History and Geography 4
Mckinley
This politician's foreign policy was mocked in a letter written by Dupuy De Lome
Trudeau
This politician's successor dismantled his unpopular National Energy Program
Iriqouis Confederation
This polity negotiated the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix following violations of the Proclamation of 1763,
Roanoke
This settlement was first proposed by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and after he drowned, his half-brother took charge of it.
Cross of Gold Speech
This speech was Given at the 1896 Democratic National Convention,
Alaska
This state contains Wrangell-St.Elias National park
Wyoming
This state contains the steel producing Powder River Basin
Illinois
This state is home to the Cahokia tribe,
South Dakota
This state is home to the iconic Corn Palace
Kentucky
This state saw a large "camp meeting" in 1801 at Cane Ridge
Minnesota
This state was represented by Paul Wellstone
Kansas
This state was the origin of the "dry" movement, enforced by Carrie Nation
new Mexico
This state's Capulin Volcano National Monument is a certified Gold-tier International Dark Sky Park and is located east of the Sangre de Christo range of the Rocky Mountains.
Idaho
This state's capital has the highest concentration of Basques in America
Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson likened the debate over this law to a "fire bell ringing in the night."
Wool
A worker of this good, (*) Michele de Lando, was nominated by other workers of this good to become Gonfaloniere of Justice
Frederick The Great
Above a terraced garden, this man built a Rococo summer palace called Sanssouci.
Jerusalem
Aelia Capitolina was constructed on top of the ruins of this city, which was (*) sacked by the Romans in 70 AD.
Saratoga
During this battle, Frederika Riedesel tended to the wounded while under fire in the cellar of the Marshall House
Montgomery Bus Boycott
E. D. Nixon (*) posted bail for the instigator of this campaign
Argentina
In this country, the loss of Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May Revolution led to the First Junta taking power.
Mexico
In this country, the volcano (*) Paricutin suddenly emerged from a farmer's cornfield in 1943, while the taller volcano Popocatepetl is found adjacent to its capital city as well as Puebla
oTTOman
In this empire, provinces were divided into regions called sanjaks and different religious communities were partly self-governing under the (*) millet system
Prague Spring
In this home country of Klement Gottwald, Antonin Novotny was deposed in an event protested by (*)) Jan Palach's [PAH-lock's] self-immolation
Tang
The Battle of Talas River was an Abbasid victory against this empire, ending its domination of Central Asia
Atacama Desert
The Battle of Topater took place in this region near the cities of Iquique and Antofagasta
Wars of the Roses
The Battle of Towton paused widespread hostilities
Arthur Wellesley
The Catholic Emancipation Act was passed while he was Prime Minister,
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Cato the Elder-inspired phrase "Whatever happens, [these people] must go," ended every speech by noted scumbag Denis Kearney, who united his Workingmen's Party via a hatred of these people.
USA
The Cherry Valley Massacre made some in this country fear "the Monster Brant".
Mekong
The Chi and Mun Rivers flow through the Khorat Plateau before emptying into this river.
Andes
The Chimu people of this mountain range possibly emerged from its Moche civilization
Volga
The Chuvash people live primarily on an upland named after this river
Challenger Disaster
The Morton Thiokol Chemical Corporation was blamed for this event by the Rogers Commission investigating it,
Great Salt Lake
The Oquirrh ["oh-ker"] Mountains run underneath this body of water, creating its Antelope and Fremont Islands
Paraguay
This country's principal leader following its independence was Jose Francia, who was known as "El Supremo
Norway
This country's region of Finnmark is home to a minority group speaking a Finno-Ugric language
Qatar
This country's tallest building, the Aspire Tower, is located in the West Bay Lagoon district of this country's capital city
North Korea
This country, which was devastated by a famine known as the Arduous March,
Machiavelli
This man compared fortune to a lady who must be beaten
Brutus
This man killed himself after he lost the Battle of Philippi because his ally Cassius prematurely committed suicide.
Alexander the Great
This man killed his general Cleitus the Black
William Wallace
This man killed the sheriff William Heselrig,
Nixon
This president appointed Warren E. Burger to the Supreme Court to replace Earl Warren
Bacon's Rebellion
This rebellion fizzled out under John Ingram's leadership after its leader died of dysentery
Weimar Reubllic
This regime sentenced the Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe to death.
Patagonia
This region contains Los Glaciares National Park.
Kalahari Desert
This region is also home to the Dragon's Breath Cave.
Yellowstone
This region is bordered to the north by the Gallatin mountains and to the east by the Absaroka range, in which its namesake river rises.
Tibet
This region was explored by Francis Younghusband's expedition.
Yellowstone
This region's Shoshone Lake as well as its namesake lake both lie south of its Grand Loop Road
Gobi Desert
This region's freshwater Bosten Lake is often taken as one end of its western boundary along with Lop Nur
Rio Grande
This river begins at the base of the San Juan Mountains.
Amazon River
This river is joined to another river system to its north by the Casiquiare canal.
Orinoco
This river is the ultimate drain of most of a highland region littered with many tabletop mountains called tepuis
Amazon River
This river's course is paralleled underneath the earth by a slowly flowing aquifer called the Hamza River
Rio Grande
This river's largest tributary begins in the Sierra Madre Occidental range and is known as the Conchos River
Euphrates
This river's only major tributaries are the Belikh and Khabur, and it forms Lake Hammar.
Idaho
This state's county seat, Lewiston, is the furthest inland seaport in the Western United States and sits at the confluence of the Clearwater
Georgia
This state's legislature was involved in the Yazoo Land Fraud, which resulted in the case Fletcher v. Peck
Montana
This state's western border is formed by the (*) Bitterroot Mountains
Venice
This state, which won the War of Chioggia against Genoa
Mexican-American War
A more lenient than expected treaty signed after this war led to the firing of diplomat Nicholas Trist.
New Mexico
A national park in this state has notable features like "The Big Room" and "Chocolate High,"
Puerto Rico
A small frog called the coquí [coh-KEE] is native to this island's mountainous Yunque [YOON-kay] rainforest
War of the Spanish Succession
Admiral George Rooke fought the Battle of Málaga in this war after successfully taking Gibraltar.
Gandhi
After this man's assassination at the Birla House, his nation's president gave a speech lamenting (*) "the light has gone out of our lives.
Alexander The Great
After this ruler's death, the Battles of Rhamnus and Crannon took place as part of the Lamian War.
Great Northern War
After this war one country experiences the Age of Liberty
Mongol
After two of this empire's messengers were killed, this empire conquered the (*) Khwarezmian Empire
Babylon
After winning the Battle of Opis, Cyrus the Great conquered this city from its king, Nabonidus
Gauls
After winning the Battle of the Allia River under Brennus, a group of these people sacked Rome in 390 BCE.
Charlemagne
His army killed thousands of Saxons led by Widukind at the Massacre of Verden
aKHENATEN
His correspondence with the Hittites is recorded in the Amarna letters.
Dublin
In 1882, Henry Burke and Frederick Cavendish were killed in this city's (*) Phoenix Park
Oklahoma City Bombing
In a famous photograph of this event, the infant Baylee Almon was held in the hands of firefighter Charles Porter
Vikings
In a ritual, a leader of these people legendarily kissed the feet of Charles the Simple
Nixon
In a senate race, this candidate compared his opponent's voting record to that of alleged Communist Vito Marcantonio
Qin
In addition to Zhao Gao, an official from this dynasty issued the Ban Liang to standardize coins
Ontario
In addition to that city of Kenora, Lighthouses such as Cove Island Light litter this province's Bruce Peninsula which is the site of the tourist-haven Sauble Beach.
Tennessee
In addition to the Battle of Stones River, this state was the site of a Nathan Bedford Forrest-orchestrated massacre of African-American troops at Fort Pillow
Francis I
In an extravagant meeting that lasted two weeks long, this ruler attempted to form an alliance with Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Peloponnesian War
In an incident from this war, a lunar eclipse convinced a commander to delay setting sail, leading over 20,000 troops to be killed or captured
Duke Of Wellington
In another battle, this general defended Hougoumont chateau shortly after the (*) Battle of Quatre Bras
Wounded Knee
In another event at this location, forces under James Forsyth attempted to disarm a (*) deaf man, which led to the accidental discharge of his weapon
Sulla
In his first stint in public office as quaestor, this man captured the Numidian king Jugurtha.
Cleopatra
In one anecdote recounted by Pliny, this figure takes one of the largest pearls in the world and dissolves it in a cup of vinegar before drinking it.
Ramses II
In one campaign, this ruler crossed the Dog River and conquered land as far north as Dapur in the region of Amurru
Spain
In this country, a car was launched over a building during Operation Ogre
Colombia
In this country, the 19th of April Movement formed after the possibly fraudulent election of Misael Pastrana as president. The loser in that election gained control of this nation via a peaceful coup d'etat supported by the Liberals and Conservatives
Spain
In this present-day country, Metellus Pius was deadlocked against therogue general Quintus Sertorius for three years until Pompey's arrival
Arkansas
In this state, Lynn Davis led raids on gambling facilities at Hot Springs
Louisianna
In this state, the White League committed the Coushatta massacre
Whiskey Rebellion
Liberty poles were erected during this event to galvanize support, and this event began with an attack on (*) General John Neville's home of Bower Hill
South Africa
One ruler of this country was assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas
Shang
One ruler of this dynasty used a large pool full of alcohol and trees with branches made up of roasted meat skewers for his personal entertainment.
Persian Empire
One ruler of this empire faced a rebellion by a man claiming to be his executed brother Bardiya.
Persian Empire
One ruler of this empire reportedly ordered his soldiers to whip the (*) sea after a storm destroyed two pontoon bridges.
Mughals
One ruler of this empire was given shelter by Tahmasp in return for the cession of Kandahar
Alexander III
One ruler of this name persecuted the Jews through the May Laws
James II
One ruler of this name presided over the Trial of the Seven Bishops.
Persia
One ruler of this region kidnapped the sitting Roman emperor Valerian in battle in the 3rd century
Alexander
One ruler with this personal name led a country whose forces were routed at Friedland, causing him to meet in a raft on the Memel River to discuss the Treaty of Tilsit
Alexnader
One ruler with this personal name led a country whose forces were routed at Friedland, causing him to meet in a raft on the Memel River to discuss the Treaty of Tilsit
Jamestown
One ship that attempted to reach this colony was the Sea Venture.
Saratoga
One side in this battle held the Balcarres Redoubt, but later lost the nearby Breymann Redoubt
Peloponnesian War
One side's commander in this conflict gave his Funeral Oration speech after his successful invasion of Megara.
Hastings
One side's forces at this battle consisted of mainly the Fyrd militia and the( ∗ ) Housecarl royal guards.
Great Schism
One source of discontent leading up to this event included the Filioque clause
Aral Sea
One such island in this body of water, Vozrozhdeniya, also known as Rebirth Island, was used for nuclear testing by the (*) Soviet Union
Prussia and Austria
One war between these two countries ended after the Battle of Chotusitz only to resume two years later.
Nazi Party
Operation Anthropoid was an attempted assassination against a member of this group. "
Berlin Wall
Operation Rose was a secret plan marking out the location of this structure.
Hungarian Revolution
Operation Whirlwind was meant to stop this event
Indian Removal act
Opponents of this legislation included Jeremiah Everts and Davy Crockett
Tennessee Valley Authority
Opposition to this organization was led by Wendell Willkie, CEO of Commonwealth and (*)) Southern Corporation
Franz Ferdinand
Oskar Potiorek encouraged riots in the aftermath of this event. The Salonika Trial resulted in the execution of four people who helped plan this event, including one codenamed "Apis."
Mountains
Outside Kyoto, one of these called Hiei [hee-ay] was home to many (*) monks.
Beirut
Over 60 French nationals were killed in this city when a truck bomb struck a complex in its Ramel el-Baida neighborhood; that attack occurred simultaneously with a suicide bomb at a Marine Corps base that killed 241 Americans in 1983
Slaves
Over half a million of these people almost toppled the Abbasid Empire in the Zanj Revolt
Inca
Pachacuti, a famed ruler of this empire, is thought to have constructed Machu Picchu.
Bunker
Project Greek Island secretly built one of these structures at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia
new Jersey
The Pine Barrens are found in the south-central part of this state
3rd Century
The Plague of Cyprian broke out in this century
Tasmania
The Port Arthur massacre in this region led to stricter gun control laws in its country
Ghana
The Portuguese first landed in a town named Elmina in this nation.
Pyongyang
The Pothong River in this city is now home to the captured warship USS Pueblo
Coal
The Powder River Basin is a major source of this substance in its Interior Province
Slaves
The Qajar Dynasty banned these people coming to Iran by water.
Khmer
The Reamker (ree-um-kay) is this people's national epic
Space Shuttle
The Rogers Commission investigated an event that occurred in this program
Space Shuttle Program`
The Rogers Commission investigated an event that occurred in this program
Wales
The Romans built gold mines in this region at Dolaucothi after defeating the Silures ("sih-LOO-rays") and Ordovices ("OR-duh-WEE-kays"
Lion
The Royal Badge of Wales features four of these creatures with one paw raised.
Mekong
The Ruak River joins this river in the Golden Triangle
USA
The San Juan Strait became the actual border of this country after the Pig War
Indonesia
The Santa Cruz massacre in what was once this nation drew international support and attention leading the eventual independence of a small nation in its east.
Ireland
The Saville Commission investigated a 1972 incident on this island in which soldiers shot at unarmed civilians
Samurai
The Seinen war was an 1877 (*) rebellion of these people in the Satsuma Domain.
Ming
The Seven Grievances were issued against it by Nurhaci, who laid the groundwork for its eventual collapse
Zambezi
The Shire [SHEE-ray] and Kafue are among the largest tributaries of this river
Aqueducts
The Siege of Tenochtitlan was won after Pedro de Alvarado destroyed one of these connected to Chapultepec (*) Springs
Newfoundland
The Strait of Belle Isle in this location was first discovered in 1497 by John Cabot
Iroquois Confederacy
The Sullivan Campaign sought to destroy this polity for its support of the British during the Revolutionary War,
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder found that a section of a law designed to make this action more common in 1965 was unconstitutional
Louisiana
The Supreme Court's first Second Amendment case, U.S. v. Cruikshank, resulted from this state's Colfax Massacre.
Sydney
The T1 Northern and North Shore Line crosses this city's Harbour Bridge`
Mexico
The Tarahumara people are native to the area around this nation's large Copper Canyon
Qing
The Ten Great Campaigns were carried out by the Qianlong ["CHIN-long"] emperor during this dynasty that used the Eight Banners military system.
Reconstruction
The Ten Percent Plan was implemented during the period in favor of a policy proposed in the (*) Wade-Davis Bill
Cunaxa
The Ten Thousand were originally hired to fight for Cyrus the Younger against his brother Artaxerxes II. Cyrus the Younger died in this battle when his forces were betrayed by Tissaphernes
Tang
The Three Kingdoms of Korea period was ended by a war between the Goguryeo and this dynasty
Baghdad
The Translation Movement was based out of an institution located in this city's center, which was known as the "Round City."
Venice
The Treaty of Passarowitz reversed the gains this polity made in the Treaty of Karlowitz.
Hanseatic League
The Treaty of Stralsund marked the defeat of Valdemar IV's attempt to shut this organization down by capturing Visby.
Magellan
The Trinidad and Victoria were two ships this man used to name the Pacific Ocean in 1521.
New mexico
The Trinity missile test occurred in the White Sands National Monument in this state
Cyprus
The Troodos Mountains carve out one side of this island's northern Mesaoria plain
UAE
The Trucial States were a protectorate in this country
Oil
The UK began getting this good from the North Sea in 1971.
decolonization
The UN Trusteeship Council helped this movement, which the Brazzaville Declaration preceded
Bangladeshi Genocide
The US government was made aware of atrocities in this conflict by the Blood Telegram
Venezuela
The US mediated a territorial conflict among Germany and Britain (*) in 1904 in this country that prompted the Roosevelt Corollary
Six-Day War
The USS Liberty was accidentally attacked during this war, spawning numerous conspiracy theories
Zimbabwe
The Umkondo Basin may replace the Marange fields as the primary source of diamonds in this country
The War of the Pacific
The United States government attempted to mediate this conflict at the Lackawanna conference.
affirmative action
The University of Michigan's application of this policy was partially upheld in cases named for Lee Bollinger
Spain
The Valladolid debates about this empire's Indians were between (*) Juan de Sepulveda and Bartholomew de Las Casas
Crete
The Venetians, who inspired this island's romance Erotokritos, called it Candia.
North Carolina
The first English baby born in the Americas, Virginia Dare, was born in what is now this state. She was born in Roanoke Colony
Mansa Musa's hajj
The man who led this event was depicted ten years later on a throne in the Catalan Atlas and had taken power from Abu Bakr II
The Philippines
The rice terraces of this country's Ifugao region are a UNESCO world heritage site
Lisbon
This city's overseas trade, which was managed by the India House, included the wine it exported to England due to the Methuen Treaty
Los Angeles
This city's police chief, William Parker, described the participants of that event in this city as acting like "monkeys in a zoo
Syracuse
This city's tyrants included Dionysius and Hieron
peasant's revolt
This event's leader was killed by William Walworth during negotiations with the king at Smithfield
Champlain
This explorer names a body of water that would be the site of a victory for Thomas Macdonough over the (*) British during the Battle of Plattsburgh
Romanov
This family eventually merged with the Holstein-Gottorp line
MLK
This man stated "I'm so happy I didn't sneeze" prior to a sanitation workers' strike
Vanderbilt
This man was engaged in the "Erie War" with Jay Gould and Daniel Drew
Henry Iv
This man was excommunicated by (+) Sixtus V, which hurt his claim to the throne along with the Treaty of Nemours
Carnegie
This man's rise to prominence was championed by Thomas A. Scott
Billy Graham
This man's son runs the Samaritan's Purse organization and is named Franklin
Spartacus
This man's top generals were Oenomaus and Crixus, and after plundering the city of Capua, he made his headquarters at Mount Vesuvius
Sahara
" The Chech and Issaouane are examples of ergs located in this geographical feature
Susan B. Anthony
" This leader managed a newspaper financed by eccentric businessman George Francis Train called The Revolution.
Irish Republicanism
" Thomas Henry Burke and Frederick Cavendish were murdered in Phoenix Park by advocates of this cause known as the "Invincibles."
Cuba
This country has the "wet foot/dry foot" policy
Tennessee Valley Authority
George Norris was the main proponent for this corporation
MLK
He made plans for the Poor People's March, carried out after his death,
Gregory
Henry IV appeared before the seventh pope of this name
Tut
Many of this ruler's belongings were stored in a site known as KV62
Mekong
Many people who live along this river worship a giant catfish found in it
pol pot
1This man called himself "Brother Number One"
Pompey
Although Sertorious defeated this man in the Battle of Lauron
Vespucci
Another letter this explorer wrote was titled Mundus Novus
hENRY Clay
Charlotte Dupuy sued this man for her freedom after being a slave at his hemp plantation at Ashland.
Mau Mau Uprising
In response to this event, land was redistributed to families via theSwynnerton Plan
iran
It contains Mount Damavand within the Alborz Mountains in its north, a
UK
John Slidell and James Mason were taken hostage from one of this country's ships in the Trent Affair
Zulu
One leader of this polity executed Piet Retief
1960
The first-ever televised debates were held during this election,
Gun
Samuel Walker ordered 1,000 of these commodities and co-names one variant of them.
Slaves
These people were helped by the Somerset case in England
Huey Long
This ally of Father Charles Coughlin
Crimean
This conflict was preceded by the London Straits Convention.
Ethiopia
The Kebra Nagast describes the lineage of this nation's former rulers
Robert the Bruce
This man murdered his rival John Comyn at Dumfries
Aboriginal Canadians
These people rose up in the North-West Rebellion
Colombia
This country is home to the ELN, or National Liberation Army
Alexander the Great
This man had an affair with Hephaestion
Vladamir Lenin
This man implemented the New Economic Policy
Cecil Rhodes
. A political cartoon depicted this man as a giant straddling a continent and holding up a telegraph line
Saratoga
le. One side withdrew from Barber Field to the Balcarres Redoubt during this battle
Abbasids
. A ruler of this kingdom was mentioned by Einhard as gifting an elephant and water clock to (*) Charlemagne.
Peloponnesian War
: This war paused after the death of Brasidas for the Peace of Nicias.
Tasmania
. A type of pine tree named for a river on this island can live for up to 3,000 years and is known as the Huon Pine
Prussia and Austria
. A war between these two countries began after both sides were accused of violating the Gastein Convention
Savonarola
. A year earlier, his Piagnoni presided over an event where works by Dante and Ovid were destroyed
South korea
. Protests by labor groups and students in this country's Masan Harbor led to the start of this country's (*) April Revolution
Ghana
. Queen Yaa led a revolt in this country after Frederick Hodgson demanded an artifact sacred to its people,
Greenland
: Transportation around this territory is provided by a company named for a local variety of boat, the Umiaq ("OO-mee-ahk") Line
Piracy
: Two female members of this occupation served under John Rackham and were named Mary Read and Anne Bonny.
