So you think you know history. Not the dates you crammed for a test and forgot by summer, but the real stuff: the empires that rose and rotted, the wars that dragged on for a century, the single monk who cracked Europe in half. This one ranges across the whole map and a few thousand years, and it doesn’t grade on a curve.
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Which civilization developed one of the first known writing systems, cuneiform?
The Hundred Years' War was fought primarily between which two nations?
Who was the Mongol leader who founded the largest contiguous land empire in history?
The Spanish conquistador who toppled the Aztec Empire was:
The Industrial Revolution first began in which country?
Which document, issued in 1948, set out fundamental rights for all people under the new United Nations?
The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed in 79 CE by the eruption of:
Which religious movement was sparked by Martin Luther in 1517?
The transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was completed in 1869 at which location?
Catherine the Great was a long-reigning ruler of which country?
The Boston Tea Party (1773) was a protest against:
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced in which country?
The Wright brothers made their first powered flight in 1903 at:
Which queen ruled England during a golden age of theater and exploration?
The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, connects the Mediterranean Sea to which body of water?
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