 1837 to 1901

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What is the Victorian age?

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Around 10,000 B.C. the paleolithic phase of this age ended in Europe

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What is the stone age?

73
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Great wealth was held by but a few while large numbers of people lived in poverty in this 1800s “Age” with a novel name

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What is the gilded age?

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The Iron Age in Britain began around 800 B.C. & ended with the invasion of this empire about 800 years later

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What is the Roman empire?

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Large glaciers on Asia, Europe & North America began forming about 2.6 million years ago, kicking off this epoch of the Ice Age

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What is Pliestocene?

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In 1163 Pope Alexander III laid the cornerstone for this iconic Paris cathedral that would take 200 years to complete

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What is Notre Dame?

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AIRLINE TRAVEL: In 2003 this airline agreed to buy KLM, creating Europe’s largest airline

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What is Air France?

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THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION: With Mary I’s accession in 1553 he ran to Geneva; he returned in 1559 & reformed the Church of Scotland

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Who is John Knox?

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