Bourbon
A "bourgeois monarch" overthrew Charles X of this house, whom Legitimists favored.
Havana
A "little" version of this city hosts the annual Calle Ocho Festiva
1912
. After John Schrank failed in an attempt to assassinate one candidate in this election, that candidate claimed he was as fit as a (*) "bull moose."
Scotland
A 1540s war fought for the hand of this country's queen was called the (*) Rough Wooing
Assad
. After gaining power in the Corrective Revolution, one leader from this family ordered the Defence Companies to besiege the town of (*) Hama in 1982
Tobacco
A 1730 "Inspection Act" to regulate this crop was passed by the House of (*) Burgesses
Idi Amin
. After seizing power from Milton Obote, this man renamed his palace "The Command Post" and expelled 50,000 Asian from his country
Jefferson Davis
. After signing a $100,000 bond for this man's release, Horace Greeley lost thousands of subscriptions to his Weekly Tribune.
Iceland
A 1783 volcanic eruptionwrecked this country
Maori
. Although later interactions were generally peaceful, these people killed and ate 70 Europeans in the Boyd Massacre in an act of revenge
Korea
one invasion of this country, named for a Sexagenary Cycle month, was the Imjin War
South Korea
. An attempted assassination of another leader of this country was conducted at the Blue House in 1968.
Saud
. At the Battle of Sabilla, a member of this family crushed a revolt of the Ikhwan, religious militia who had earlier propelled that man into power
puerto rico
. Bonds from this place were exempted from taxes by the Jones-Shafroth Act which also granted citizenship to people from this island
Charles II
. Both the Great Plague and Great Fire of London occurred during this monarch's reign
Ghana
. Conservative advocates for this country's independence called for "Independence in the Shortest Possible Time," in contrast with the slogan "Independence Now" used by the Convention People's Party.
Japan
. During peacetime, the U.S. gunboat Panay was bombed by this country.
Gettysburg
. During this battle, the boulder field Devil's Den was attacked by John Bell Hood's troops
Leopold II
. Robert Casement's namesake report first drew accusations that this man's (*) Force Publique had been cutting off the hands of field workers who failed to meet their quotas
Sugar
A 1791 pamphlet by William Fox sought to encourage a boycott of this commodity among citizens of Britain
aboriginals
were the targets of the Myall Creek Massacre
Nicaragua
y. Bull sharks populated this country's namesake lake by leaping up the rapids on the(*) San Juan River, which separates this country from its southern neighbor, Costa Rica.
Merovingian Dynasty
. Rulers from this dynasty, who were sometimes referred to as "long-haired kings", were forbidden from ruling if they had their hair cut
Pirates
. Stede Bonnet joined one of these people who extracted tolls from the Pamlico Sound off the coast of North Carolina
Secretary of State
. Following the September 11 attacks, the promotion of democracy in the Middle East was stressed in the Transformational Diplomacy initiative under (*) Condolezza Rice's tenure in this position.
Safavid
. Following this empire's loss at the Battle of Chaldiran, its ruler Ismail I lost his capital at Tabriz
Kublai Khan
. This leader's accomplishments include putting down Nayan's rebellion
Han
. General Ma Yuan of this dynasty crushed a rebellion in which a woman fought holding a baby in one hand and a sword in the other.
80's
. General Wojciech (*) Jaruzelski ("VOY-check YAIR-uh-ZEL-ski" declared martial law in the second year of this decade, partly to quell protests that began the decade before in the Gdansk Shipyards.
Martel
. This man came to power through battles against Nuestrians at Amblève and Vincy
Henry Morgan Stanley
. He personally led a botched expedition in 1886 to rescue a governor of Equatoria threatened by Mahdist troops named (*)) Emin Pasha
Louis Philippe
. He was overthrown in the February Revolution of ( ∗ ) 1848, and his July Monarchy was established after the overthrow of Charles X.
Kristallnacht
. Heinrich Müller ordered his forces to actively participate in this event
Diaz
. In an interview with James Creelman, this leader claimed he would not run for office again in an upcoming election,
Marcus Aurelius
. In contrast to his extravagant co-emperor Lucius Verus, this man tried to rule modestly and morally
Freedom of the Press
. In one of the first American court cases involving this right, Peter Zenger's company was found not to have committed (*) libel against a New York governor.
Deng Xiaoping
. In suggesting the abolition of the people's communes, this leader stated that "it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches the mice."
Vespucci
. In the Mundus Novus, this man informed (*) Lorenzo de Medici that the land that he discovered was not Asia, but a new landmass
Stonewall Riots
. In the aftermath of this event, described as the "hairpin drop heard round the world", rallies were held by both the Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society.
Peloponnesian War
. In the following attempt to recapture the city in this battle (*) Cleon died in battle
Quebec
. In this province, a planned golf course on land that once belonged to the Mohawk led to the Oka Crisis.
Secretary of War
. It's not a judicial role, but after serving as the Governor-General of the Philippines, William Howard Taft was appointed to this position by Theodore Roosevelt
Bay of Pigs Invasion
: This incident was precipitated by the activities of Operation Mongoose
london
. Its official police was established in 1829, succeeding the (*)) "Bow Street Runners," and was made of "Bobbies" or "Peelers."
Jackson
After this man married Cornelia, he was removed from the position of Flamen Diali
Antietam
. John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade held back troops under Joseph Hooker at this battle, and William French received heavy casualties while fighting at Bloody Lane
Jewish Revolts
. Josephus was a prominent historian of these conflicts,
Tang
. Like its predecessor, this dynasty abandoned the nine-rank system, and instituted a self-rule system called Jimi
Maori
. Many of these people were opposed to the sale of land to the pakeha, the white man.
Philip II
. Margaret of Parma was a local governor for a king of this name, who also employed her son, the Duke of Parma, as a general.
Persian Gulf War
. On the Highway of Death, this war's loser, who called it the"mother of all battles,"
Marcus Aurelius
. One general who served this ruler in that conflict, Gaius Avidus Cassius, later rebelled against him after hearing false rumors of his death.
Louis XI
. One king with this name died in Tunis after being captured at the Battle of Fariskur
Gulf of Mexico
. One state's tourism is protected by the Sigsbee Escarpment and De Soto Canyon limiting industry in this water body.
Jury Selection
. One step in this process is a round of questioning called "voir dire."
Blackbeard
After this man stole La Concorde, his old ship was renamed Mauvaise Rencontre by a group of French slavers
Marbury V. Madison
Charles Lee simultaneously represented the plaintiffs in this case and Stuart v. Laird.
Shay's Rebellion
During this conflict, Governor Bowdoin created a force led by Benjamin Lincoln.
Montgomery
E.D. Nixon co-founded this city's namesake "Improvement Association."
Pyramids
. Only one of these structures still has near its apex the original limestone that encased all of them. That one of these structures was built by Khafre and includes as part of its complex a (*) noseless statue of a sphinx.
Japan
. Practitioners of this nation's main religion have sacred places with hand washing basins and wooden blocks to write wishes on.
Zheng He
. A controversial 2002 work by Gavin Menzies claimed that this man discovered the (*) Americas, Australia, and the Northeast Passage
Elephant
. A failed invasion of Mecca using these weapons took place during the "Year of [this weapon]," during which Muhammad was born.
steamboat
. A former Governor of New Jersey sued a business partner for violating a monopoly on the use of these things in a case involving a young Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Georgia
. A leader of this colony negotiated with Chief Tomochichi of the Yamacraw Indians to establish Fort Frederica and established a "trustee system" in this colony that banned lawyers.
Hawaii
. A monarch of this kingdom who was targeted by the Wilcox Rebellion is celebrated in the yearly Merrie Monarch Festival.
Han
) After the Red Eyebrows rebelled during this dynasty, its capital was moved to Luoyang.
Little Bighorn
) General George Crook could not attend this battle due to being held up at the Battle of the Rosebud.
North Sea
) The western border of this body of water is partially formed by island groups which include the cities of Kirkwall and Lerwick
JFK
) This man exclaimed, "so I come here tonight to go to bed" in a 2:00 AM speech at the University of Michigan that introduced the idea of the Peace Corps
Yemen
, ISIS claimed responsibility for a car bombing that targeted forces of this country's pro-Saudi president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Olmec Heads
. A 1939 expedition led by Matthew Stirling popularized these objects in the US
Philip the fair
. A French king of this name expelled Jews from his country and eliminated the Knights Templar within the span of two years and was nicknamed "the (*) Fair
1960
. A candidate during this election fulfilled his pledge to visit all fifty states despite a knee injury, and ran alongside (*) Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Isabela
. Supporters of this ruler defeated the Portuguese-backed Joanna "la Beltraneja" at the Battle of Toro, ending the succession crisis created by the death of Henry the Impotent
Sri lanka
. The Anuradhapura kingdom was located in this modern-day country
Irish Potato Famine
. The Ballinlass incident was a notorious eviction during this event, in which Count Paul de Strzelecki was tasked with dispersing over four hundred thousand pounds.
nhs
. The Beveridge Report recommended the formation of this system
Mary Queen of Scots
. The Earl of Moray led the Chaseabout Raid against this woman after she married Lord Darnley
Saint Lawrence River
. The French-owned islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are in a namesake (*) "gulf" at the mouth of this river,
Mount Kilimanjaro
. The Furtwangler and Rebmann glaciers are both receding ice masses atop this mountain
World Fair
. The Louisiana Purchase was celebrated with a 1904 event of this kind in St. Louis, which has been cited for the nationwide spread of (*) foods like the hamburger and the waffle cone
Denali
. The Moose's Tooth is located 15 miles southeast of this landmark
Kiev
. The Pechenegs fought, often with Byzantine support, against the kingdom named for this city
Honshu
. The Sanyo Main Line runs along this island's long coastline with the Seto Sea
French Wars of Religion
. The Treaty of Nemours prevented a king from taking power in the leadup to this war
Ontario
. The Welland Canal connects this province's namesake Great Lake to Lake Erie.
Archbishop of Cantebury
. The first of them was a foreigner on mission from Gregory the Great, named Augustine
Indonesia
. The first president of this nation implemented the Guided Democracy system, causing a rift between him and Muhammed Hatta
Agincourt
. The inspiration for the poetry of Charles of Orleans came after his capture at this battle
Xinjiang
. The longest green belt in the world stretches alongside this region's Tarim Desert Highway
Tours
. The loser at this battle had just crushed a revolt by the husband of Lampade (LOM-pah-day), Uthman ibn Naissa
Peace of Westphalia
. The negotiations for this treaty were delayed by the outbreak of the Torstenson War, named for a commander in the war that it ended.
Knights Templar
. The papal bull Omne Datum Optimum established this organization in 1139
Sicily
. The philosopher Empedocles killed himself on this island by jumping into the volcano
Marbury Madison
. The plaintiff in this case sought a writ of (*) mandamus to receive his commission to serve as one of the "Midnight Judges" of John Adams
Yucatan
. The production of henequen fibers once made this region's city of Merida one of the wealthiest in the world
Chernobyl
. The samosely were most heavily affected by this event, whose aftermath was mitigated by the Liquidators.
Trafalgar
. The victorious commander in this battle set his forces into two columns, one of which was led by Cuthbert Collingwood
Ohio River
. The western border of this state is defined by the Miami River
K2
. TheAbruzzi Spur is the most frequent route up this mountain
Vandals
. These Arians took Carthage from the Romans.
Jury
. These groups must follow guidelines set by the Vicinage Clause
MckInley
. This U.S. president appointed the Wolcott Commission to work out an international bi·metall·ism agreement with Britain and France, but a few years after that effort failed, this president signed the Gold Standard Act
Huey Long
. This author of (*) My First Days in the White House ousted Benjamin Pavy from office, leading this governor to be assassinated by dentist Carl Weiss in 1935.
Bunker Hill
. This battle saw naval engagements around Moulton's Point.
Second Continental Congress
. This body appointed the Committee of Five to prepare a document that would publicize the Lee Resolution
The Prince
. This book idolizes Cesare Borgia and advises rulers to be like a fox and a lion.
Damascus
. This city became a capital under (*) Muawiyah
King philip's war
. This conflict, which was sparked by John Sassamon's death, saw the "Hungry March" led by Josiah Winslow
zIMBABWE
. This country saw conflict between the British colonizers and the native Ndebele people
Panama
. This country's island of Coiba is home to a namesake endemic species of howler monkeys
Shah Jahan
. This emperor commissioned Ahmad Lahori to create the (*) Peacock Throne, which is housed in the Diwan-i-Khas of another of his constructions, the Red Fort.
Mali
. This empire was created after its founder won the Battle of Kirina
Lollards
. This group was targeted for extermination when Sir John Oldcastle used its ideals as support for a rebellion against Henry V
Aragon
. This kingdom fought a war with the French Angevin dynasty that was sparked by the Sicilian Vespers
Truman
. This man exposed wasteful spending during the construction of Fort Leonard Wood as head of the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program.
Magellan
. This man owned the slave Enrique,
Carnegie
. This man served as Superintendent of Military Railways during the Civil War before creating the Keystone Bridge Company
Richard I
. This man was believed to be responsible for ordering Conrad of Montferrat's murder because of this man's support for Guy de Lusignan
jefferson Davis
. This man was the son-in-law of Zachary Taylor
FDR
. This man was told "I'm glad it was me instead of you," by accidental casualty Anton Cermak after an assassination attempt by Giusieppe Zangara.
Kublai Khan
. This man's troops crushed the remnants of the previous dynasty at Yamen
Charles V
. This man's unpopularity in a foreign country sparked the unsuccessful Revolt of the Comuneros, which he crushed and followed up by locking up his insane mother (*) Joanna
Ethiopia
. This nation's decentralized Zemene Mesafint, or "Era of the Princes" concluded when Tewodros II came to power
Gustav Adolphus
. This non-Russian won the province of Ingria after he signed the Treaty of Stolbovo with Czar Michael Romanov
sICILIAN MAFIA
. This organization was the target of the Maxi trial
Prague Spring
. This period began with the removal of Antonin Novotny
Hatshepsut
. This ruler ordered the construction of a monument still left in carved bedrock, the Unfinished Obelisk at Aswan
Ivan IV
. This ruler was defeated by Stephen Bathory in the Livonian War, a
Charles i
. This ruler was supported by William Laud, who was one of his so-called "Divines," and launched the Bishops' Wars to extend this man's religious policies to Scotland.
Charles V
. This ruler's forces sacked Rome while fighting against the League of Cognac
Ramses Ii
. This ruler's sheltering of Mursili III angered Mursili's successor, Hattusili III, and he engaged in a battle in which the enemy had to swim across the (*) Orontes River
London Undergrounds
. While building this system, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel developed a shield for miners
Roman navy
. While little evidence remains, it is said that this force was heavily damaged via a large claw attached to a wall during a battle near Syracuse.
War of the Pacific
. While victorious at the battle of Iquique during this war, Admiral Miguel Grau died and his ship, the Huascar, was captured at the battle of (*) Angamos.
New York
. William Miller, a resident of this state, used a 2,300-day prophecy to conclude that the Second Coming would occur in 1843.
Mary Queen Of Scots
." That ruler of this name was executed after the (*) Babington plot was discovered by Frederick Walsingham.
Han
.A chronicler during this dynasty served as court astrologer before his defense of his friend Li Lingled to his imprisonment and choice to become a eunuch
Colombia
0. In this country, the assassination of populist Jorge Gaitan began a period of strife known as La Violencia.
Knights Templar
0. The Chinon Parchment, discovered in the Papal Archives in 2001, revealed that a member of this group who was executed actually was absolved of crimes by the Pope before his death
Secretary of Defense
1. One holder of this government position was one of the Ford "Whiz Kids,"
Jefferson Davis
: This man escaped conviction after being put under house arrest for participating in the Eggnog Riot at West Point
Timur
: This man's final illness was documented by Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo, an ambassador of Henry III of Castile
Jury Selection
: This process can be lengthened by a "challenge for cause" or through a "peremptory challenge," in which no reason needs to be supplied
Maria Theresa
1Her minister Gerard van Swieten attempted to dispel supernatural phenomena like vampires
Mary Queen of Scots
3. Forces loyal to this woman lost to the forces of William Kirkcaldy of Grange at the Battle of Carberry Hill.
Han
4. During the rule of this dynasty, the explorer Zhang Qian brought back news of pomegranates and powerful horses after exploring the Ferghana Valley and making contact with the Yuezhi people
Labour Party
4. Upon election, this party implemented many reforms suggested by the Beveridge Report.
Kent State
: A photograph taken during this event depicts the 14-year-old runaway Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller
Louis XIV
: A public works project during the reign of this ruler connected the Étang de Thau to the Garonne and was originally named for Languedoc
South Carolina
: During the Revolutionary War, this US state was led by John Rutledge, who would later be appointed Chief Justice by George Washington, but rejected by the Senate because of fears he was insane.
Watergate
: During the trial surrounding this scandal, Martha Mitchell gained notoriety for maintaining her husband's innocence
1960
: In one debate in this election, a candidate compared the U.S. to a "goldfish bowl before the world," and later in this election, Quemoy and Matsu were described as "two little pieces of real estate."
Zimbabwe
: In this modern-day country, the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade led a four-year-long period ofpolitical terror known by a name which translates as "the early rain that washes away the chaff."
Korean War
: In this war, one side's aggressive "Home-by-Christmas" offensive was defeated after the other side's Second Phase Offensive forced battles in frigid locations such as a reservoir that reached negative 30 degrees Celsius
Senegal
: One island in this nation was home to the mixed-race "signares" (sig-NAR-eez). That island, Goree (GOR-ay) Island, was once the largest slave trading center in Africa.
Maria Theresa
: One of this ruler's ambassadors, Gottfried von Swieten (SVEET-n), was a noted patron of the arts.
Romania
: The "Letter of the Six" was written to one leader of this country before he was replaced by the National Salvation Front
Nicaragua
: The Dutch pirate Abraham Blauveldt gave his name to this country's city of Bluefields
Ghana
: The European presence in this country began with the Portuguese landing in Elmina
Easter Island
: The mythology of this civilization features a birdman cult headed by the chief Make-make.
South Africa
: This country's Reunited National Party won a 1948 election under Daniel Malan despite heavily losing the popular vote due to gerrymandering
Chernobyl
: This event caused the formation of the "Elephant Foot," from cooled black corium
serfs
A 1797 declaration by Paul I limiting these people's obligatory work requirement to just three days a week was largely ignored, and they were eventually required to provide payments for land that were abolished in 1907 under Nicholas (*) II.
Algerian War of Independence
A 1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo retold one campaign of this conflict
Aral Sea
A 1971 smallpox outbreak in a settlement near this body of water caused the deaths of three people
Sudan
A 2005 "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" ended this country's second civil war,
Haiti
A 2010 cholera outbreak here was linked to contamination of the Meye River, a tributary of this country's Artibonite River.
Belgium
A Belgian movement combining this ideology with Catholicism was led by Leon Degrelle and known as Rexism
Hieroglyphics
A Cartouche surrounded important names in this system.
Peasant Revolts
A French occurrence of this type was led in 1358 by Guillaume Cale. That one of these was called the Jacquerie because of the nickname given to its participants.
Slaves of Brasil
A Muslim subgroup ofthese people revolted in the Malê uprising
Akbar
A biography of this ruler was written by by Abu'l-Fazl, one of "Nine Jewels" at this ruler's royal court.
Heian
A book written during this time is basically just a collection of random lists and is known as the Pillow Book
Haiti
A ceremony including the drinking of pig's blood that was led by Dutty Boukman was a precursor to revolution in this colony.
Golden
A chain linked to the Tower of Galata spanned a bay named for a "Horn" with this quality when the bay was the home to the Byzantine Navy.
Algeria
A civil war broke out in this country after the Islamic FIS party won a majority in the 1990 election
Secretary General of the UN
A clerical job with the Wehrmacht led to controversy for (*) Kurt Waldheim, a holder of this position
Trenton
A commander at this battle, (*) Johann Rall, was not actually drunk from holiday festivities
Canada
A corps of troops from this country pioneered the tactic of creeping barrage during the Battle of Vimy Ridge
Carthage
A delaying tactic known as the Fabian strategy was used against this city after its victories at Lake Trasimene
Thatcher
A disagreement over a helicopter company led to the resignation of this leader's defense minister (*) Michael Heseltine
Charles Ii
A failed attempt to exclude this king's brother from the throne began after Titus Oates claimed that there was a "Popish Plot" to kill this king.
Boston massacre
A famous (*) depiction of this event features the sarcastic comment "Butcher's Hall" upon a row of buildings, and was inspired by an earlier engraving by Henry Pelham.
Zimbabwe
A fifteen year civil war in this country was known as the Bush War, and ended a majority white government under Ian Smith.
