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Period
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Question
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Answer
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1400 CE - 1599 CE
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What modern country did Christopher Columbus land in?
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Bahamas
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Who was the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon?
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Isabella
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Who sculpted the statue of David?
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Michelangelo
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Who invented the Printing Press?
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Who fought the War of the Roses against Lancaster?
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York
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What disease killed most of the Inca?
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Smallpox
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What prince of Moscow was described as "terrible"?
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Ivan the Terrible
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Who started the Protestant Reformation?
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Martin Luther
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Who discovered Jupiter's moons?
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Galileo
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What explorer found a route from Portugal to India?
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Vasco de Gama
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What trading empire controlled Cyprus and Crete throughout the 1500s?
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Venice
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What country conquered Songhai?
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Morocco
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What country gained independence from Spain in 1573?
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Netherlands
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What was the title of the leader of the Mughal Empire?
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Sultan
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What city was Sir Walter Raleigh searching for around Lake Parime?
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El Dorado
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What was Shakespeare's first play?
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Henry VI
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Who explained the Three Laws of Motion?
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Isaac Newton
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1600 CE - 1799 CE
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What was the first British colony in North America?
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Jamestown
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What animal went extinct on Mauritius in the 1600s?
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Dodo Bird
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Who led the gunpowder plot?
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Guy Fawkes
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What city is famous for not one, but two defenestrations?
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Prague
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What structure, built by the Ming dynasty, is 8,500 km long?
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Great Wall of China
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What city burned down in 1666?
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London
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Who developed the Scientific Method?
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Francis Bacon
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What country colonized Angola?
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Portugal
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What was the home of Louis XIV?
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Versailles
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What region was the Seven Years war fought over?
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Ohio Valley
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What colony was founded by the people on the Mayflower?
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Plymouth
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What is the oldest college in the United States?
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Harvard
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What country was led by Maria Theresa?
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Austria
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Where did James Cook die?
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Hawaii
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What was the most important port of New France?
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New Orleans
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What monument was built by Shah Jahan in Agra?
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Taj Mahal
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What European capital was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1755?
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Lisbon
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Who invented the modern steam engine?
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James Watt
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What country was known as Joseon?
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Korea
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What city had a famous "Tea Party" in 1773?
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Boston
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On what island did the Industrial Revolution begin?
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Great Britain
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What queen of France was Austrian born?
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Marie Antoinette
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Who was the first U.S Secretary of State?
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Thomas Jefferson
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What was the use of the Bastille before it was stormed?
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Prison
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What was the second North American country to gain independence?
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Haiti
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Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?
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Maximilien Robespierre
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What is Eli Whitney's most famous invention?
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Cotton Gin
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1800 CE - 1849 CE
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Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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What war was fought between the U.S and Canada
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War of 1812
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What battle was Napoleon's downfall?
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Battle of Waterloo
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Which religious branch was founded by Joseph Smith?
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Mormonism
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What Native American tribe was forced through the Trail of Tears?
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Cherokee
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What artifact helped translate hieroglyphics?
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Rosetta Stone
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Who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition?
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Sacagawea
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What country was the border between Russia and British India?
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Afghanistan
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What was the former name of Thailand?
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Siam
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What crop was severely damaged in Ireland in 1845?
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Potato
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Who developed Communism?
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Karl Marx
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Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"
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Charles Dickens
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Who won the War of the Pacific?
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Chile
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1850 CE - 1899 CE
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Who developed the Theory of Evolution?
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Charles Darwin
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What woman freed about 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad?
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Harriet Tubman
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Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries"?
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Richard Wagner
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What was Britain given as a result of the Opium Wars?
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Hong Kong
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Who helped Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia gain independence?
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Simon Bolivar
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What U.S territory was purchased from Russia?
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Alaska
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What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?
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Richmond
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What Austrian Neurologist famously studied dreams?
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Sigmund Freud
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What did the 13th amendment outlaw in the United States?
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Slavery
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What was the largest German state when Germany was united?
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Prussia
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Who discovered Polonium?
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Marie Curie
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Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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What African country, other than Ethiopia, avoided European Colonization?
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Liberia
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What famous Serbian is said to have invented a death ray?
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Nikola Tesla
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What train consistently traveled from Paris to Istanbul?
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Orient Express
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What volcano erupted near Indonesia in 1883 and could be heard in Australia?
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Krakatoa
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What volcano caused the "Year without a Summer"?
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Mount Tambora
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What structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair?
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Eiffel Tower
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What modern Asian country was annexed by the United States?
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Philippines
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Who painted the "Starry Night"?
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Vincent van Gogh
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Who invented dynamite?
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Alfred Nobel
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What was the first country to give women the right to vote?
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New Zealand
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