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31 Cards in this Set
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Christopher Columbus left Spain for the new world Friday 3, ______.
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Answer: 1492
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The construction of what Canal shortened the travel time of east to west coast travel by ship?
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Answer: The Panama Canal
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In 1773 the Tea Act was a driving force that caused the American colonist to protest against England. What was the name of this protest?
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Answer: Boston Tea Party
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The assasination of whom in June of 1914, lead to the beginning of the great wars to end all wars?
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Answer: Archduke Franz Ferinand
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The Greeks invented a new kind of warfare that was used all the way up thru the Roman empire. Name this important battle tactic invented by the Greeks.
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Answer: phalanx (sheilds and long speartipped poles surrounding a group of men)
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In the Fourteenth-Century Europe, one third of the population died as a result of contact with what?
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Answer: Black Plague or Bubonic Plague
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The basic unit of Chinese society including ancestors was known as the Family. Where in China is the present capital of China located.
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Answer: Beijing, China
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Athens, the city state that eventually became the capital of the Greek Nation has been and still remains Greece's capital. Where is Athens and Greece located?
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Answer: Southeastern Europe on the Mediterranean Sea.
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What city-state became the largest Empire of the Mediterranean Sea area?
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Answer: Roman Empire
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What powder from China changed the way we conduct war to this day and is still in use?
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Answer; gun powder or black powder
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The Pharaohs of Egypt, between 2550 B.C.E. and 2490 B.C.E. built the largest stone structures ever built by man. What is the name of these Structures?
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Answer: Pyramids
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What was the trade route across china, India, Persia, and into present day Europe called?
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Answer: Silk Road
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The Industrial Revolution is said to have begun in what Nation in Europe during the 18th century?
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Answer: England
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The real center of power in the Roman State that lasted it's life and members were members for life, was known as the _____.
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Answer: Senate
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What city in the central part of the United States waa "The Gateway To The West."
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Answer: St. Louis
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What nation gave the United States the Statue of Liberty?
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Answer: France
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The Virginia town that Lee and Grant sat down to sign the surrender of the Confederate forces was ?
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Answer: Appomattox, Virginia
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The French settled in What area of North America?
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Answer: Canada
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The priest called ______, were the teachers and judges of the Celtic society.
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Answer: Druids
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The Name of the President who survived the split and repair of America only to died at wars end was whom?
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Answer: Abraham Lincoln
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The British surrendered to Washington at what battle? Thus ending the Kings rule over the Colonists.
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Answer: Battle of Yorktown
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During the French Revolution,no symbol was more important of the overturning of the old order than the beheading of whom?
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Answer: Louis XVI
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What city in Europe was the treaty of England and the colonist signned?
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Answer: Paris France (Treaty of Paris)
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The midnight ride of who was signaled one if by land and two if by sea?
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Answer: Paul Revere
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Iceman, a 5,300 year old man found frozen in the Alps, was equipped with tools and a means to hunt food. Where in Europe is the Alps?
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The Alps are located in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland.
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Within six years of the end to the Civil War , the East and West Coasts of the United States would be linked by what mode of transportation.
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Answer: RailRoad
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What famous America Writer was once a Riverboat Captain?
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Answer: Mark Twain (samuel Clemens)
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The name of the war that divided the United Stated into two factions over States rights was what?
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Answer: Civil War War Between The States
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What is the largest Nation in Central America that Spanish is spoken today?
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Answer: Mexico
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When the New England area of America was settled, two seperate groups of Protestant dissenters undertook the settlement of this area. Who were they?
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Answer; Pilgrims and Puritans
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Where is the Statue of Liberty located?
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Answer: New York Harbor
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