Benedict Arnold
A fleet assembled on the orders of this man was defeated at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain
Hungary
A general from this nation waged the "Long Campaign" before losing the Battle of Varna
Hadrian
A grain collection agency was converted by this man into his secret police, the Frumentarii
Gorbachev
A group of hard-liners called the "gang" of this many people carried out the failed August Putsch against Gorbachev
Ontario
A hereditary oligarchy known as the Family Compact ran this province and used the British aristocrats as their model
Hawaii
A jerky-like substance whose name means "beef rope" was eaten by the cowboys of this region. Those cowboys were called paniolo
Henry VII
A king of this name signed a free trade agreement benefitting his country's cloth merchants called the Intercursus Magnus
Morgan
A knighted privateer with this surname was unaware of an existing peace treaty when he accidentally invaded Spanish Panama,
Nuremberg
A large prison complex adjoins Courtroom 600 in this city's Palace of Justice, where a proceeding was prosecuted by Robert (*)) Jackson
Ghana
A leader of this country used the slogan "Seek ye first the political kingdom" after being freed from prison by Charles Arden-Clarke
Egypt
A legend about one of its early kings claims he fled across Lake Moeris on the back of a crocodile
Second Continental Congress
A letter sent to a member of this body notes that "all men would be tyrants if they could" and urged this body to (*) "Remember the Ladies."
Yorktown
A man nicknamed "the Green Dragoon" led a foraging party that fought Lauzun's Legion prior to this battle
Cyrus The Younger
A man of this name hired a Greek mercenary force in an effort to take over a country ruled by his brother, but instead lost his own life at the Battle of Cunaxa
Brutus
A man of this name, along with Collatinus, Lucretius, and Valerius, helped overthrow the Roman monarchy and became one of the first consuls.
London
A map designed by Harry Beck for this city only uses horizontal, vertical, and 45 degree lines
KKK
A member of this organization was acquitted in the Supreme Court Case establishing the standard of "imminent lawless action" for restricting free speech, Brandenburg v. Ohio
Tribune
A military position with this name was below (*) quaestor and aedile on the cursus honorum.
Peron
A minister known as "The Warlock" influenced a president of this surname during a period dubbed the "National Reorganization Process."
UK and Germany
A monarch of one of these two countries said that the people of the other country were as "mad as March hares."
Lion
A monument at Waterloo dedicated to William II features an iron statue of this creature
Cherokee
A newspaper called The Phoenix was published by this group
Charlemagne
A peace treaty between this man and Nikephoros I allowed for the de facto independence of Venice.
South Africa
A peoples in this country led by Cetshwayo defeated Britain at the Battle of Isandlwana.
Meiji
A plot to murder this ruler was uncovered in the High Treason Incident
Maine
A politician from this state wrote "Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher. Burn this letter" in one of the Mulligan letters
Robert The Bruce
A popular legend recounts how this man drew inspiration from seeing a spider spin a web while he hidin a cave on Rathlin Island
Florence
A popular republic was declared in this city after an invasion by Charles VIII of France seemed to fulfill earlier prophecies
Bay of Bengal
A port on this body of water is the site of the former Fort St. George
Colombia
A pre-colonial people of this country worshipped the sun and moon in the form of Sué and Chía and were ruled by a zipa and a zaque
Iran Nuclear Program
A presidential tweet falsely claimed Bob Corker to have supported a plan regarding this program that he actually vehemently opposed
1988
A primary candidate in this election asked why he was the "first in his family ever to go to a university" in a speech plagiarizing Neil Kinnock.
2000
A primary candidate in this election travelled on a bus that the press labelled the "Straight Talk Express." That candidate accused the eventual winner of this election of courting "agents of intolerance" after a speech at Bob Jones University
San Francisco
A professor in this city named Sally Miller Gearhart campaigned against the Briggs Initiative
Tang
A rebellion by nobles of this dynasty was crushed by its usurper, (*) Empress Wu Zetian
Irish Potato Famine
A rebellion during this event targeted the town of Ballingarry, but was defeated by police forces
White Lotus Rebellion
A revolt from 1796 to 1804 is usually named for this color and was led by the same sect behind the Red Turban Rebellion
Belgium
A revolution in this nation was sparked during a special performance of the opera The (*) Mute Girl of Portici.
Idaho
A river in this state is nicknamed "The River of No Return," and flows near this state's Lost River Range
Stuart
A ruler from this dynasty delineated the four main types of evil spirits in his book on black magic, the Daemonologie.
Indonesia
A ruler of this country hired a group of economists known as the "Berkeley Mafia" to help grow this country's economy
Mauryan Empire
A ruler of this empire killed 99 of his brothers to seize the throne.
North Sea
A sandbank in this body of water gives its name to the hypothetical land bridge Doggerland.
Guyana
A savanna between this country's western border and the Rupununi River is said to be the former site of Lake Parime and El Dorado
Qin Shi huang
A strongman ordered to throw a metal cone at a carriage, a blind musician using a lead-tipped lute, and a man bearing a dagger wrapped in a map all attempted to assassinate this man
St. Louis
A terra-cotta office building in this city was designed by Dankmar Adler and a man known as the (*) "Father of Skyscrapers."
Puritans
A thousand of them presented the king with the Millenary Petition, enabling them to receive a voice at the Hampton Court Conference
Montana
A town in Silver Bow County is named for the Continental Divide that runs from Canada through the west of this state
Tenochtitlan
A two-way aqueduct in this city was designed in part by a poet whose name translates as "hungry coyote
Kublai Khan
A war between him and Ariq Boke laid waste to his empire's capital, later replaced by the city of Dadu
Gideon V. Wainwright
Abe (*) Fortas agreed to serve pro bono for this case
Potomac
Abel Upshur died on this river when the "Peacemaker" exploded
Darius I
According to Herodotus, the slave Oerbares helped this ruler gain the throne by making his horse neigh after he exposed the conspiracy of the false Smerdis with six other nobles
Turtle
According to legend, a golden one of these animals took a sword called Heaven's Will back fromVietnamese freedom fighter Le Loi
Augustus
According to the Treaty of Brundisium, he was given all western lands except Africa
Nebuchadnezzar II
According to the historian Berossus, this ruler predicted the fall of his empire
Crimean War
After Prince Menshikov lost the Battle of Inkerman during this war, Lord (*) Raglan was able to begin the Siege of Sevastopol.
pUERTO rICO
After World War II, a series of economic reforms in this place were called Operation (*) Bootstrap
Thatcher
After a dispute with this leader over the integration of Westland Helicopters, this leader's Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigned
Nasser
After a failed assassination attempt, this politician cracked down of the Wafd Party, and he created the Liberation Rally party.
Sacagawea
After a group of explorers identified Cameahwait ["kuh-may-ah-wait"] as this figure's long-lost brother, he gifted horses to those explorers. (*)
Napoleon III
After a homemade hand grenade missed his carriage, this leader survived an assassination attempt by Felice Orsini
Arthur Wellesley
After a publisher blackmailed this man over the memoirs of Harriette Wilson, he said, (*) "Publish and be damned!"
Carthage
After a war in which this city was defeated at the Battle of the Aegates Islands, it expanded its empire into Spain.
Kentucky
After arguing over wearing homespun garments on the senate floor, two politicians from this state fought a rather non-violent pistol duel which left Humphrey Marshall and his opponent lightly wounded
Francisco Pizarro
After governor Pedro de los Ríos denied this man resources for an expedition, the king gave him permission to use military force in the Capitulation of Toledo
Mansa Musa
After his general Sagmandia captured the city, this ruler returned to his kingdom with the sons of the Gao king as hostages
William WallaCE
After his most famous victory, the skin of Hugh Cressingham was used to make a belt for this man's sword
Saddam Hussein
After invading a neighboring country, this man promised to initiate the "mother of all battles" if other nations interfered
Louisianna
After it was used in this state, the Enforcement Act was ruled unconstitutional in United States v. Cruikshank.
Carthage
After its downfall, this city was effectively supplanted by Utica
Jackson
After leading a charge against Oliver Howard's right flank, he and his replacement A.P. Hill were both wounded.
Maori
After one of these people was whipped by a sea captain, they killed and ate more than 60 crew of the Boyd.
Detroit
After police raided a speakeasy in this city, angry patrons started the 12th Street Riot
Han
After seeing fields of cattle with no herdsmen, the Xiongnu ("she-awng-nu") evaded an ambush planned by this dynasty's army at the city of Mayi.
Joining the EU
After settling a border dispute with Slovenia, Croatia will take this action in 2013.
Diaz
After signing the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez with forces including Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa, this ruler was replaced by Francisco Madero as a result of the Mexican Revolution
Augustus
After squashing a pathetic rebellion by Lepidus, this man began a propaganda campaign that a rival was controlled by an "Oriental paramour."
Sepoy Mutiny
After taking a city in this conflict, William Hodson shot three men dead outside what became known as the "Bloody Gate
Alexandria
After the Battle of Actium, Mark Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide in this city, where (*) Euclid and Eratosthenes performed research during the Hellenistic Period
Indian Removal
After the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, George Gaines oversaw this event.
Jewish Ghetto
After the ZOB engineered a (*) revolt in one of these places, Jürgen Stroop was forced to burn that area block by block
Galveston
After the deadliest natural disaster in American history took place in this city, a 10-mile long (*) seawall was built to minimize future damage.
Pirate
After the death of her husband, Ching Shih became a leader of these people.
Spanish Succession
After the destruction of a treasure fleet at the Battle of Vigo Bay during this conflict, Pedro the Pacific signed the Methuen ("muh-THOO-in")
Angkor Wat
After the empire that built this structure was sacked, it was replaced by the Bayon temple
Cambodia
After the empire that built this structure was sacked, it was replaced by the Bayon temple
Tourss
After the treasure of the Abbey of Saint Martin was threatened, the winning commander answered the call of Duke Odo of Aquitaine for help
Song
After this dynasty lost its capital Kaifeng to a Jurchen invasion, it entered its "Southern" period of rapid growth
Teapot Dome
After this event, Congress' power to compel testimony was reaffirmed in McGrain v. Daugherty
Henry V
After this king's death from dysentery, his wife Catherine of Valois remarried Owen Tudor
Lake Victoria
Albinos form a large percentage of the population of Ukerewe Island in this body of water
Yorktown
Alexander Hamilton led an assault on Redoubt 10 during this battle
Simon Bolivar
Alexandre Petion supported this man under the condition he abolished slavery in any of the lands he acquired
poland
All members of this nation's parliament held the right to block any legislation, called the Liberum veto
Kentucky
Along with (*) Virginia, this state named some 1798 Resolutions, and this Virginia "backcountry" became a state in 1792.
Trotsky
Along with Alexander Parvus, he developed the theory of permanent revolution, and this man founded the Fourth International.
Sumner
Along with Carl Shurz, this politician led opposition to Ulysses Grant's attempted annexation of Santo Domingo
Machiavelli
Although he is not Sun Tzu, this man wrote a version of The Art of War
Frederick Barbarossa
Although he swore never to recognize Pope Alexander III at the Diet of Wurzburg in response to the machinations of Henry II, he eventually stopped his support of antipope Paschal III and gave in
Pancho Villa
Alvaro Obregon was victorious at the Battle of Celaya over this man's Division of the North.
Armenian Genocide
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau reported on resistance to this event in the city of Van
Beirut
American forces comically landed among sunbathers on the beaches of this city in Operation Blue Bat in 1958 after President Camille Chamoun supposedly requested US "assistance."
Transcontinental Railroad
An 1862 act issued bonds to a company in this industry established by Theodore Judah and financed by the Big Four
Belgium
An Adam Hochschild book titled for a king's ghost documents crimes in this country's colonial predecessor, which was also the subject of the (*) Casement Report.
wool
An English tax on this good was known as the "Great Custom,
Tang
An Lushan, a general of this dynasty, rebelled against it and caused its emperor to flee from Chang'an
Native Americans
An activist group of these people opposed the 1956 Termination Act and killed two FBI agents in (*) Pine Ridge in the 1970s
Guyana
An airstrip in this country's city of Port Kaituma was where the (*) Red Brigade assassinated Congressman Leo Ryan
Witch
An apparent one of these people named Johannes Junius wrote a letter to his daughter from jail, after he was caught up in an event in Bamberg named for its focus on hundreds of these people
Venezuela
An area in this country is known for its frequent flashes of lightning, and is located at the mouth of the Catatumbo River
Midway
An attack on the Hiryu prompted Vice Admiral Yamaguchi to go down with his ship at this battle
English Civil War
An attempt to end this conflict failed when one side refused to sign the Treaty of Newport.
Georgia
An attempt to invade this state was stopped by men like Noble Jones at the Battle of Bloody Marsh, which occurred during the War of Jenkins' Ear
Sewer System
An early example of these systems was installed within every home in Lothal
Merovingian Dynasty
An early ruler of this dynasty defeated the Roman official Syagrius and was the first to unite all of his peoples
Bulgars
An empire ruled by these people included a school at Preslav where the Cyrillic alphabet was developed
Toba
An eruption of this ancient supervolcano, now a lake in Sumatra, may have caused a long global winter and a bottleneck in human population 70,000 years ago.
Jamaica
An expedition led by William Penn the Elder brought thisisland under the control of (*)) Great Britain
Mexico
An international boycott of this country began in 1938 after its president invoked Article 27 of its Constitution of 1917, nationalizing a prominent industry.
Uk and Spain
An invasion by one of these two countries into the other's colony was halted at the Battle of Bloody Marsh.
Mediterranean Sea
An island in this body of water contains the megalithic temples of Tarxien and Skorba, believed to be the world's oldest freestanding structures until the discovery of Gobekli Tepe
Thirty Years War
An offshoot of this war was ended at the Treaty of the Pyrenees.
Suez Canal Crisis
An operation during this conflict had its original name changed due to British troops spray painting "H" on their vehicles while the French sprayed "A" due to a difference in spelling "Hamilcar."
Scotland
Andrew Moray led a rebellion in the northern part of this country in the name of John Balliol.
Savonarola
Angry mobs made up of the Arrabbiati and Compagnacci fought with supporters of this man called the Frateschi in a clash at (*) San Marco's
Russian Revolution
Anna Anderson falsely claimed to be one person imprisoned during and executed after this war
Washington DC
Another building in this city was designed by (*) James Hoban and was made out of painted sandstone.
Spartacus's Revolt
Another commander in this war died at the Battler of the Siler River.
King of Sweden
Another holder of this position overthrew Augustus the Strong and placed Stanislaus I on the throne of Poland.
Pope
Another holder of this position, Formosus, was exhumed and tried posthumously.
Richard I
Another king with this first name negotiated with Tancred of Lecce to free his imprisoned sister Joan and fought the Battle of Jaffa
Crete
Another large city in this place frequently adorned buildings with a double headed axe known as the labrys.
Ethiopia
Another leader of these people was Zara Yakob, and translation difficulties in the Treaty of Wuchale led to an invasion of these people, who were victorious at the ensuing Battle of Adwa.
Mali
Another leader of this nation hired the architect Es-Saheli and was a descendent of Faga Laye.
Vespucci
Another letter this explorer wrote was titled Mundus Novus, and he may have gone from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in 1497 and 1498
James II
Another man defeated the Duke of Monmouth, leading to the (*) 'Bloody Assizes', and lost the battle of the Boyne.
Dulles
Another member of this family was kidded for his "pactomania," which referred to his fondness for signing treaties
Electronegativity
Another model of this quantity uses Slater's rules and divides the effective nuclear charge of the atom divided by covalent radius squared; that model is named after Allred and Rochow. A
Nigeria
Another river in this country is the (*) Cross River, which begins in neighboring Cameroon.
Scotland
Another ruler of this country was forced to flee after he was defeated at the Battle of Methven
Ghana
Another war between the British and this kingdom resulted in the capture of its King Prempeh I.
Dreyfus Affair
Antonio Panizzardi's homosexual affair with Maximilian von Schwarzkoppen was used to discredit the main figure of this event.
Guano
Anybody who found land with this product, often obtained on the Chincha Islands, could annex it by its namesake "Islands Act
Hadrian
Apollodorus of Damascus was supposedly killed for criticizing the design of the Temple of Venus and Roma that this emperor built where Nero's Domus Aurea once stood
Wool
Approximately 13,000 people briefly gained access to political office following a revolt led by people who worked with this good who seized the Palazzo Vecchio in 1378.
Dresden
Arthur Harris of the Royal Air Force supported an attack on this city that Winston Churchill called a "mere act of terror.
Neville Chaimberlain
As Chancellor of the Exchequer, this politician pushed the "Imperial Preference" tariff that had first been proposed by his father, Joseph.
Colombia
As a result of high sugar tariffs and dissatisfaction with the Salomon-Lozano Treaty, this country was invaded by a southern neighbor during the Leticia Incident
Aparthied
As part of the Gleneagles Agreement, Commonwealth countries agreed to protest this policy.
Qin
Assisted by chancellor Li Si, the first emperor of this dynasty organized massive (*) book-burnings and scholar-buryings
Nuremberg
At an event in this city, 130 evenly-space anti-aircraft searchlights formed a "cathedral of light
Champlain
At the Battle of Sorel during the Beaver Wars, he allied with the Algonquin and Huron tribes to defeat the Iroquois
Golden Horde
At the Battle of the Terek River, that leader Tokhtamysh was defeated by Tamerlane.
Julius Cesare
At the Lucca Conference, this man directed his allies to run for the consulship and, in return, extend his governorship by another five years.
HungaRY
At the Melbourne Olympics, this country's (*) water polo team was victorious over a larger one in the Blood in the Water Match.
Winter War
At the end of this war, the losing side leased the Hanko Peninsula as a naval base
Antietam
At this battle, General George Sears Greene quickly captured and retreated from Dunker Church
Gettysburg
At this battle, the First Minnesota regiment relieved the III Corps of Daniel Sickles, who lost his leg at the Wheatfield.
3rd Century
Aurelian helped end the crisis named for this century by bringing those empires back under Roman control.
Marcus Aurelius
Avidius Cassius organized a revolt after believing this man had died of illness.
Bull Run
Barnard Bee was killed at this battle, but not before noting that Thomas Jackson's brigade was standing "like a stone wall."
Orinoco
Competition from the spectacled caiman ("KAY-min") has helped drive this river's namesake species of huge crocodile to critically endangered status
Argentina
Hipólito Yrigoyen led this nation through World War I, during which this country experienced a boom
Nagasaki
Because he returned to this city after a business trip, Tsutomu Yamaguchi became the only officially recognized (*) "double" hibakusha
Francis
Before becoming king, the second French monarch of this name became King Consort of (*) Scotland by marrying Mary, Queen of Scots.
Ohio
Before moving to Florida, Henry Flagler helped to jumpstart Standard Oil in one of this state's cities.
Kadesh
Before this battle, one side gained intelligence from two Shashu that falsely reported that the enemy army was in Aleppo
Rhode Island
Benjamin Church and Governor Josiah Winslow led this state in the Great Swamp Fight
West Germany
Benno Ohnesorg was killed by a policeman while protesting a visit by the Shah of Iran to this nation
Portugal
Besides the Liberal Wars, another civil war in this nation, the 1383-85 crisis, was ended after the Battle of Aljubarrota.
Justinian I
Besides the Vandalic War, this man also fought a war with (*) Khosrau I, which he ended after paying 11,000 pounds of gold and establishing an "eternal peace."
Tang
Both empires of the Gokturks were defeated during this dynasty
1920's
Both the Liberal and Labour parties in the United Kingdom lost many seats partly due to the Zinoviev letter, ending Ramsay McDonald's first term
Detroit
Bridges in this city include the MacArthur Bridge and the Ambassador Bridge
Saratoga
British forces held the Balcarres Redoubt but lost the Breymann Redoubt
KGB
Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov was poisoned by this organization using a (*) ricin pellet hidden inside an umbrella
Tang
By many accounts, the only female emperor ever interrupted this dynasty, which was attacked by a rebellion that lead to the execution of Yang Guifei, one of the Four Beauties
Dien Bien Phu
Béatrice ("bay-uh-TREES") was the first stronghold to be stormed by the victors in this battle.
South Dakota
Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok are buried in the former boom town of (*) Deadwood in this state where in 1874 gold was found in the Black Hills
Marathon
Callimachus was killed during this battle
Marathon
Callimachus was killed during this battle, but his men saved (*) Miltiades' Athenian forces after their center line buckled
Red baron
Canadian Roy Brown is credited with killing this man at Amiens (AH-mee-EN), leading to this person's replacement as commander by Hermann Goring (GERR-ing).
Rhode Island
Canochet's Fort was in this modern-day state where Josiah Winslow won the GreatSwamp Fight
Greenland
Cape Farewell is the only forested area on this island.
Greenland
Cape Morris Jesup is regarded as the northernmost point in this region.
Hungarian Revolution
Cardinal (*) Mindszenty ["MEEND-sen-tee"] was freed from prison during this event
Sitting BUll
Caroline Weldon served as this leader's personal secretary but left shortly before he was killed by Lieutenant Henry Bullhead and Red Tomahawk
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded this woman as head of the NAWSA
Ellis Island
Castle Garden was replaced by this location
Belgium
Chancellor Bethmann Hollwegg commented that Germany was going to war over a "scrap of paper" after Germany violated a policy concerning this country
Hungary
Chancellor Metternich fled (*) when this country revolted against Franz Josef,
Joining the EU
Charles De Gaulle once said "Non" to prevent the United Kingdom from taking this action
Hapsburg
Charles II of Spain had this inbred family's namesake (*)) jawline
Gallipoli Campaign
Charles Monro replaced Ian Hamilton as Allied commander
Yorktown
Charles O'Hara presented the losing general's sword to the victor in this battle
DIen Bien phu
Charles Piroth committed suicide here with a hand grenade after failing to dislodge enemy artillery
Irish Potato Famine
Charles Trevelyan claimed that this event was "an all-wise and all-merciful Providence
Magellan
Charles V gave this man the Victoria and the Trinidad
PEters the great
Civil services observed during this event inspired the Table of Ranks.
The Draft
Cohen v. California was ruled in favor of a man who showed up to a courtroom wearing a jacket making this practice the subject of obscenity
Little Bighorn
Commanders of the winning side included Gall and White Bull
Timur
Conquests of this man include his victory at (*) the Battle of Ankara and his capture of Delhi, the latter of which may have caused up to 200,000 casualties
Nicholas I
Count Von Ficquelmont helped steer the foreign policy of this man, who promoted Sergey Uvarov's "Official Nationality" doctrine of "Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.
sUEZ cANAL Crisis
Countries secretly agreed to participate in this conflict in the Protocol of Sèvres.
Porfirio diaz
Cries of this ruler's earlier slogan "effective suffrage, no reelection!" arose against him after he reneged on a promise to (*) retire given in an interview with James Creelman
Oil
Croatian immigrant Anthony Lucas built a facility to produce this resource at the Spindletop
Robespierre
Cécile Renault planned to kill this man, so this man had Renault and her family executed
DRC
Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash en route to this country to negotiate a cease-fire with Moise Tshombe
Gold Rush
Dawson City became a (*) boom town following one of these events
Gold Rush
Dawson City became a boom town of over 37 times its current population after one of these events
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Days after it occurred, targets of this event were offered a ten-year tax holiday in a proclamation issued from Potsdam
Wine
Decades after his country secured a market for this product in England by the Methuen Treaty, the Marquis of Pombal created a national company to regulate its quality.
West Germany
Defector Werner Stiller helped this country identify "the man without a face," Markus Wolf.
Roger Sherman
Despite being originally opposed to the idea of replacing the Articles of Confederation, this man would go on to propose the Connecticut Compromise.
Utah
Devil's Garden is a feature of this state's (*) Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
MLK JR
Doctors dubbed him "a sneeze away from death" after Izola Ware Curry stabbed him with a letter opener
CSA
Due to a blockade by a neighboring country, Mary Jackson led a bread riot in this country's capital
Quebec
Due to provisions adopted in the overnight "Kitchen Accord," this region has not ratified its country's 1982 Constitution, an issue not changed by the 1987 Meech Lake Accord.
Pinochet
During Operation Colombo, this man's DINA secret police eliminated and abducted dissidents
Wagon
During Red Cloud's War, these objects were used for defense by American soldiers at a namesake "Box Fight"
Hungary
During WWII, Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews in this country by them issuing Swedish passports
Canada
During a joint operation with the CIA, (*) six American diplomats were freed in a mission known as"this country's" caper.
Boris Yeltsin
During a revolt against the previous leader of his country, the August Coup, this man gave (*) a speech atop a tank
Marcus Aurelius
During a successful campaign against Vologases IV, this emperor's forces sacked the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon
Scootland
During an invasion of this country, one ruler created the largest trebuchet ever, nicknamed the "Warwolf". That invasion of this country featured a battle where Hugh de Cressingham died
Ford
During his Presidency, ten Marines were killed in a rescue operation on the Mayaguez.
Vasco Da Gama
During his expeditions for Manuel I, this person erected many padraos, including one still standing at Malindi.
Kamakura
During much of this period, political control rested with the shikken or regent
Texas
During one conflict in this nation, Angelina Eberly fired upon Thomas Smith with a howitzer as he attempted to remove papers from one building. That conflict is known as this nation's Archive War, and began in response to one of Mirebeau Lamar's policies
Seminoles
During one conflict, this people abandoned log houses in favor of thatched-roof structures called chickees
Wounded Knee
During one event at this location, Richard Wilson's GOONs were forced away by federal agents, and Russell Means demanded negotiations with the United States.
Hong Kong
During one invasion of this region, injured soldiers were massacred at St. Stephen's College.
Invasion of japan
During one of these events, the Eastern Route Army attacked without the aid of the Southern Route Army at the Battle of Koan
Banking
During the 15th century, several colonies in the Black Sea were governed by a Genoan firm in this industry named after Saint George
Puerto Rico
During the 1950's, gunmen from this place opened fire in the U.S. Capitol and earlier tried to assassinate Harry Truman at Blair House as part of a nationalist campaign
Crossing a River
During the Battle of Fredericksburg, Union forces performed this action while under fire from sharpshooters.
Sumner
During the Bleeding Kansas Crisis, this man delivered the (*)) "Crime Against Kansas" speech, which verbally attacked Andrew Butler, one of the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Woman's Suffrage
During the Night of Terror, activists for this cause were beaten in the Occoquan Workhouse
Railroad
During the Russo-Japanese war, the limitations of this industry on the Russian side contributed to their defeat, due to the proximity of the Japanese side.
Napoleonic Wars
During the economic depression following these foreign conflicts, mounted yeomanry charged into a crowd gathered to hear orator (*) Henry Hunt in Manchester
Savonarola
During the overthrow of this leader, the gates of San Marco were set on fire by rioters angry over the cancellation of a public trial-by-fire
Atlanta
During the progressive administration of Ivan Allen, Jr. this city labeled itself as "the city too busy to hate",
Silk
During the reign of Frederick the Great, thousands of mulberry trees were planted across Germany to aid in the production of this good.
Han
During the rule of this dynasty, the explorer Zhang Qian brought back news of pomegranates and powerful horses after exploring the Ferghana Valley and making contact with the Yuezhi people
Agincourt
During this battle, the losing side stole a crown that belonged to the winning monarch
Vicksburg
During this battle, the smaller Battle of Milliken's Bend secured Union control
Verdun
During this battle, the so-called "Sacred Way" provided troops and supplies to this battle
3RD CENTURY
During this century, the Plague of Cyprian devastated one city
Russo Japanese War
During this conflict, General Kuropatkin organized a retreat after losing 90,000 men in the Battle of Mukden
Zhou
During this dynasty, a feudalism-like social structure based around four occupations, the fēngjiàn ["fung-jee-EN"] system, was codified by a duke from its ruling family
Tang
During this dynasty, its capital of Chang'an was the most populous city in the world, and woodblock printing was invented
Qin
During this dynasty, one emperor's dead body traveled alongside carts of fish to mask its smell
Assassination of JFK
During this event and its aftermath, James Tague received minor lacerations to the face,
Harrison
During this man's presidency, the stabbing of two American sailors in Chile resulted in the Baltimore Crisis
Three kingdoms
During this period, a general supposedly sailed unmanned boats down a river to draw enemy arrow fire, then equipped his troops with the captured arrows
Kamakura
During this period, two Mongol invasions were thwarted by typhoons known as kamikaze
Mexican-American War
During this war, one politician received the nickname "spotty" because of his offering the spot resolutions against this war
World War I
During this war, the Committee on Public Information was led by (*)) George Creel
War of the Triple Alliance
During this war, the French Count of Eu led veteran troops to victory against mostly underage soldiers in beards at the Battle of Acosta Nu.
World War I
During this war, the Yser River was flooded at its mouth on the North Sea to prevent enemyadvances
Santa Anna
Early in his career he saved his country from Isidro Barradas, earning him the nickname of the "Hero of Tampico".
henry VII
Early in this man's reign, John de la Pole revolted, trying to pass off Lambert Simnel as the Earl of Warwick
sICILY
Early inhabitants of this island included the Elymi
Charles martel
Edward Gibbon commented that without this ruler's most famous victory, "perhaps the ... (*) Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford."
Boston
Edwin Curtis denied his employee's right to form a union during a 1919 (*) police strike in this city.
West Germany
Egon Bahr served as secretary of state for this country and described relations with another country as "change through rapprochement
Little BigHorn
Eight days before this event, George Crook had been defeated at the Battle of the Rosebud, preventing him from helping this battle's losing side
Sahara
Emi Koussi is the highest peak in the (*) Tibesti Mountains in this geographical region
San Francisco
Emperor Norton once reigned in this city
Tang
Emperor Xuanzong led this dynasty to its greatest extent
Samurai
English sailor William Adams was "reborn" as a man in this profession so he could permanently serve a leader
Panama
Eric Delvalle (del-va-yay) attempted to overthrow a leader of this country whose paramilitary beat up Billy Ford and were known as the Dignity Battalions
Hungarian Revolution
Erno Gero wasplaced in power in the leadup to this event
Gregory
Ethelbert was converted by Augustine, a monk dispatched to Kent by this pope
Belgium
Eupen-Malmedy was awarded to this nation after one war in which its neutrality was called "a (*) scrap of paper"
Han
Every member of Empress Lu's clan was killed during this dynasty.
Singapore
Extensive slum clearance by its HDB in the 1960s has led to over 80% of this country's population living in public housing provided by its ruling People's Action Party
Russo-Japanese War
Fedor Keller was defeated in this war at the Battle of Motien Pass,
otto Von Bismarck
Ferdinand Cohen Blind slashed his own throat after failing to assassinate this politician.
Georgia
Forces under the leader of this colony won the Battle of Bloody Marsh during the War of Jenkins'
Tito
Forces under this commander freed the Republic of Uzice
House of Orange
Following a French Invasion during the "disaster year," rioters loyal to this dynasty hanged Johan de Witt ("YO-han deh VITT").
marco polo
Following the Battle of Curzola, he was imprisoned and met Rustichello da Pisa, who wrote a book of this man's accomplishments titled Il Milione
Verdun
Following the Battle of Fontenoy, the signers of the Oath of Strasbourg signed a treaty in this city which was later modified by the Treaty of Meerssen
Qin Shi huang
Following this man's death, two carriages carrying rotten fish were drawn behind this man's wagon in order to hide the smell of this man's decaying body
Jury Selection
For 10 points, give the term for this act of picking a group of people who determine the outcome of a legal trial.
Mithridates
For 10 points, name this "Great" king of Pontus.
Lydia
For 10 points, name this Anatolian empire whose ruler Croesus was defeated by Cyrus the Great.
Roger Sherman
For 10 points, name this Founding Father, the only man other than Robert Morris to sign the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution
Secretary-General of the UN
For 10 points, name this chief administrative office of the United Nations, formerly held by Ban Ki-Moon and currently held by Antonio Guterres.
Council of Constance
For 10 points, name this church council of the early 1400's that executed Jan Hus (yawn HOOS) and ended the Western Schism
Gideon V. Wainwright
For 10 points, name this landmark 1961 case which stated that states must provide attorneys to those who could not afford one, incorporating the 6th amendment.
Heian
For 10 points, name this period followed by the Kamakura shogunate; the last period of Japanese classical history
Sulla
For 10 points, name this rival of Marius, leader of the Optimates, and Roman dictator.
North Carolina
For 10 points, name this state that was the site of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in the American Revolution
Sui
For 10 points, name this three-emperor dynasty that was succeeded by the Tang.
Louis XV
For a time, his finance minister was the incompetent Scottish economist John Law, whose policies caused the (*) Mississippi Bubble
Battle of Trenton
For ten points, name this battle in which the victorious Continental Army led by George Washington defeated Hessian soldiers on Christmas Eve
cONSTantine
For unclear reasons, this man ordered his wife Fausta to besuffocated in an overheated bath
Pancho Villa
His Division of the North won the Battle of Zacatecas
Hugenots
Fort Caroline in Florida was established to shelter these people
Alfred The Great
Fortifications that this man designed are listed in the Burghal Hidage
Ashoka
Four lions sit atop the pillar this ruler had built in Sarnath
Impressment
Four men were subject to this practice in the Chesapeake-Leopard affair,prompting Thomas Jefferson to sign the retaliatory Embargo Act
Thirty Years War
France's involvement in this war was finished under (*) Cardinal Mazarin
South Carolina
Francis Marion, and a man nicknamed the (*)) "Gamecock of the Revolution".
War of the Triple Alliance
Francisco Barroso won the most major naval battle of this war at Riachuelo
1976
Frank Church and Jerry Brown led a movement called "anyone but" this election's winner
Philippines
Frederick Funston captured this country's first president, (*) Emilio Aguinaldo
Huguenots
Frederick William protected these people in Prussia with the Edict of (*) Potsdam
hUGENots
Frederick William protected these people in Prussia with the Edict of (*) Potsdam
louis XVI
His advisor Maurepas appointedTurgot as finance minister
Cascades
From this range's terminus at Lytton Mountain, the Fraser River flows between it and the Coast Range
Ethiopia
Frumentius of Tyre traveled to these people, who were then led by King Ezana
Indonesia
Gajah Mada was an influential leader of this country's Majapahit ["mah-juh-pah-hit"] empire.
Ghana
Garnet Wolseley sacked its imperial capital of (*) Kumasi
Justinian I
Gelimer. That conflict ended after one of this man's generals defeated Gelimer at the Battle of Tricamarum.
sicily
Gelon and Dionysius were among the tyrants of a city on this island
Pinochet
General Joaquin Lagos resigned after 56 residents of Antofagasta were killed by this leader's (*) "Caravan of Death
Dublin
General John Maxwell declared martial law and executed a series of prisoners in this city's Kilmainham Jail
Louis XIV
Generals for this ruler included the Prince of Condé and Turenne, who won the Battle of the (*) Dunes
Stamp Act
George Grenville proposed this tax, which could not be paid in colonial paper money
Leopold II
George Washington Williams coined the term "crimes against humanity" in an exposé denouncing abuses committed in this colony by groups like the Force Publique ("poo-BLEEK"), who enforced rubber quotas
Railroad
George Westinghouse invented the air brake for this industry
Coca Cola
Georgy Zhukov imported a "White" version of this substance despite a ban
Elizabeth I
Gilbert Gifford worked as a double agent to Sir Walsingham in order to protect this ruler from the ( ∗ ) Babington plot.
Denmark
Gorm the Old's son christianized this country just before the year 1000,
Puerto Rico
Governor Rexford Tugwell helped organize urbanization in this place
North Carolina
Governor William Tryon was victorious in the Battle of Alamance in this state in 1771, which quashed the (*)) Regulator Rebellion
80's
Grey Wolf assassin Mehmet Ali Agca attempted to kill Pope John Paul II during this decade
Joan Of Arc
Guillaume de Flavy stranded this figure outside the gates of Compeigne by lifting a drawbridge too soon
Sicily
Gylippus organized a defense of this island
Hoover Dam
Harold Ickes (ICK-uhs) lambasted the eventual namesake of this project for "tak[ing] credit for something he had nothing to do with."
London Underground
Harry Beck's map of this system deliberately only used horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines.
Marcus Aurelius
He and his adoptive brother Lucius Verus ruled together after the death of his predecessor (*) Antoninus Pius
Charles I
He appointed the unpopular Archbishop of Canterbury, (*)) William Laud
Machiavelli
He asserted the primacy of the republic over other forms of government in his Discourses on Livy.
Kublai Khan
He attempted to conquer Java
Pope John Paul II
He began the celebration of World Youth Day
Garibaldi
He defeated a French army at the Janiculum Hill although he was later made a member of the French National Assembly for his efforts in the Franco-Prussian War
Simon Bolivar
He escaped an assassination attempted after issuing the Organic Decree of Dictatorship
Blackbeard
He grounded several ships in Beaufort Inlet before seeking that pardon
Darius i
He had a servant remind him every day "Master, remember the Athenians" after suppressing the Ionian revolt they had supported, but his army was defeated by Miltiades at ( ∗ ) Marathon.
Trajan
He had several projects built by Apollodorus of Damascus, including his namesake Market and Forum
Tito
He led his country through the Informbiro period,
Machiavelli
He noted Cesare Borgia as a rare case of a successful (*) ruler who gained power through luck, rather than force
Vlad The Impaler
He outwitted Mehmed II in the Night Attack, but he later lost the siege of Poenari Castle due to the janissaries under his brother,( ∗ ) Radu the Handsome.
Porfirio Diaz
He overthrew Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada with a slogan of "No Re-Election."
Erwin Rommel
He rose to prominence after capturing a 10,000-man division retreating after Caporetto
Coolidge
He signed the Curtis-Crisp Act after vetoing a farm relief bill sponsored by Haugen and McNary
Mongol
He was elected to his highest position by a kurultai after the death of his brother Mongke
Spartacus
He was killed fighting( ∗ ) Crassus at the Battle of the Siler River.
Hadrian
He was known for his villa at Tivoli
Columbus
He was promised the title Admiral of the Ocean Sea in the "Capitulations of (*) Santa Fe", the agreement he made with Ferdinand and Isabella
Machiavelli
He wrote a critique ofRoman history in his Discourses on Livy.
Witches
Henrich Kramer published a book centering on these people titled (*) Malleus Maleficaru
Alcohol
Henry D. Cogswell and Simon Benson were noted for building machines named for the fact that they did not contain this substance
Jamaica
Henry Morgan served as lieutenant governor of this island
Tasmania
Hikers on this island often walk the Overland Track in its Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park
Gladstone
His education minister, William Forster, worked to set up school boards and secret ballot voting within the government of this man's nation.
Tiberius
His father of the same name fought in the civil war against his predecessor, but it was his mother, Livia Drusilla, that secured his rise to power
Shah
His predecessor in this position was a member of the Cossack Brigade who deposed the Qajar dynasty
d-DAy
Hobart's Funnies proved very successful in this event
Tank
Hobart's Funnies, such as the Churchill Crocodile, were modified versions of this weapon meant for amphibious crossings
Dreyfus Affair
Hubert-Joseph Henry slit his own throat after earlier forging a letter during this event.
Germany
Huge numbers of people in a colony controlled by this country died when they fled into the Omaheke Desert and were cut off from water
Gettysburg
Hundreds of men fighting under James Archer were captured in McPherson's Woods during this battle
Cyrus the Great
I. An ancient cylinder named after this man has been described as the world's "first charter of human rights.q
New South Wales
In 1813, Gregory Blaxland found a way through the Blue Mountains, which lie to the west of this state's most populous city
Qatar
In 1940, oil was discovered in this country's city of Dukhan
Dieppe Raid
In 1942, British and Canadian forces, under the command of Admiral Mountbatten, raided this French port.. A "pinch" mission led by Ian Fleming to capture Enigma machines may have occurred during this raid.
Mississippi
In 1964, the Freedom Summer campaign was initiated in this state to register African-American voters
north korea
In 1968, this country heightened Cold War tensions with the US by seizing the research ship Pueblo.
Peron
In 1971 this person's body was found in Milan under the name "Maria Maggi."
Chile
In 2019, protesters in the south of this country cut off the head of a statue of Pedro de Valdivia and replaced it with that of a (*) Mapuche fighter
Puerto Rico
In August 2015, this government defaulted on a payment to its Public Finance Corporation as it struggled with a 72 billion (*) dollar debt
Robert F. Kennedy
In Cape Town, a member of this family called for a "ripple of hope" in his "Day of Affirmation" speech
Napoleonic Invasion of Russian
In one of its last events, one force was decimated by cannonfire while struggling to cross two flimsy bridges over the Berezina River
Exiles to Australia
In one rebellion led by members of this non-Irish group, a battle known as its country's "Battle of Vinegar Hill" was lost by insurrectionaries who proclaimed "Death or Liberty.
Louis XIV
In order to boost his country's economy, this monarch banned Venetian glass exports
Henry VII
In order to legitimize his wife this man repealed the Titulus Regius
cleveland
In reference to his illegitimate child, opponents of this politician answered the chant "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa" with "Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!"
Railroad
In the (*) Mukden Incident, a staged Japanese sabotage in this industry was used to justify the invasion of Manchuria. O
Navajo
In the 1860s, General James Carleton forcibly removed members of this tribe to Fort Sumner in the Long (*) Walk to Bosque Redondo ("BO-skay ray-DOHN-doh").
Philippines
In the 1930s, this country's path towards independence was defined in the Tydings-McDuffie Act
CSA and Uk
In the Battle of Cherbourg, the Kearsage sank a ship one of these nations had built for the other
The Draft
In the Confederate States of America, this practice was modified by the "twenty-negro law"
Charles II
In the Exclusion Crisis, Parliament tried to remove this king's brother from the lines of succession due to his Catholicism
poland and russia
In the early 17th century, Kuzma Minin and Dmitri Pozharsky defended one of these historic nations from the other, which had recently captured its capital after winning the Battle of Klushino. A
Six Day War
In the leadup to this conflict, U Thant's peacekeeping forces withdrew from a piece of land later returned in UN Resolution 242
Persian Gulf War
In the leadup to this conflict, the PR firm of Hill & Knowlton secretly hired a woman known only as Nurse Nayirah to give false testimony to Congress
Partition of India
In the leadup to this event, mobs gathered at the Ochterlony Monument on Direct Action Day
Pyongyang
In the mud banks near this city, Welsh missionary Robert Thomas was killed when his ship, the General Sherman, was seized on a mission to open its country up to Western trade
Gideon V. Wainwright
In the retrial resulting from this case, the plaintiff in this case chose W. Fred Turner to represent him. L
prague
In the sixteenth century, a rabbi called the Maharal allegedly used a shem to create a golem in this city.
Pearl harbor
In this battle targets included Hickam Air Field
Syracuse
In this city, the underprivileged killyrioi natives worked land owned by the foreign gamoroi elite.
Haiti
In this colony, the Decree of 15 May was enforced by civil commissioner Sonthonax.
Six-Day War
Initial losses in it, including attacks on the (*) Bar Lev Line, hurt the military reputation of an eye-patch-sporting hero named Moshe Dayan.
Knights Templar
Innocent II's bull "Omne Datum Optimum" gave this group extraordinary privileges, including being exempted from all authority other than the Pope
King John
Innocent III excommunicated him because he refused to recognize (*) Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bronze
Invasions by the Sea Peoples and the (*) collapse of civilizations such as Mycenae marked the end of the period named for this substance
Nazi
It was founded as the DAP by Anton Drexler, who was sponsored by the Thule Society
Fall of Saigon
Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" was the signal to go to places such as the airport and the (*)) Defense Attaché Office to prepare for Operation Frequent Wind.
Han
It was opposed by the Trung sisters and the Five Pecks of Rice movement
The Prince
It claims that the title figure must be both cunning like a fox and powerful like a lion, as evidenced by the success of Cesare Borgia
Nazi
It consolidated its power after Rinus van der Lubbe was executed for an act of arson
Liberal Party
It criticized its opposition's support of the Ottoman Empire during the Midlothian campaign.
Missouri
It forms near Three Forks where the (*)) Gallatin, Jefferson, and Madison rivers meet
Excommunication
It is often said that an interdict is a form of this process applied to a whole polity.
Han
It was brought to an end by the Yellow Turban Rebellion,
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was ended with the resolution of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Claudette Colvin that resulted in Browder v. Gayle
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was ended with the resolution of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Claudette Colvin that resulted in Browder v. Gayle.
Spanish Inquisition
It was established by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478
Danelaw
It was established by the (*)) Treaty of Wedmore, which was signed by Guthrumand Alfred the Great
Song
It was the first in the world to use paper money.
qIN
It was the first to standardize weights, measures, currency, and the small seal script
South Africa
It's not France, but this country's forces invaded a neighboring country during its civil war as part of Operation Savannah
port
It's not a colony, but Claudius and Trajan expanded Rome's chief place of this type, Ostia
Pakistan
Its city of (*) Peshawar lies southeast of the Khyber Pass
Mauryan
Its final ruler fought an invasion by Demetrius I and was assassinated by hisgeneral Pusyamitra
utah
Its highest point, Kings Peak, is located in this state's Uinta Mountains
Manila
Its modern incarnation was foundedafter negotiations with the "Three Rajahs" by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
Syria
Jabhat al-Nusra, has been responsible for the murder of Mohammed al-Saeed and a mass execution at Deiz ez-Zor in this country
DC
Jacob Coxey led one of these events in support of unemployment relief
Cuba
Jardines del Rey is part of this country's Sabana-Camaguey archipelago, and this country lies across the Gulf of Batabano from the Isla de Juventud
Hieoglyphics
Jean-Fran¸cois Champollion finally deciphered this system.
Second Continental Congress
John Dickinson led this convention in writing and sending the Olive Branch Petition
Kent State
John Filo won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over Jeffrey Miller during this event
cRomwell
John Lambert wrote the Instrument of Government while serving under this man
Roads
John Loudoun McAdams developed a system for creating these structures
Argentina
Jorge Videla, who began the Dirty War, became the leader of this country
Hollywood
Joseph Breen was responsible for applying a "code" to things produced here
Bunker Hill
Joseph Warren was killed during this battle
Brazilian Independence
José Bonifácio de Andrada mentored a leader of this cause who later removed his blue and white armbands at (*) Ipiranga Brook to show his support of it.
Nazi party
Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis killed a member of this group by throwing a tank grenade at his (*) Mercedes Convertible, leading to the success of Operation Anthropoid
Jefferson Davis
Judah P. Benjamin served multiple roles in this man's cabinet, which also included Stephen Mallory as (*) Secretary of Navy.
Tierra Del Fuego
Julio Popper recruited Croatian immigrants to found Porvenir during this archipelago's gold rush, in which its Selknam people were massacred
Singapore
Jurong Island is home to this nation's petrochemical industry
Susan B. Anthony
Justice Ward Hunt ordered her to pay a hundred dollar fine for ( ∗ ) voting in the 1872 Presidential Election.
Hungarian Revolution
János Kádár ["YAH-nohsh KAH-dar"] replaced the leader of this event after his execution; that leader was Imre Nagy ["EEM-ray NAWJ"].
Bill Clinton
Ken Starr investigated this man's alleged role in Vince Foster's suicide and the Whitewater scandal.
Silk
King Louis-Philippe tasked Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult ("zhawn-day-d'yoo soolt") with quashing a series of revolts among producers of this commodity known as canuts ("can-oots")
Zhou
King Wu founded this dynasty, during which Mozi, Han Fei, Laozi, and Confucius lived.
Congress of Vienna
Krakow became a free city as a result of this event
Solidarity
Lane Kirkland was awarded the Order of the White Eagle for holding a hunger strike supporting this organization, which caused the fall of the Kania regime
Gobi Desert
Large amounts of copper and gold are mined in the Oyu Tolgoi mine in this region.
Garden
Legend says that one of these places was created because (*) Amytis of Media was homesick
Rhine
Legend states that shipmen travelling near the town of St. Goar along this river were distracted by a sirens from a nearby cliff
Chamberlain
Leo Amery quoted Oliver Cromwell in attacking this man's foreign policy by saying "in the name of God, go!"
Franco-Prussian War
Leon Gambetta attempted to organize one side's defenses in this war, but fled in a hot air balloon.
Elizabeth I
Leonard Dacre was a prominent member of a movement aiming to dethrone this monarch called the Rising of the North.
Francis I
Leonardo da Vinci spent his last years under the patronage of this ruler, who brought the Mona Lisa to his country
Montana
Lewis and Clark located the "Three Forks of the Missouri" in this state.
Han
Liu Bang, later known as Emperor Gaozu, established this dynasty which dealt with the Trung sisters rebellion.
Peterloo massacre
Lord (*)) Sidmouth introduced the Six Acts, including the Seizure of Arms Act after this event
Raleigh
Lord Cobham conspired with this governor of Jersey in the Main Plot against James I
Gideon v. Wainwright
Losing attorney Bruce Jacob stated that his strategy in this case was to tie it to Betts v. Brady
Dallas
Louie Witt was filmed in this city opening an umbrella on a sunny day, while Clint Hill was filmed desperately running towards an (*) automobile
Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson, Robert Lovett, and Charles Wilson were three of the first five holders of this position
Minoans
Luigi Pernier excavated a mysterious multi-symbol disc produced by this civilization
Franco
Luis Carrero Blanco reformed this man's government
Shay's Rebellion
Luke Day and Job Shattuck were pardoned for their role in this event, which was put down by the combined forces of Benjamin Lincoln and James Bowdoin at (*) Petersham
Virginia
Luray Caverns are located in this state's (*) Shenandoah Valley
Silk
Lyon ("lee-ON") was a historical center for production of this commodity in France
Mexican-Americans
MEChA campaigned for the rights of these people whose immigration to the U.S. had been curtailed by an "Operation" led by Joseph Swing
Cuban americans
Many children of this ethnicity were helped by the US government as part of Operation Peter Pan.
Minoans
Many of this culture's ruins, including a palace falsely claimed to be the "house of the double axe," were excavated by Sir (*) Arthur Evans
Little Bighorn
Major Marcus Reno's troops were saved by the arrival of reinforcements under Captain Benteen at this battle, but the losing side got stuck at Minneconjou Ford
Cuban Missile Crisis
Major Rudolf Anderson became the only combat fatality during this event
Patagonia
Many Welsh immigrants settled this region's Chubut Valley in the 1870s
Chalcogens
Marie curie discovered an element in this group
Piracy
Mary Read and Anne Bonny served John Rackham in this occupation.
King Philip's War
Mary Rowlandson wrote her slave narrative during this war
Montezuma
Massacre ensued after this man asked Pedro de Alvarado to celebrate a religious festival`
storming of the bastille
Mayor Flesselles was executed for refusing to aid this event's participants
Bastille
Mayor Flesselles wasexecuted for refusing to aid this event's participants, some of whom were crushed to death trying to obtainarms from Les Invalides
Dublin
Members of the Auxiliaries and the FIC killed 15 people at a sporting event in Croke Park in this city in retaliation for the killing of members of the Cairo Gang earlier that day
Jury
Members of these groups can be removed through a peremptory challenge
Maori
Members of this ethnic group killed and ate about 70 Europeans in the Boyd massacre
Second Continental Congress
Members of this group like John Dickinson sent the (*)) Olive Branch Petition.
Cosmonaughts
Members of this profession typically traveled through Baikonur, a facility in southern Kazakhstan
Buddhist Monks
Men of this [emphasize] primary profession known as sōhei made a base at Enryaku-ji ("EN-ryah-koo-JEE"), from which they assaulted Kyoto
Steamboat
Men operating these things such as Horace E. Bixby had the difficult job of avoiding (*) tree snags
Fur
Men who worked in this profession in the Rocky Mountains often attended an annual Rendezvous from 1825-1840
Uruguay
Mirim Lagoon is in this country
Prague
Monarchs who lived in this city would traditionally pass through its "Powder Tower," into its Old Town,
Brazil
More electricity will be provided for this country by the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River
Atilla The Hun
Most of the information we have on this ruler comes from Priscus
olmec
Motifs in this culture's artwork include the elongated man
Patagonia
Mount Fitz Roy is the tallest peak in this region, which contains the (*) Perito Moreno Glacier
Honshu
Mount Hokata is the tallest of the Hida Mountains on this island
Tasmania
Mount Ossa is the tallest mountain on this island.
The Philippines
Mount Pinatubo, located on this country's island of Luzon, violently erupted in 1991, killing 847 people
Map
Muhammad Al-Idrisi created one of these things for Roger II of Sicily, which was accompanied by a large silver disk that has since been lost.
Senkaku Islands
Name these islands that, though administered by Japan since 1895, have been claimed by China and Taiwan. In 2012, Japan purchased three of these islands from their private owner, sparking protests in China.
Phoenix Park Murders
Name this 1882 crime where Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke were stabbed to death by a group of Invincibles
Tannenburg
Name this 1914 battle in which German forces began the process of removing a Russian invasion force from East Prussia by encircling and defeating the Second Army under Alexander Samsonov, who shot himself.
Shah Jahan
Name this Mughal Emperor, whose forces were unable to recapture Kandahar during the second Mughal-Safavid War
The Ten Thousand
Name this group of mercenaries, whose improbable return from the heart of Persia was celebrated in the Anabasis.
First Fleet
Name this group of ships, which was under the command Arthur Phillip. They probably brought smallpox to the local population after landing in Botany Bay.
Loving V. Virginia
Name this landmark 1967 case which struck down anti-miscegenation laws nationwide.
Tiberius Gracchus
Name this tribune of the people, a reformer and brother of Gaius, who was beaten to death with table legs on the Capitoline hill after his proposed Lex Agraria land reform bill failed.
Wallonia
Namur is the capital of this region
Yorktown
Naval assistance from the (*) Comte de Grasse was crucial to one side's victory in this battle
Yorktown
Naval support to the winners of this battle was provided by the Comte de Grasse and the Comte de Rochambeau.
Turkey
Nazi engineers designed the Varda Viaduct along one of this country's main rail lines, which traverses the Taurus Mountains on the way to Adana
Robert the Bruce
Near the River Forth, this man defeated a force attempting to relieve a siege of Stirling Castle andwon a decisive victory over Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn
Victoria
Near the city of Jinja, the Owen Falls Dam, which creates the Nalubaale Power Station, regulates the primary outflow of this lake.
Han
Near the end of this dynasty's reign, the Battle of (*) Red Cliffs was lost by Cao Cao
Kiev
Nestor's Primary Chronicle records that this city was conquered by Oleg of (*) Novgorod.
Court-Packing Scheme
New officials called "proctors" were proposed in this initiative
Khmer Rouge
Nic Dunlop described his quest to find a leader of this government's Santebal secret police force.
Green
Norman Borlaug is often credited as the "father" of a (*) Revolution of this color.
Hoover Dam
Norwegian-born sculptor Oscar J.W. Hanson designed a memorial commemorating 112 worker deaths during this project, many from carbon monoxide poisoning in four horrifyingly-hot diversion tunnels
Aral Sea
Nuclear tests were performed on its Vozrozhdeniya Island
Song
Officials of this dynasty include the Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi
Hastings
One combatant at this battle was the juggler Taillefer.
West Germany
One leader of this country was forced to resign after his aide Gunter (*) Guillaume was revealed to be a spy
Human Sacrfice
On Mount Llullaillaco, several (*) mummies were found showing the Incas used children during these events
Nikita Kruschev
On a trip to the (*) United States, this man met Iowa farmer Roswell Garst
Bligh
On that same mission, this future governor of (*) New South Wales during the Rum Rebellion made a harrowing 3,600-mile journey to Timor after losing the confidence of Fletcher Christian
Oil
On the recommendation of Mark Twain, Helen Keller's college education was paid for by a man who got rich from this resource named Henry Rogers.
Eighteenth Amendment
One act passed in support of this amendment was formulated by Wayne Wheeler, though that act was not named for Wheeler but instead for a congressman from Minnesota.
Qing
One campaign in this dynasty led to the genocide of three-quarters of the Dzungar people
The Prince
One chapter in this work concerns the diversities of the armies of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus.
Brown V. Board
One companion case to this case named Bolling v. Sharpe arose due to conditions in the District of Columbia.
oIL
One conflict fought over this resource was known as "the war of soldiers without clothes," due to its participants' economic destitution, and saw the German immigrant Hans Kundt lead one side at two bloody battles at Fort Nanawa
Maryland
One conflict in this state was initiated by an attack on its namesake resident, Thomas Cresap,
Australia
One document compiled by this man's Special Counsel, Charles Colson, was leaked by Daniel Schorr.
sYRIA
One empire based in this province was led by Queen Zenobia after
Baghdad
One empire's rulers lived in this city's Palace of the Golden Gate
Tang
One enemy of this dynasty was a half-Sogdian who declared himself an adoptive son of imperial consort Yang Guifei
Stockholm
One event in this city affected supporters of Sten Sture and was carried out by (*) Christian II
Romania
One event in this country began after Hungarian pastor László Tőkés criticized this country's Systematisation Policy
Merovingian Dynasty
One rule of this dynasty repelled invaders at the Battle of Tolbiac
Illinois
One governor of this state protested against President Grover Cleveland's use of federal troops in the (*) Pullman Strike.
Watergate
One group involved in this event, which included E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, was formed after a previous action by Daniel Ellsberg
PM of Canada
One holder of this position succeeded in passing Goods and Services Tax, though his Charlottetown Accord and Meech Lake Accord were both rejected
Pope
One holder of this title employed the mercenary Sir John Hawkwood in a conflict against Florence known as the War of the Eight Saints.
Henry V
One king of this name agreed to marry Catherine of Valois as part of the Treaty of Troyes
Richard Ii
One king of this name calmed an angry crowd by saying "I am your captain, follow me" shortly after having Wat Tyler killed
Ethiopia
One leader of these people was defeated by Robert Napier near Magdala and was called Theodore II.
Mexico
One leader of this country undermined his own authority when he told James Creelman in an interview that he would retire and let someone new become leader
Australia
One leader of this country was declared dead after he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach; that leader was Harold Holt
Shay's Rebellion
One leader of this movement, Job Shattuck, marched with a group of 200 men on the Middlesex County Courthouse
Detroit
One mayor of this city hosted parties at the Manoogian Mansion and resigned due to corruption charges
Polish-Americans
One member of this ethnic group who died at the Siege of (*) Savannah is called "the father of the American cavalry
Alexander II
One monarch of this name was injured by a train derailment at Borki.
Bulgaria
One mountain range stretches from the Serbian border to the Black Sea, is the Balkan range.
William
One noble with this name took rule after the death of his father Roger II and fought against his chancellor Maio of Bari
India's Partition
One of the boundaries this event created is known as the Radcliffe Line
Steamboat
One of the first of these things was built for Robert R. Livingston and was named for New Orleans
Battle of Trenton
One of the preliminary moves in this battle was the taking of Assunpink Creek
Roman Civil War
One of these conflicts was ended by the Battle of Munda
jAPANESE invasions of korea
One of these events began after thousands of soldiers from a neighboring country helped suppress the Donghak Rebellion
Herero Genocide
One of these events started with the issuing of a document called the Vernichtungsbefehl after Lothar von Trotha won the Battle of Waterberg.
Peasant Revolt
One of these occurrences ended at Smithfield when the sitting Lord Mayor of London, William Walworth, committed murder
Cherokee
One of these people was the last Confederate general to surrender when the Civil War ended. That man, Stand Watie, succeeded as leader of these people a man who refused to sign the Treaty of New Echota and was named John Ross
Federalist Papers
One of these texts states that "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
Federalist Papers
One of these texts states that "If men were angels, no government would be neccessary"
Steamboat
One of these things was nicknamed Fulton's Folly prior to its successful voyage to Albany
Prague
One of this city's residents was condemned and executed at the Council of Constance
Ethiopia
One of this country's emperors committed suicide after the Battle of Magdala during a British expedition led by Robert Napier. T
Venezuela
One of this country's landmarks is named after the American aviator who crash-landed on it in 1937
Poland
One of this modern nation's monarchs from the House of Wettin battled a rebellion which ended after a "Silent" meeting adjudicated by foreign troops.
Sulieman The Magnificent
One of this ruler's admirals decisively defeated forces under Ferrante I Gonzaga at the Battle of Preveza.
Sweden
One queen of this country was nicknamed "Minerva" and caused controversy when she refused to marry and converted to Catholicism, becoming a nun in Rome
Egypt
One revolution erupted in this country after the exile of Saad Zaghlul
Ohio River
One river in this state was described as "ooz[ing] rather than flow[ing]" and having "no visible life" in a Time magazine article written after it caught fire; that river is the Cuyahoga.
Denmark
Part of this country's capital is on the island of Amager, where the Oresund Bridge connects it to Malmo
Pinochet
Patricio Aylwin succeeded this man as president of his country
Rwanda
Paul (*) Rusesabagina saved more than one thousand people in this country
North Carolina
Penelope Barker organized a group of women to protest the Tea Act in the Edenton Tea Party, which took place in this modern-day state
Scandanavia
People from this general region established land divisions called wapentake ["wawp-en-take"] and created free landowners called sokeman
Chinese Exclusion Act
People of this ethnicity benefited from the Magnuson Act of 1943 which largely repealed the 1875 Page Act
president of Mexico
People were chosen for this position by "dedazo", which allowed the current holder to choose his successor
Louis Philippe
People who did not meet the voting requirements were told to "get rich" by his minister, Francois Guizot
Ostracism
Pericles' father Xanthippus underwent this action due to the schemes of a politician who would later undergo it himself after leading the victorious (*) navy at Salamis
Chavez
Philip Vera Cruz resigned from this man's organization after he endorsed Ferdinand Marcos
Corinth
Phillip II created a league named after this city
Red
Phrygian Caps of this color became a symbol of the French Revolution.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Pierre Cruzatte accidentally shot the captain of this group
Oil
Ploiești and Grozny (*) were sites making this good in WWII.
Chesapeake Bay
Pony Penning occurs annually in Assateague Island in this body of water
Yorktown
Poor weather prevented the losing side's retreat to Gloucester Point in this battle.
Charlemagne
Pope Adrian I asked him to conquer the Lombards early in his reign
Persian Gulf
Ports on this body of water include Dhahran and Dammam.
Tennessee
Prior to one early battle in this state, (*) Lew Wallace controversially marched his troops away from the fighting, thereby reaching Pittsburg Landing late
Thirty YeaRS wAR
Prior to this war, one side was engaged in the Uskok War
Iran
Protestors against this country's monarch alleged that its secret police carried out the Cinema Rex fire, killing 420 civilians
Detroit
Race riots at Belle Isle Park and Woodward Avenue occurred in 1943 and 1967 in this city
Seti I
Ramses succeeded his father, who was known by this name
Armenian Genocide
Raphael Lemkin was inspired to coin one term after this event, during which many participants were forcibly marched to Deir ez-Zor
Knights Hospitaller
Raymond II of Tripoli gave this group the castle of Krak de Chevaliers
aNTIETAM
Reinforcements under A. P. Hill arrived from Harpers Ferry near the end of this battle after( ∗ ) Ambrose Burnside captured a namesake bridge.
Joseon
Rellious reformers during this dynasty staged the failed Gapsin Coup in an effort to eliminate social privileges for this dynasty's (*) yangban class.
Soviet-Afghan War
Representative Charlie Wilson implemented the CIA's Operation Cyclone during this war.
Aparthied
Riots against the pass laws led to this Sharpeville Massacre against this policy
Bill Clinton
Riots in Fort Chaffee occured after the Mariel Boatlift in this governor's state
Mecca
Riding the steed Buraq, Mohammad travelled from this place during the (*) Night Journey
World Fairs
Robert Moses led the corporation that ran one of these events in 1964 in Flushing Meadows Park,
Brazil
Roberto Burle Marx helped design a city in this country which contains the Plaza of theThree Powers and the Monumental Axis
Astronaut
Roger B. Chaffee was one of three people in this profession who died in a 1967 (*) electrical fire at Cape Kennedy
Brutus
Rome. A man with this family name lost the Battle of Philippi against the forces of Octavian and Mark Antony
Rwandan Genocide
Romeo Dellaire and Jacques Roger Booh-Booh were criticized for inaction during this event
Rwanda
Roméo Dallaire led a failed peace-keeping mission to stop this event.
Marco Polo
Rustichello da Pisa wrote a book about this man based on (*) stories told by him in a Genoese prison
Electronegativity
Sanderson's calculations of this property uses the reciprocal of atomic volume.
Venezuela
Rómulo Gallegos was president of this country for nine months before being ousted by a coup in 1948, which put Marcos Jiménez in power for ten years
Taiping Rebellion
Rudolf Wagner demonstrated that one leader of this conflict was influenced by Liang Afa's Good Words to Admonish the Age. That same leader during this conflict built up his following in the Thistle Mountains and had an influential meeting with Issachar Jacox Roberts
Idaho
S. A river in this state is nicknamed "The River of No Return," and flows near this state's Lost River Range
Buddhist Monks
Saichō and Hōnen were two of these people who respectively brought the Tendai and (*) Pure Land schools to Japan
Vespucci
Sailing with Alfonso de Ojeda two years later, this explorer found Lake Maracaibo, which reminded him of Venice
Assad
Salah Jadid was held in Mezzah Prison after being overthrown by a member of this family who controlled his country's branch of the Ba'ath Party.
Cotton
Samuel Slater developed the Rhode Island System of factories processingthis crop.
Bunker Hill
Samuel Graves provided artillery support during this battle
Copenhagen
Schmidt Hammer Lassen designed the Black Diamond library in this city which also contains the Frederiksberg and Amalienborg palaces
Abbasids
Scholars consider the beginning of this empire to be when As-Saffah defeated Marwan II at the Battle of the Great (*) Zab River.
Sumeria
Scribes from this civilization first used reed styluses before its Early Dynastic Period
Grant
Secretary of Treasury Benjamin Bristow helped break one scandal during this man's presidency
St. Louis
The brewer Ellis Wainwright lends his name to a skyscraper in this city partially designed by Louis Sullivan.
Madison
Senator William Giles opposed this man's appointment of Albert Gallatin as Secretary of State
Babylon
Sennacherib was murdered by his own sons after he sacked this holy city
Weimar Republic
Several communist militias led the brief (*) Spartacist Uprising in this country
Qin
Shang Yang instituted compulsory military service in this dynasty
Han
Sima Qian wrote the "Records of the Grand Historian" about this dynasty's history
Three Kingdoms Period
Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang appear in a narrative about this period by Luo Guanzhong that begins with the Yellow Turban Rebellion and fictionalizes Liu Bei's victory over Cao Cao at the Battle of Red Cliffs
Roger Sherman
Simeon Baldwin, succeeded him in a post of which he was the inaugural holder; that post was Mayor of (*) New Haven, Connecticut
Crimean
Sir Colin Campbell's Highlanders formed a "Thin Red Line" during this war's Battle of Alma, which was followed by a foggy battle at Inkerman
Maori
Small groups of these people were called iwis, and ate plants similar to potatoes, called kumara
South china sea
Some of the small pieces of land in this body of water are the Scarborough Shoal and Macclesfield Bank
Taiping Rebellion
Some veterans of this conflict later joined a group founded in Honolulu, Hawaii and was named to Revive the country it primarily took place
han
That expedition was organized by this dynasty's Emperor Wu, who sought an alliance against unending (*) Xiongnu raids along the northern Chinese border
Thirty Years War
Spanish forces won a decisive victory in this war at the Battle of Nordlingen under the leadership of the future emperor Ferdinand III
Witch
Storms that hampered James VI's return from Denmark to Scotland inspired him to persecute these people in North Berwick
Madagascar
Species that are endemic to this country and are seen as national symbols include the cat-like fossa
Applachian Mountains
Springer Mountain is the southern end of an important entity in these mountains
Elizabeth i
Spymaster Francis Walsingham uncovered a plot led by Anthony (*) Babington to assassinate this ruler
Railroad
Standard Oil Founder John D. Rockefeller's Partner, Henry Flagler Worked in this industry
Blackbeard
Stede Bonnet's crew and ship defected to this man, who may have deliberately careened two vessels at Beaufort Inlet
Communist
Student protests forced a party of this name to cede power to the Civic Forum, ending Gustav Husák's term as president of his country
Roman Civil War
Sulla fought two of these conflictsagainst Gaius Marius
Shang
Supplanted by the Zhou Dynasty at the Battle of Muye was, for 10 points, what first archaeologically verified dynasty of China, which came to power in the 18th century BC?
James Madison
Supporters of nullification cite a document he wrote, the Virginia Resolution
John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson
Supporters of one of these men responded to the "Coffin Handbills" by accusing the other of providing young girls to the Czar while serving as (*) Ambassador to Russia
Suffrage
Supporters of this movement in London protested in bad weather during the Mud March.
Stone Wall
Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson were two perpetrators of this event
Afghanistan
Texas representative Charlie Wilson supported covertly funding guerillas in this country
Cosmonauts
Textile worker Valentina Tereshkova was the first female member of this profession
Catherine II
That admiral, Alexei Orlov, also won the Battle of Chesma, which gave control of the Aegean Sea to this leader's country.
Boer War
That army also faced hard losses during the Black Week in this conflict
Heian
That battle was fought at Dan-no-Ura, and it led to the ascent of (*) Minamoto no Yoritomo after the Genpei War
Illinois
That governor, John Peter Altgeld, pardoned the anarchists involved in the killing of seven policemen in the Haymarket Square Riot in this state
Nat Turner
That leader's plan was to march to Jerusalem, the seat of Southampton County
Jacobins
The "Black" version of this political faction titled a book about a successful slave rebellion by C.L.R. James.
Indonesia
The "Ethical Policy" sought to improve the welfare of this country's people while it was under colonial rule
Irish Potato Famine
The "Gregory Clause" forced people in this country to relinquish all but a quarter acre to receive aid
Kansas Nebraska Act
The "Peoria Speech" was directed against this piece of legislation
Argentina
The "Triple A" death squad was founded in this country shortly after right-wing snipers perpetrated a 1973 massacre at the Ezeiza Airport against the left-wing Montoneros
Northern Ireland
The "blanket" and "dirty" protests at this region's Maze Prison culminated in a hunger strike led by (*) Bobby Sands
Poland
The "five eternal principles" guided its legislative council, called the (*) Sejm.
Prague
The "ghetto clearance" of this city's Josefov district ended in 1912.
Fur
The "rendezvous system" saw "mountain men" get this good in the Rockies
Warring States Period
The (*)) Hundred Schools of Thought blossomed during this period, which chronologically follows the Spring and Autumn period.
Virginia
The (*)) Overland Campaign in this state
Cuba
The 10th of October Manifesto was created by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes during this country's war for independence
Scotland
The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath asserted its independence
Steel
The 1892 Homestead Strike was at a plant making this good
Copenhagen
The 1947 "Finger Plan" concerned the redevelopment of this city along five corridors
Quebec
The 1949 Asbestos strike occurred in this province in a town called Asbestos
Iran nuclear Program
The 2013 Geneva Interim agreement temporarily halted parts of this program
Hungary
The Adriatic port of Zara futilely asked for this country to protect it during the Fourth Crusade
Sweden
The Age of Liberty was this empire's history until the Great Northern War. I
Duke of Wellington
The Catholic Emancipation Act was passed while he was Prime Minister
Korea
The American merchant ship General Sherman was destroyed by this country after attempting to (*) trade with it, and
Rio Grande
The Amistad Dam joins the Devils River to this major river while another tributary is from the Pecos River
French Resistance
The Appeal of 18th Speech was made by one member of this movement
India
The Babri Mosque was destroyed in this country
Hong Kong Handover
The Basic Law was written seven years prior to this event and enforceable for fifty years after this event as per the One Country, Two Systems policy
Scotland
The Battle of Dunbar resulted in the capture of this country's king John (*) Balliol
Gallipoli Campaign
The Battle of Scimitar Hill ended this campaign's August Offensive
Darius I
The Behistun [buh-HISS-tun] Inscription describes the rise of this ruler and justifies his assassination of Bardiya [bar-DEE-yah].
Russia
The Black Hundred carried out nationalist assassinations for this country's monarch, who signed the Basic Laws of 1906.
Aboriginals
The Black War was a (*) genocide against these people
Abbasids
The Buyid Dynasty sacked this polity's capital and remained in control for over a century, after which the Buyids were replaced by the Seljuk Turks.
Mary Queen of Scots
The Casket Letters and her affair with David Rizzio are sometimes presented as evidence that she was involved in the death of her husband Lord Darnley.
Deleware
The Christina River, named after a queen of Sweden, flows through this state's largest city
Kiev
The Church of the Tithes replaced a pagan temple in this city after amass conversion, according to a history attributed to the monk Nestor, the Primary Chronicle
Colombia
The Congress of Angostura resulted in this nation's unification with several of its neighbors, but that broke up in 1830
Argentina
The Congress of Tucumán declared the independence of this country
Joining the EU
The Copenhagen Criteria determine whether a country can complete this action.
North Sea
The Delta Works were made following a 1951 flood of this body of water to protect land around the mouths of the (*) Maas and Scheldt rivers
1896
The Democratic nominee argued against about putting a "crown of thorns" on the "brow of labor" in a speech supporting free silver, the Cross of Gold speech
Isabela
The Dominican Friar Tomás de Torquemada was for many years the personal advisor to this ruler
Agincourt
The Duke of York and Lord Camoys helped lead the winning side in this battle.
Han
The capital of Luoyang was established by the founding emperor of this dynasty, Emperor Gaozu,
Canada
The Durham Report urged for the union of this modern-day country's two parts
English Civil War
The Eleven Years' War was interrupted due to this conflict.
Ontario
The First Nations leader (*) Tecumseh was killed in this province during the Battle of the Thames (TIMS) in the War of 1812.
Mississippi
The Freedom Summer occured in this state
Sudan
The Funj Sultanate was located in this country
Benjamin Franklin
The Galloway plan built off of a plan developed by this man at a meeting led by James DeLancey.
Stonewall Riots
The Genovese crime family owned the central setting of this event
Finland
The German-trained Jaegers made up the White Guards during this country's civil war.
The Philippines
The Katipunan was a revolutionary organization in this country.
Bourbon
The Grand (*) Alliance countered this dynasty during the Spanish Succession
Greek independence
The Great Powers ratified the London Protocol two years after troops led by Edward Codrington defeated the naval forces of Ibrahim Pasha at the battle of (*) Navarino in the war for this cause.
Baltic Sea
The Gutasaga describes the history of an island in this body of water which contains Visby
Rhode Island
The HMS Gaspee was burned off its coast.
Ethiopia
The Hoare-Laval pact was a secret plan to end this country's independence
The Philippines
The Hukbalahap insurgency advocated for communism in this nation
Constantinople
The Hungarian engineer Orban cast several (*) giant cannons used in a siege of this city
Maine
The International Seaplane Fly-In is hosted every September at this state's Moosehead Lake
Jerusalem
The Irgun, without the approval of the Haganah paramilitary, bombed this city's (*) King David Hotel
Annexing Poland
The January Uprising and the November Uprising prompted this action to be completed a different time.
Nigeria
The Kaduna River flows through a city that is home to this country's only military academy.
Aral Sea
The Karakum Canal played a role in the evaporation of much of this lake
Song
The Liao dynasty ruled to the north of this dynasty
Great Salt Lake
The Lucin Cutoff is a railway which splits this body of water in half through (*) Promontory Point.
COin
The Lydians pioneered the use of electrum in these objects
South China Sea
The Macclesfield Bank is a sunken atoll that can be found in this body of water
Quebecv
The Meech Lake Accord was designed to persuade this province to accept the 1982 Constitution Act
Oil
The Mexican people were asked "to face the consequences of a decision," which they "would neither have sought nor desired," after Lazaro Cardenas's 1917 nationalizing of (*) foreign-owned infrastructure in this resource within his country
Missouri River
The Milk River flows into this river
Whiskey Rebellion
The Mingo Creek Association and newspaper editorials signed "Tom the Tinker" radicalized participants in this event
Challenger Disaster
The Morton Thiokol Chemical Corporation was blamed for this event by the Rogers Commission investigating it, which included among its members Richard Feynman
Euphrates
The Murat River feeds into this river
China
The Nestorian minister Alopen was the first to bring Christianity to this country, around 655 CE
Patagonia
The Neuquen River runs through the province of Rio Negro in this region
West Virginia
The New River Gorge Bridge, the longest steel span in the Western Hemisphere, is a popular destination for BASE jumpers in this state
Nigeria
The Nok tribe in the northern part of this country settled on the Jos plateau and the southern boundary of the Nok people is at the confluence of the Benue and Niger rivers.
Belgium
The Ostend Company was founded in this nation
Peloponnesian War
The Peace of Nicias was signed during this war, but failed to bring a lasting peace.
Affirmative Action
The Philadelphia Plan was one example of this policy
Malaysia
The capital of this nation is at the confluence of the Gombak and Klang Rivers
Kansas
The Wakarusa War occurred here during a time that also saw John Brown lead a massacre at Pottawatomie
Indonesia
The Wallace Line runs through this country
Cleveland
The Wilson-Gorman Tariff, passed during this man's presidency, enacted the first-ever peacetime income tax.
Argentina
The Y Wladfa settlements in this country's Chubut Province are home to many of its Welsh-speakers
Mekong
The Za Qu River is its primary source
Britain
The actual Roman conquest of this region began under Claudius, whose general Aulus Plautius served as its first governor
persian Gulf War
The air campaign in this conflict was led by Chuck Horner, which led to a victory at The Battle of Khafji
oKLAhoma city bombing
The alias Robert Kling was used to rent a truck for this event
1876
The appearance of the group behind the Hamburg Massacre, the "Red Shirts", influenced voters in this election
Indus River Civilization
The archaeologist R.D. Banerji discovered their most famous location
Saddam Hussien
The army of this leader's country invaded its eastern neighbor after a dispute over the Shatt al-Arab waterway in a war in which (*) chemical weapons were used against the Kurds
Colombia
The assassination of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan led this country into a period of unrest known as (*) La Violencia
Seminoles
The best known leader of this tribe, which signed the Treaty of Payne's Landing, was tricked into attending a peace conference by Thomas Jesup.
Louisianna
The case (*) United States v. Cruikshank resulted from this state's Colfax Massacre.
Marathon
The celebration of the Carneia festival was Sparta's excuse for not fighting in this battle
Albania
The churches and (*) mosques of this country were burnt down after it was declared the "first atheist state on Earth."
England and Scotland
The churches of these two countries were unified by the Solemn League and Covenant.
Venice
The coalition opposing Charles VIII was named after this city,
Sicily
The commander of a naval force attempting to conquer this island waited 27 days to retreat after seeing a lunar eclipse
Aral Sea
The construction of the Dike Kokaral across the Berg Strait split this lake
Thirty Years War
The deaths of three brothers from the House of Gonzaga led to the War of the Mantuan Succession during this war
Constantinople
The diary of Nicolo Barbaro is a primary source on events involving this city
Medicine
The difficulty Hmong refugees have in adjusting to the practice of this profession in the United States is the subject of Anne Fadiman's book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.
Chad
The east of this country primarily consists of the Ouaddaï ["wah-DYE"] region and it is the site of the Ennedi Plateau
Red Sea
The eastern shores of this body of water contain its largest port city, where the Kingdom Tower is being built
Marathon
The exiled ruler of one side in this battle, Hippias, advised this battle's losing side
New Jersey
The film "Street Fight" chronicles a campaign for mayor of a city in this state.
Nuremberg
The film Triumph of the Will by Leni Reifenstahl commemorates this city's large-scale rallies, where in 1935 a law forbidding marriage between Germans and Jews was introduced
South carolina
The first Jewish Patriot death occurred in this state at Ninety-Six, which the British abandoned prior to the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
The Prince
The first half of this book is an analysis of new, hereditary, and ecclesiastical (*)) states
tudor
The first king from this house established the Court of the Star Chamber to try nobles.
Ptolemy
The first monarch of this name used his victory at the Battle of Gaza to control parts of Lebanon not already ceded to him following the Battle of (*)) Ipsus in 310 BCE
Pope John Paul II
The first phase of the Bojinka plot consisted of assassinating this figure
Jacobins
The first use of the term "communism" in English was in a conversation by Goodwyn Barnby about a leader of this political group who was executed in a failed coup d'etat against Paul Barras.
Scottish Independence
The first war over this cause developed out of the succession crisis after Alexander III's death
Trafalgar
The flagship of one side in this battle, the Bucentaure, was captured along with its commander, Pierre-Charles (*) Villeneuve [vee-ya-noov].
Mt. Vesuvius
The forces of Gaius Glaber were ambushed by slaves rappelling from vines in this location at the beginning of Spartacus' Revolt.
Qin
The founder of this dynasty narrowly avoided assassination by a blind lute player, and was earlier targeted by Jing Ke while head of one of the Warring States.
Golden Horde
The founding ruler of this polity was almost defeated when an escaped slave warned his enemy Bela IV of an upcoming attack during the Battle of Mohi
1912
The front runner for the nomination of one party in this election, Champ Clark, lost his momentum after he was endorsed by Tammany Hall
Tobacco
The immense manpower required to grow this crop led to the implementation of the headright system.
Mobile Bay
The ironclad CSS Tennessee engaged Rear Admiral David Farragut's entire force in this 1864 Union naval victory
Robert the bruce
The kingship of this successor to John Balliol was the subject of a letter directed to Pope JohnXXII, called the Declaration of (*)) Arbroath
Chinese Americans
The labor leader Denis Kearney ended speeches by saying "whatever happens," people of this ethnicity "must go."
New South wales
The lachlan and macquerie river lie in this state and are named after the country's 5th colonial governor
Siege of Vienna
The largest cavalry charge in history occurred during the relief of this battle and was led by the Winged Hussars of Jan III Sobieski ["yan soh-bee-yes-key"]
National park
The largest of these places is named Wrangell-St. Elias
Venezeula
The largest one of these objects is located near the summit of the Auyan-tepui mountain in Canaima National Park
Zhou
The last ruler of the preceding dynasty, who tortured citizens to please his consort Daji, was defeated by this dynasty's founder at the Battle of (*) Muye ["moo-yeh"]
Great Northern War
The leader of the losing side in this war was killed at the Siege of Fredriksten
Zimbabwe
The leader of this country's G40 political faction attracted controversy when she was accused of using an extension cord to assault a model.
Taft
The legal status of Korea was one of the subjects of an agreement between this president and Katsura Taro.
Puerto Rico
The legislation PROMESA aims to restructure this place's debt
Mali
The legislative body of this empire, the Gbara, which was established under a constitution called the Kouroukan Fouga
Mary Queen Of scots
The likely forged Casket Letters implicated this ruler in the death of her widely disliked husband Lord Darnley.
Gamow
The liquid drop model was proposed by this scientist, who theorized that alpha decay was caused by particles quantum tunneling out of the nucleus
gREAT northern war
The losing side of this war entered a period of democracy known as the "Age of Liberty" after signing the Treaty of Nystad
Atacama Desert
The main river that passes through this area is the Loa River.
Venezuela
The majority of the world's Pemón language speakers live in this country's Canaima National Park, which is the site of many sandstone mesas known as tepuisV
French Resistance
The maquis were the rural faction of this group
Korea
The march 1st movement in this country was promptly crushed
Silver
The mercury required to process this good was found in (*) Huancavelica in modern-day Peru
Puritans
The mortal enemy of this religious group was William (*)) Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury
Peter The Great
The most famous ruler with this name established the Table of Ranks
bLACK pANTHERs
The murder of one of this group's members by the Chicago Police and the FBI led to the Weather Underground's declaration of war on the US government
MEcca
The naming of the "Year of the Elephant" refers to a failed attempt to enter this place.
South Africa
The northeastern part of this country contains the Highveld region, which is bordered by the Greater and Lesser Karoo regions.
wISConsin
The northernmost part of this state is the Apostle Islands, the largest of which is Madeline Island.
Thirty Years War
The occupation of one polity involved in this war was affirmed by the Treaty of Stettin
Synagouge
The oldest one of these places that still stands in the United States is located in Newport, Rhode Island.
Assassination of JFK
The only civilian injured in this event was James Tague
Mali
The only leader to abdicate from its throne was Abubakari II,
San francisco
The original UN charter was signed in this city
Denis Kearney
The passage of the Chinese exclusion Act was heavily supported by this head of the Workingman's Party of California who coined the slogan "The Chinese Must Go
Montgomery
The pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in this city, Martin Luther King Jr., led a citywide campaign after a NAACP secretary was arrested in 1955 for civil disobedience.
Montana
The popular Going-to-the-Sun Road runs through a national park in this state
Nero
The prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus was an early advisor to this man, who sent his general Corbulo to fight the Parthians,
Sulla
The proscriptions were issued by this man after his first march on Rome
Mauryan Empire
The second ruler of this empire was born after poisoned food intended by an advisor to build the founding ruler's immunity was accidentally eaten by his pregnant wife instead
Constantinople
The second-ever ecumenical council was held in this city, and confirmed the Nicene creed.
Greek War of Indepdence
The secret society (*) Filiki Eteria is responsible for inciting this war
Zhou
The shi, or scholar gentry, occupied the highest rank in this dynasty's fengjian feudal system
Louis
The sixth king with this name was called "the Fat" and was advised by Abbot (*) Suger, who worked at Saint Denis.
Pyramids
The smallest of these structures was built for Menkaure
Karakum Desert
The so-called "Door to Hell", a football-stadium-sized cavern that has been burning natural gas for over fifty years, can be found in this desert that spans much of Turkmenistan
Orinoco
The so-called Casiquiare ("ka-see-kee-AH-ray") Canal flows [emphasize] south from this river into the (*) Rio Negro, linking it to a larger system to the south.
Wetlands
The state of Mato Grosso do Sul contains the largest of these ecosystems, the Pantanal, which along with the (*) Amazon is the native habitat of the giant otter.
Catholic Emancipation
The success of this cause came via a Duke of Wellington-supported Relief Act in 1829.
Guyana
The sugar-producing region of Demerara is one of this country's three original counties
Pacific ocean
The sunny city of Arica lies on a "bend" or "elbow" abutted by this body of water
Shang
The taotie motif was prevalent during this dynasty
Federalist Papers
The tenth of these works describes how the union serves as a "safeguard against domestic faction
election of 2000
The top-finishing third party candidate in this election referred to his opponents as "Tweedledee and Tweedledum".
Ivory
The trade of this commodity was largely (*) banned in 1990 following a pro-ban push from CITES countries.
Peloponnesian War
The two halves of this war were separated by a six-year truce, the Peace of Nicias
Chernobyl
The typically elderly residents of this place are termed "samosely," and an object at its center is nicknamed the "sarcophagus
Chernobyl
The typically elderly residents of this place are termed "samosely," and an object at its center is nicknamed the "sarcophagus."
Weimar Republic
The ultranationalist group Organisation Consul assassinated an official of this country
Challenger Disaster
The victims of this event were said to touch the face of god
Battle of Trenton
The victorious side in this battle launched its attack with the phrase "Victory or Death," leading to a surrender in an orchard after the death of Johann Rall
1876
The winning party nominated a man who said of his eventual running mate "I am ashamed to say. Who is Wheeler?"
Constantinople
The wounding of Genonese mercenary captain Giovanni Giustiniani resulted in the scattering of forces defending this city
Kazakhstan
The writing system of this state's official language will change from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet due to Presidential Decree 569.
Rough Riders
Their original commander, Colonel Leonard Wood, was transferred before their best-known engagement, where this unit helped take Kettle Hill in an assault on San Juan Heights.
Election of 2000
Theodore Olsen and David Boies debated the Equal Protection Clause in a case that emerged in this election over issues such as "hanging chads";
Punic Wars
These conflicts saw the Battle of Ilipa
Iroquois Confederacy
These people fought the Huron and other Algonquian ("Al-gon-ki-an") tribes in the Beaver Wars.
Boers
These people founded the Natalia Republic.
Boers
These people launched a short-lived 1815 uprising at Slachter's Nek.
Olmec
These people may have had writing, as demonstrated by the Cascajal Block
Mexican-Americans
These people were discriminated against following the (*) Sleepy Lagoon murder
Students
These people were instructed to put their "bodies upon the gears" in a speech by Mario Savio
Aboriginals
These people were targeted in the Myall Creek Massacre and Battle of Pinjarra
Maori
These people's namesake "King Movement" is meant to emulate the monarchy of European settlers, whom they call pakeha
Maori
These people's namesake "King Movement" is meant to emulate the monarchy of European settlers, whom they call pakeha.
Hungary
These people's raids from the Carpathian Basin were ended at the Battle of Lechfeld by Otto the Great
Indus River Valley
These peoples were succeeded by cultures named for the ochre-colored pottery they produced, as well as one named for a burial site, Cemetery H.
Visigoth
They were defeated at the Battle of Vouille (voo-YAY) by (*) Clovis I while staying in Gaul, after they set up a capital at Toulouse
Pickett
This Confederate general lost the junction of Five Forks, which supplied Petersburg
India
This Country Contains the McMahon Line on its northern border
Pierre Trudeau
This PM instituted the official (*) bilingualism policy and secured the approval of his country's Charter of Rights and Freedom after succeeding Joe Clark.
Franklin
This Pennsylvania native wrote extensively under pseudonyms like Mrs. Silence Dogood
Taft
This President's foreign policy included providing battleships to Argentina and supporting the Zelaya regime in Nicaragua
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
This action built on the (*) forced relinquishing of fortresses that the Peace of Alais had mandated after the Siege of La Rochelle
Chavez
This activist joined Filipino workers in the Delano grape strike
Eighth amendment
This amendment prohibits excessive fines and bail. For 10 points, name this Bill of Rights amendment that prohibits the government from inflicting cruel and usual punishment
Machiavelli
This author praised Hannibal's sternness while dismissing Scipio's forbearance, mocking a genre intending to "mirror" the title character
Agincourt
This battle resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Troyes.
tours
This battle was followed by the Battle of the River Berre near Narbonne.
Great Salt Lake
This body of water is home to Antelope Island, which becomes Antelope Peninsula when the water level dips too low.
LAke Victoria
This body's outflow supplies the Owen Falls Dam, which is located near the city of Jinja.
The Prince
This book encourages risk-taking by saying that "fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her."
Queens
This borough contains the rockaway peninsula
Caspian
This capital city has greatly benefited from the BTC pipeline
baku
This capital city has greatly benefited from the BTC pipeline
Marbury V. Madison
This case was decided a week before the related Stuart v. Laird
Woman's Suffrage
This cause suffered a blow when Minor v. Happersett held that it could not be enacted through the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause
Prague
This city contains Saint Vitus Cathedral
Carthage
This city experienced quasi-dynastic rule by the Magonid family
Manila
This city hosted a 1954 meeting that created the SEATO defensive alliance, which John Foster Dulles helped organize.
Sparta
This city massacred a group of its slaves at Taenarus near Mount Taygetus
Sparta
This city practiced the system of syssitia, where citizens would donate a percentage of their food to be redistributed
Rome
This city was (*) looted by Brennus's Gauls in 390 BC
hAVANA
This city was known as the "Playland of the Americas" when Meyer Lansky and other (*) mobsters controlled its casinos.
Washington DC
This city was once home to its own prime meridian which ran through the Old Naval Observatory.
Nagasaki
This city was the site where scientific information known as "Dutch learning" entered the country it is located in
Sparta
This city's (*) Gerousia, or council of 28 elders, was established by Lycurgus
Genoa
This city's Jewish Ghisolfi family helped found the Bank of St. George, which was granted control over colonies in Gazaria and the Taman Peninsula
Carthage
This city's cothon is an example of an ancient circular harbor
Sparta
This city-state practically ceased to exist following the loss of its ruler Cleomenes III at the Battle of Sellasia to the forces of an Achaean League`
Mayan Calendar
This civilization's spiritual rituals were recorded in the Chilam Balam manuscripts and were based on a 260-day cycle that was extended by the Long Count system
Jutland
This clash included a chaotic night-fighting portion that saw limited radiocapabilities, and began with a skirmish between Franz Hipper and (*)) David Beatty
joan of arc
This commander's greatest victory came after the Battle of Herrings.
Sugar
This commodity was produced by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in a country where it was often produced on farms called colonos
Angkor Wat
This complex is unusually oriented east to west, suggesting that it may have been built for a king's funeral
Six-Day War
This conflict was preceded by a border raid at Samua called Operation Shredder
Mexican Revolution
This conflict was slated to start at 6pm on November 20 according to the plan of San Luis Potosi.
Hungary
This country achieved equal status in the Ausgleich
ISrael
This country carried out the Retribution operations and used aircraft cable to seize a multi-ton radar dish during the War of Attrition
Australia
This country contains the opal mining town of Coober Pedy
France
This country employed the Financier John Law which later led to the Mississippi Bubble.
West Germany
This country experienced a string of murders and hijackings by the Red Army Faction in fall 1977
Somalia
This country lost Soviet support following its 1977 invasion of a western neighbor in the Ogaden War.
Kazakhstan
This country moved its capital in 1997.
Australia
This country saw a battle at Rouse Hill during its Castle Hill Rebellion
Soviet Union
This country was administrated partly by the GOSPLAN
Denmark
This country was forced into a war over that region following the death of its final king from the House of Oldenburg, (*) Frederick VII
Honolulu
This country was occupied by the British for five months during the Paulet (paw-let) affair
Spain
This country's 1542 New Laws were unenforced
Portugal
This country's 1974 Eurovision entry "And After the Farewell," was used as a signal for a coup by the (*) Armed Forces Movement
Colombia
This country's 19th of April Movement or M-19 supported former dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
Denmark
This country's Amalienborg Palace is a winter home for its royal family.
Brazil
This country's Pantanal wetlands are in its state of Mato Grosso
Indonesia
This country's President Joko Widodo has proposed moving this country's capital to the province of East Kalimantan, which is across the Makassar Strait from the island of (*) Sulawesi
Japan
This country's Unit 731 dropped bubonic plague bombs on Chinese cities
Ethiopia
This country's anarchic Era of the Princes was ended by Emperor Theodore II.
Hungary
This country's army shot at its AVH secret police in a clash over control of a radio building in its capital
Indonesia
This country's communist party, the PKI, was blamed for the failed 30th of September coup against its first president
Russia
This country's first prime minister modernized it through the Witte system. T
UK
This country's military suffered a major defeat at Cartagena in a war which began when Spanish 'guarda costas' attacked its ships.
South Africa
This country's northeast is home to the world's largest "green" canyon, Blyde River Canyon,
Morocco
This country's northern neighbor possesses five enclaves within this nation, including the disputed islet of Perejil
Morocco
This country's northern neighbor possesses five enclaves within this nation, including the disputed islet of Perejil.
Marco Polo's travels
This event was sparked by a request for some oil from the lamp of the Holy Sepulcher
1920's
This decade saw the "Roman Question" answered with the creation of the Vatican City in the Lateran Treaty.
Great Chicago fire of 1871
This disaster, which was less deadly than a simultaneous event in Peshtigo, (*) Wisconsin
Shang
This dynasty and its successor made the taotie (tao-t'YEH) motif, which depicts a hideous ogre
Han
This dynasty began following Liu Bang's victory over Xiang Yu and the state of Chu
Sui
This dynasty began the construction of the (*) Grand Canal
Qin
This dynasty built the first Great Wall. Its founder ended the Warring States Period, was buried with a terracotta army, and was named Shi Huangdi [shur-HWAHNG-dee].
Han
This dynasty completed its conquest of Vietnam under the general Ma Yuan after defeating the (*) Trưng Sisters
Sui
This dynasty decisively lost the Battle of Salsu to Goguryeo
Abbasid
This dynasty eventually fell under control of the Buyids and Seljuks after power started to devolve to autonomous localities
Shang
This dynasty lost power after its (*) "immoral" King Zhou (joh) was defeated at the Battle of Muye (moo-YEH)
Shang
This dynasty was centered around its capital of Anyang, where excavations have uncovered (*) oracle bones that were used for divination
Shang
This dynasty was established following the defeat of Jie at the Battle of Mingtiao
Shang
This dynasty was established following the defeat of Jie at the Battle of Mingtiao, and it fell following the Battle of Muye
Tang
This dynasty was founded by (*) Li Yuan, and it was briefly interrupted by the rule of Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor
Han
This dynasty was founded in the aftermath of previous Qin dynasty by the rebel leader Liu Bang
Qin
This dynasty was the first to adopt (*) Legalist ideas and was accused by Sima Qian [SU-mah chyen] of burying Confucian scholars alive and burning their texts
Song Dynasty
This dynasty was the first to create a standing navy, which was destroyed at the Battle of Yamen.
Zhou
This dynasty's firstruler defeated the previous dynasty at the Battle of Muye, a victory that Jiang Ziya helped King Wu achieve
Shang
This dynasty, which was centered on the city of Anyang, lost power after its (*) "immoral" King Zhou (joh) was defeated at the Battle of Muye (moo-YEH)
1964
This election was the first in which the (*) District of Columbia possessed electoral votes
Trajan
This emperor defeated Decebalus at the Battle of Sarmisegetusa in modern-day Romania.
Marcus Aurelius
This emperor fought a lengthy series of wars against the Quadi and Marcomanni tribes, during which he kept a detailed collection of his private thoughts.
Silver
This empire controlled the silver mines of Zacatecas
Ottomans
This empire defeated Louis II at the battle of Mohi
ZUlu
This empire moved north of the Tugela River after losing a devastating battle to forces commanded by Andries Pretorius
Mongol
This empire's general, Kitbuqa, was executed by Mamluks after losing the battle of Ain Jalut.
Kamakura Shogunate
This entity first seized power by winning the Battle of Dan-no-ura as part of the Genpei War against the rival Taira Clan
Hungarian Revolution
This event grew violent after demonstrators at the Radio Building were fired on by members of the AVH secret police.
Teapot Dome
This event led to the Supreme Court ruling in McGrain v. Daugherty, which stated that Congress had the power to compel witness testimony
Rhode island
This event occurred in 1772 when a British vessel that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts ran aground near Newport, Rhode Island.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This event took place following the failure of Operation Zapata
Cuban Missile Crisis
This event took place following the failure of Operation Zapata.
Partition of India
This event used the Radcliffe Line commissioned by Lord (*) Mountbatten
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This event was led by the pastor at the (*) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, who would found the SCLC soon afterwards
Nobunaga
This general quelled the rebellion of the sohei by destroying their fortress atop Mount Hiei
Sulla
This general was elected consul for the first time in 88 B.C. after his success in the Social War
Khmer Rouge
This government was chronicled by Francois Ponchaud in his memoir Year Zero
Khmer Rouge
This government's Santebal was overseen by Comrade Duch, who also ran the infamous (*) Tuol Sleng prison
IRA
This group carried out the Border Campaign, which failed since they failed to gain support from nationalists in the area of their campaign.
FBI
This group employed COINTELPRO against "subversives" like Martin Luther King, Jr.
Swiss Guard
This group protected Louis XVI at Tuileries and were massacred.
Solidarity
This group published a poster using an image from the film High Noon
Jacobite
This group sang the folk tune "Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?"
Vikings
This group won a battle near the River Blackwater called the Battle of Maldon,
Kurds
This group's military forces withdrew from Kirkuk in October 2017
Marcus Aurelius
This husband of Faustina the Younger was tutored by Fronto
Augustus
This man called his second wife a "disease of my flesh" before exiling her to Pandateria
Greenland
This island was home to the settlement of Brattahlid beginning in the 10th century
Gustavus Adolphus
This king obtained the territories of Livonia and Estonia from Poland due to the Treaty of Altmark
Henry IV
This king's opponents tried to replace him with his imprisoned uncle, before this king crushed them at the Battle of Ivry ("ee-VREE").
Georgia
This kingdom's earlier rulers included David the Builder and Queen Tamar
Abbasids
This kingdom, whose ruler al-Mansur became unpopular after the murder of Abu Muslim, was dominated by the Barmakid family in its early days.
Baghdad
This kingdom, whose ruler al-Mansur became unpopular after the murder of Abu Muslim, was dominated by the Barmakid family in its early days.
Kublai khan
This leader employed mangonels built by two Muslim engineers in the successful siege of Xiangyang.
Deng Xiaoping
This leader introduced the Household Responsibility System to help revive township and village enterprises, part of an effort to build so-called "socialism" with his country's "characteristics."
Winston Churchill
This leader notoriously allowed the Soviet Union to take control of the Balkans by signing the "percentages agreement."
Churchill
This leader proposed the "Percentages" agreement, which divided up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence
Deng Xiaoping
This leader set up Special Economic Zones like Shenzhen as part of reforms to encourage export-led development
Gorbachev
This leader told the Committee for the State of Emergency "do what you want, but report my opinion" when they imprisoned him in his vacation home during the August Coup
Milton Obote
This leader's second rise to power ended in a conflict sometimes called the Luwero War
Pinochet
This leader's secret police conducted a car bombing in Washington D.C. to assassinate Orlando Letelier
Kaaba
This location is covered in a silk cloth known as the kiswah
Brutus
This man caused a scandal when he divorced his first wife in favor of his first cousin Porcia
Marco Polo
This man accompanied the "Blue Princess" Kököchin on a journey to Persia.
Columbus
This man and Gaspar Gorricio wrote a book that claimed that the Garden of Eden must be discovered for the Second Coming of Christ to occur.
Marco Polo
This man and his brother delivered a letter to Pope Gregory X that requested oil from the Holy Sepulchre
Tiberius
This man appointed Macro as the head of the Praetorian Guard as a replacement for a man he had executed, Sejanus
Nebudchanezzer II
This man assumed the throne after winning the Battle of Carchemish
Nebuchadnezzar II
This man assumed the throne after winning the Battle of Carchemish, in which he defeated Egypt to conquer Syria and Phoenicia
Franco
This man attempted to formally legalize his leadership by passing the Organic Laws
Truman
This man began his political career with help from Tom Pendergast
Cromwell
This man built a pontoon bridge over the Thames to win the Battle of Worcester
Leif Ericson
This man built the settlement of Brattahlid beginning in the 10th century
Trudeau
This man defended a criminal code which decriminalized consensual homosexual acts by stating "there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."
al capone
This man employed James Belcastro during the "Pineapple Primary," which led to a political victory for his ally "Big Bill" Thompson
jUSTINIAN
This man ended the inconclusive Iberian War by signing the Eternal Peace with Khosrau I.
Balboa
This man established Santa Maria de la Antigua at Darien, the first stable settlement in the Americas
Peter The Great
This man established the Kunstkamera, his country's first museum, to preserve natural and human curiosities
Charles II
This man forbade clergymen from living near a parish they were expelled from in the Five Mile Act
Henry Clay
This man fought a duel with John Randolph, and he unsuccessfully attempted to send delegates to the Congress of Panama
Andrew Johnson
This man had a disastrous speaking tour known as the "Swing Around the Circle" campaign
Kublai Khan
This man installed Wonjong as the ruler of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea.
Gandhi
This man is shown seated reading the news behind a charkha wheel in a photo by Margaret Bourke White while he was imprisoned.
Ataturk
This man is the founder of the Republican People's Party
James Madison
This man kept James Wilkinson as the governor of the Louisiana Territory despite his incompetence.
Ho Chi Mihn
This man launched the August Revolution in his home country against the Japanese-collaborator Bao Dai.
Martin Van Buren
This man led the Bucktails, a group of Senators who opposed George Clinton
Garibaldi
This man led the Hunters of the North to victory while his allies won the Battle of Magenta
Gustavus Adolphus
This man nearly drowned in the Battle of Vittsjö during the Kalmar War.
Webster
This man noted that free government "adheres to America's soil" in his Bunker Hill Address.
Chester Arthur
This man offered Roscoe Conkling a seat on the Supreme Court, who refused to serve after being confirmed by the senate.
Carnegie
This man offered the U.S. Government twenty million dollars in order to back out from the Philippines
Daley
This man ordered police to (*)) "shoot to kill" during the MLK riots
Deng Xiaoping
This man proposed the policy of "One Country, Two Systems."
tROTSKY
This man put down the Kronstadt Rebellion and opposed the idea of "socialism in one country
JP Morgan
This man put up money for the Wardenclyffe communications tower designed by Tesla.
John Jay
This man ran against George Clinton to become the second governor of New York
Piassaro
This man received help from longtime partner Diego Almagro, but he was killed by Almagro's forces in the Battle of (*) Las Salinas
Arthur Wellesley
This man referred to his troops as "scum of the earth" after they broke rank to loot the retreating French army at the Battle of Vitoria
Gladstone
This man reformed his nation's army through the Cardwell Reforms
Hindenburg
This man replaced Erich von Falkenhayn in a high military position
Chamberlain
This man resigned shortly after the Norway Debate.
Nehru
This man responded to the death of his mentor by declaring "the light has gone out of our lives.
Sulla
This man restored Roman power in Greece and Asia Minor in the Treaty of Dardanos in 85 B.C. after defeating the Pontic king Mithridates.
Vespucci
This man sailed alongside Alonso de Ojeda in his second voyage, and mapped several constellations during his fourth voyage under the service of Portugal.
fRANCISCO PIZARRO
This man sent Vicente de Valverde to convert one ruler to Christianity, but that ruler responded by (*) throwing the Bible to the ground
Akhenaten
This man sent statues made of wood instead of pure gold to the Mitanni king Tushratta, leading to conflict between those two men
Lloyd George
This man served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the HH Asquith Administration
Victor Emmanuel II
This man served in battle under his father Charles Albert, who'd abdicated after losing the Battle of Novara to the Austrian-backed Joseph Radetzky.
Thomas Becket
This man succeeded Theobald to his most notable position,
Robert the bruce
This man supported the overthrow of a king nicknamed "empty coat" for the ripping-off of his seal after the Battleof Dunbar
Disraeli
This man thrice served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby's minority governments, the third of which eliminated rotten boroughs and gave workers the right to vote by passing the (*) Second Reform Act that this man championed.
Qin Shi huang
This man thrice visited a northeastern island and sent two sea voyages led by a court sorcerer in search of an elixir of life.
Richard I
This man took over Cyprus after his fianc´e, Berengaria, and his sister were shipwrecked there
Guy Fawkes
This man took the alternate alias John Johnson
Frederick The Great
This man used a diversionary cavalry charge to outflank the four-mile-long front of Charles of Lorraine at the Battle of Leuthen
Justinian I
This man waged a war to restore Hilderic to the throne after he was deposed by his cousin Gelimer.
Chaimberlain
This man was Chancellor of the Exchequer under both Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin.
Porfirio Diaz
This man was advised by a group of technocrats called the cientificos.
David Livingstone
This man was aided by the doctor John Kirk
Chaimberlain
This man was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Stanley Baldwin, a man whom he subsequently replaced as Prime Minister.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
This man was arrested after being misled into a meeting with Jean-Baptiste Brunet, whereupon this man declared, "[...] you have cut down only the trunk of the Tree of Liberty."
Pancho Villa
This man was assassinated after going into town without his bodyguards called the "Dorados," upon which he apocryphally said "Don't let it end like this
Pancho Villa
This man was assassinated after going into town without his bodyguards called the "Dorados," upon which he apocryphally said "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
Winston Churchill
This man was awarded the Nobel Prize for works including a four-volume history series spanning the (*) Gallic Wars to the second Boer ("Burr") War.
Cesaer
This man was consul withBibulus
Custer
This man was defeated at a battle also named (*) Greasy Grass Creek by the Sioux leaders Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull,
William Wallace
This man was forced to flee after losing at Falkirk,a year after Andrew Murray helped him crush Edward Longshanks' armies at Stirling Bridge
Cromwell
This man was given the power to appoint a new chamber of government in the Humble Petition andAdvice
Richard I
This man was killed by an arrow shot during a siege of the castle of Chalus
Wilson
This man was opposed by the Irreconcilables
Benito juarez
This man was president when his country was victorious at the Battle of Puebla
Cyrus The Great
This man was succeeded by a son who died from accidentally stabbing himself in the thigh, Cambyses II.
Marcus Aurelius
This man was taught by Fronto
Madison
This man was the owner of Paul Jennings
Pope John Paul II
This man was the subject of the third Secret of Fatima
Neville Chaimberlain
This man wished for Lord Halifax to replace him after stepping down from one post
P.G.T. Beauregard
This man withdrew from a siege led by Henry Halleck at Corinth.
Cleveland
This man won popular support as mayor of Buffalo after he vetoed a street cleaning bill that would have selected a higher bidder due to political connections.
pol pot
This man worked with Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea, and "Comrade Duch," who operated a facility in a former high school usually known by a numerical abbreviation.
John Brown
This man wrote "the crimes of our guilty land will never be purged away but with blood"
Benjamin Franklin
This man wrote for his brother's paper under the pen name "Mrs. Silence Dogood."
Vladimir Lenin
This man wrote the book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism,
Rapsutin
This man's association with the khlysty (KLEH-stee) religious group forced him to move to Kazan, where he became friends with many clergy figures
Kaiser Wilhelm II
This man's build up of his country's navy included the construction of the Kiel Canal in his country's north
mAGELLAN
This man's crew scholar Maximilianus Transylvanus claimed his slave Enrique plotted a dinner massacre in the court of Rajah Humadon
Kaiser Wilhelm II
This man's declaration of support to the Sultan led to a dispute that was ultimately settled by the Algeciras Conference after he visited Tangier
Napoleon
This man's forces won the Six Days' Campaign against two armies.
Louis Philippe i
This man's foreign minister François Guizot repaired relations with Britain after the Egyptian invasion of Ottoman Empire.
nehru
This man's government agreed to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence with a country that later defeated his nation in a 1962 war
Trudeau
This man's government passed the Official Languages Act and pushed for a Charter of (*) Rights and Freedoms during the patriation of his country's constitution away from British authority.
Peron
This man's ideas inspired guerrillas called Montoneros
Benito Juarez
This man's namesake law subordinated religious courts to civil ones and prompted Conservative backlash that led to the (*) War of the Reform.
pol pot
This man's orders were carried out at places like Choeung Ek.
Chavez
This man's overtures to Filipinos backfired when he met with Ferdinand Marcos, thirteen years after he helped end the (*) Bracero program
Diaz
This man's political enemies were eliminated by his personal police force, the Bravi, and he issued the Plan of Tuxtepec
Ford
This man's popularity greatly decreased after pictures showed this man's hired hands beating Walter Reuther ["ROO-thur"] in the "Battle of the Overpass
Bacon's Rebellion
This man, who was succeeded by John Ingram, criticized the government for nepotism and monopolizing the beaver trade in a "Declaration of the People."
Bonus Army
This march of thousands of disgruntled veterans demanding the payment of their pension assembled on Anacostia Flats in Washington, D.C., only for Hoover to order them to be driven out with military force
Philippines
This modern-day country gained its independence with the Tydings-McDuffie Act
Henry VIII
This monarch fought the Rough Wooing against his northern neighbor and faced a rebellion called the Pilgrimage of Grace.
Peter the Great
This monarch gained access to the Black Sea with the successful Azov campaign against the Ottoman Empire
Charles Ii
This monarch granted William (*) Penn a land charter in America.
Charles V
This monarch secured a peace treaty with the French in the "ladies' peace" signed at Cambrai
Elizabeth I
This monarch suppressed the Steelyard, a Hanseatic trading outpost in their country.
Queen Victoria
This monarch was brought up under John Conroy's oppressive Kensington System.
Elizabeth I
This monarch was the subject of Regnans in Excelsis, which was issued by the Pope.
Andes
This mountain range contains the province of Cuyo
Denali
This mountain's Fake Peak, found on Ruth Glacier, was the subject of Frederick Cook's false claim that he summitted this mountain in 1906
Philip II of Spain
This name belonged to a man who tried to annul his marriage to Ingeborg, a sister of Canute IV, and gained the territories in the Treaty of Le Goulet
Belgium
This nation included the southern 10 of 17 provinces in the Austrian Netherlands
Finland
This nation joined a military alliance with Germany under the leadership of Risto Ryti.
Indonesia
This nation struggled for sovereignty with groups like Sarekat Islam, and it gained independence under "Guided Democracy" with the leadership of Mohammed Hatta and Sukarno
Philippines
This nation's Bohol province is home to over a thousand hills that turn brown during the dry season, an attraction known as the Chocolate Hills.
Egypt
This nation's Siwa Oasis
Ecuador
This nation's largest city contains the Malecón 2000, a boardwalk on the Guayas River.
KGB
This non-American agency employed Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen
Sultan of the ottoman Empire
This office sat atop a government metonymically called the Sublime Porte
Doolittle Raid
This operation began aboard the Hornet
Solidarity
This organization sprang from predecessors such as KOR and was influenced by the essay Theses on Hope and Hopelessness
Knights Templar
This organization triumphed at the Battle of Montgisard,
FEDERAL RESERVE
This organization was designed during a secret meeting on Jekyll Island held between Nelson Aldrichand leading businessmen
RAF
This organization was thanked with Never in the field of human conflict was (*)) so much owed by so many to so few
Vicksburg
This overall campaign included engagements at Big Black River Bridge and (*) Champion Hill
liberal party
This party's leader was accused of "killing" General "Chinese" Gordon and was called the British Father of (*) Irish Home Rule
Time of Troubles
This period included a massive defeat to the Winged Hussars at the Battle of (*) Klushino
Heian
This period was dominated by the Fujiwara clan, and it began after Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Kyoto
kamakura
This period was followed by the Kenmu Restoration
Tubman
This person guided James Montgomery's forces in the raid on Combahee Ferry
Coolidge
This person used the Massachusetts national guard to restore Edwin Curtis to office during the Boston Police Strike
David Livingstone
This person's small expeditions and light travel enabled him to live peacefully at Ujiji
Great Society
This plan created the Office of Economic Opportunity, which administered its Head Start program
Pierre Trudeau
This politician attempted to add equal voting rights to his country's constitution by drafting the Victoria Charter,
Sumner
This politician chaired the Select Committee on Slavery and Freedom that created the Freedmen's Bureau.
Boris yeltsin
This politician issued vouchers to citizens as part of a "shock therapy" program designed by his prime minister Yegor Gaidar
Joe Biden
This politician may have plagiarized portions of his speeches from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock
Otto Von Bismarck
This politician negotiated the Reinsurance Treaty to bolster the Three Emperors League
Gerald Ford
This politician once told New York City to "drop dead
Bismarck
This politician was nearly assassinated by the student Ferdinand Cohen-Blind
Harrison
This politician's campaign manager, William Dudley, bribed groups of voters dubbed the "blocks of five."
Secretary General of the UN
This position was first held by Trygve Lie, and one holder of this office died when his plane crashed in Zambia;
The Draft
This practice was opposed by the "Baltimore Four" and the "Catonsville Nine", who poured blood over and burned certain objects.
Pierce
This president denounced William Seward after for claiming that he was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle
Jimmy Carter
This president described a "crisis of confidence" during his (*) "Malaise" speech, which he gave in response to criticism of his actions during the energy crisis.
MckInley
This president's Secretary of War Russell Alger was heavily criticized for purchasing "embalmed beef" from Chicago meatpacking companies
Louis XIV
This ruler banished Jews from his country's colonies and established rules for slavery in the Black Code.
Akhenaten
This ruler built the city of Amarna with the intention of moving the (*) capital city from Thebes
Peter the Great
This ruler came to power with the backing of the Naryshkin family.
Hadrian
This ruler deified his lover Antinous, who drowned in the Nile
Elizabeth I
This ruler established diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire with the chartering of the Levant Company
OCtavian
This ruler exiled his daughter, Julia, to Pandateria to demonstrate harsh punishments for citizens who did not follow his strict marriage laws
Richard i
This ruler forgave his killer by saying "live on, and by my bounty behold the light of day," after dying whilst besieging the castle Châlus-Chabrol
Cyrus The Great
This ruler inscribed the world's first charter of human rights onto a clay cylinder.
Akbar
This ruler instituted the zabt as part of his empire's revenue system with the help of his minister Todar Mal
Mansa Musa
This ruler reluctantly kissed the ground in front of the Mamluk sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad.
Mansa Musa
This ruler rose to power after Abu-Bakr II sailed out to the Atlantic Ocean and never returned
Elizabeth i
This ruler seriously considered a military alliance with Sultan Murad III and chartered the little-known Levant Company to trade with the Ottomans.
Alfred The Great
This ruler was chronicled by Asser
Mary Queen of Scots
This ruler was defeated at the Battle of Langside and forced to flee the country
Emperor Mejji
This ruler was opposed by the Ezo Republic, which was defeated at the battle of Hakodate, ending the (*) Boshin War
Tut
This ruler was succeeded by his advisor Ay ["eye"].
king tut
This ruler was succeeded by his advisor Ay ["eye"].
Justinian
This ruler's armies conquered the Zan people of Georgia but suffered losses to a group led by Totila
Richard i
This ruler's coronation led to the death of Jacob of Orléans as part of a massacre of Jews
Atilla
This ruler's empire collapsed after his son Ellac was defeated at the Battle of Nedao.
Vlad The Impaler
This ruler's father was overthrown by John Hunyadi, who later employed him as an advisor.q
Mejji
This ruler's forces won the battle of YaLU river
Cleopatra VII
This ruler's sister Arsinoe IV was scandalously murdered on the steps of the Temple of Ephesus
Charles martel
This ruler's victory at one battle was exaggerated in the chronicles of Fredegar
Darius I
This ruler's war against the Scythians is described on the fifth column of the trilingual Behistun Inscription
Great Lakes
This system's North Channel and Georgian Bay bound its (*) Manitoulin Island to the north and southeast respectively
Seminoles
This tribe killed over a hundred troops in the Dade Massacre
Visigoth
This tribe was led by Alaric I in a 410 sacking of Rome
Chester Arthur
This vice president's relationship with the president was strained after the president appointed James G Blaine as secretary of state
Spanish Succession
This war began when Philippe, Duc d'Anjou was announced as the candidate for kingship by Louis XIV ("the fourteenth").
Grand Chaco War
This war contained the battle of Fort Nanawa
War of Austrian Succession
This war included battles to take Fort St. David although the invading French forces were then forced to defend Pondicherry
Russo-Japanese War
This war included the low-casualty battle of Motien Pass
Soviet-Afghan War
This war was prompted by the overthrow of Mohammad Daoud Khan in the Saur Revolution.
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
This was the office most famously represented by a monogram called the tughra
The Prince
This work cites an apocryphal story about Agathocles massacring the Syracusan senators as an example of "wicked means."
The Prince
This work recommends eliminating the bloodline of a royal family to conquer a kingdom that revolves around a king, an example of which is the Persian Empire of Darius III.
The Prince
This work warns against the dangers of flatterers
The Prince
This work was Written for Lorenzo de'Medici
Machiavelli
This writer's best known work states that "There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehended; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others."
Archbishop of Cantebury
Thomas Cranmer held this position while editing the first two versions of the Book of Common Prayer.
Nat Turner
Thomas Gray took the Confessions of a leader of this event
Zimbabwe
Those warriors of the Shona people, which currently reside in Mozambique and this country
Simon Bolivar
Though he swore never to remarry after his wife's early death, this statesman carried on notable affairs with Pepita Machado and Manuela Sáenz
Mali
Though oral tradition maintained by griots ["GREE-ohs"] holds that this empire's founder remained pagan, Ibn (*) Battuta claimed that he converted to Islam. T
maria theresa
Though they did not end forced labor, this ruler limited working hours for peasants through the Robot Patents
Excommunication
Though this process can occur immediately or latae sententiae, Canon 1425 states that it usually is administered ferendae sententiae by a panel of three judges
Indonesia
Thousands of communists in this country were killed after a failed coup carried out the (*) 30th of September Movement
Algeria
Thousands of foreign nationals fled this country following threats from GIA terrorists and a 1992 coup against the FIS party
Navajo
Thousands of peach trees belonging to this tribe were destroyed in the Canyon de Chelly ("shay") by Kit Carson's troops
Saddam Hussien
Three months after Operation Scorch Sword against this man, Osirak was destroyed in Operation Opera.
Soviet Union
Three years earlier, this country's leader had written the article "Dizzy From Success."
Trenton
Troops stationed at McConkey's Ferry were the only division of the winning side to show up to this battle, unlike those under the command of John Cadwalader and James Ewing.
Armenia
Tigranes was an ancient king of these people
Tubman
To avoid being recognized on a train, this illiterate woman and subject of the biography She Came to Slay pretended to read a newspaper
Marathon
To commemorate this battle, 500 goats were sacrificed every year for several decades
Waterloo
To recover in time for this battle, one general used rhubarb, garlic, and liquor to rub his wounds when his horse fell on him at Ligny [lih-NYEE].
Shang
Tortoise shells and oxen scapulae were used by this dynasty to create oracle bones
Human Sacrifice
Training troops and collecting resources for these events were goals of the "flower wars.
Kenya
Troops from this country massacred thousands of secessionist at the Wagalla Airstrip. That massacre was part of the larger Shifta War which was fought to maintain control of this country's Northern Frontier District
Akhenaten
Tushratta married his daughter to this leader hoping to ally against Suppiluliuma I.
Sweden
Two factions during this country's age of liberty that differed on their stance towards Russia were the (*) caps and the hats
Mississippi
Two years later, thousands entered this state's capital at the end of the "March Against Fear, " which was initiated by James Meredith
6 day war
UN resolution 242 attempted to resolve territorial disputes caused by this conflict
Tenochtitlan
Unarmed nobles of this city were massacred at a festival on the orders of Pedro de Alvarado
Secretary of State
Under Bill Clinton, the first woman to hold this position was Madeleine Albright
Visigoths
Under Liuvigild's son Reccared, these people rejected the teachings of the bishop Ulfilas whenthey switched from Arianism to Catholicism
Savonarola
Under his influence, (*) Sandro Botticelli gave up painting
Maria Theresa
Under this monarch, the Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz negotiated a shift in alliances as part of the (*) Diplomatic Revolution
Mississippi
While carrying (*) T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," a civil rights activist in this state was murdered in his driveway by Byron de la Beckwith
Peru
Until about 250 BC, the Chavin culture thrived in what is now this country
Stamp Act
When it was repealed, Parliament simultaneously passed the (*) Declaratory Act to maintain taxation rights over the colonies, even though the colonies were "without representation."
Atahualpa
Vicente de Valverde, who explained to him the "Requerimiento", convinced him to convert to Christianity, which led to his death by strangulation in lieu of burning at the stake
Blackbeard
Virginia lieutenant governor Alexander Spotswood dispatched Robert Maynard to pursue him, leading to this man's death at a clash in Ocracoke Inlet
Ecuador
Volcanoes in this nation include Pichincha, Illiniza, Cotopaxi, and Chimborazo.
Maori
Wairau bar is the earliest archaeological site of these people,
Han
Wang Mang attempted to form his own dynasty during this period, only to be killed by members of the Red Eyebrows Movement
Han
Wang Mang interrupted this dynasty with the Xin dynasty
Vasco Da Gama
While plundering all ships carrying pilgrims, this person ordered the ship Miri to be sunk with all aboard.
Hastings
While pursuing the retreating army in this battle, many of the victor's cavalry were killed at the Malfosse
Chavez
While undertaking his twenty-four day fast in Phoenix, Arizona, this man came up with the slogan (*)) "Yes, one can."
Ghana
While visiting China in 1966, the first leader of this country was overthrown by Joseph Ankrah
Shipwreck
William Adelin, the presumed heir to the English throne, died during one of these events, causing the (*) Anarchy.
Sinking of the Titanic
William Alden Smith led a Senate investigation into this event
Eighth Amendment
William Brennan identified four principles in evaluating a clause from this Amendment during the case Furman v. Georgia, including one that asks if an action is (*) "degrading to human dignity."
Crimean War
William Howard Russell served as the first war correspondent in newspaper history while covering this conflict
Chartism
William Lovett and Feargus O'Connor were both leaders involved in this cause.
Slavery
William Wilberforce famously campaigned against this practice
Amritsar
Winston Churchill criticized the "un-British" response to protestors at Jallianwala Bagh in this city by its (*) "butcher," Reginald Dyer
Hindenburg
With Erich von Ludendorff, this man helped lead the Eighth Army to defeat the Russians at Masurian Lakes and (*) Tannenberg
Columbus
With Gaspar Gorricio, this man wrote an apocalyptic Book of Prophecies
Deng Xiaoping
With Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang, this man outmaneuvered (*) Hua Guofeng for power
Cecil Rhodes
With his buddy Charles Rudd, he tricked King Lobengula into signing an unfavorable treaty
Peasant Revolt
With the help of the radical preacher John Ball and the mysterious Jack Straw, one of these broke out in 1381 over a new poll tax and was headed by (*) Wat Tyler.
Ford
Within a span of three weeks, Sara Jane Moore and "Squeaky" Fromme each tried to shoot this man
Qin
Xiang Yu and Liu Bang vied for power after this dynasty's fall,
Tang
Yang Guifei was a concubine reluctantly executed by Emperor Xuanzong in this dynasty.
Lawrence V. Texas
[10] This 2003 Supreme Court case overturned Bowers v. Hardwick, ruling that the 14th Amendment made unconstitutional a Texas sodomy law.
Battle of Blair Mountain
] Coal miners in Logan County, West Virginia initiated this largest labor uprising in U.S. history in 1921.
Babylon
`Legend says that one of these places was created because (*) Amytis of Media was homesick
Mugabe
`Morgan Tsvangirai, the head of the Movement for Democratic Change who ran against this man in 2000, called on him to resign after army raids on November 15, 2017 placed him under (*) house arrest.
Yorktown
`The victors of this battle took Redoubts 9 and 10, an effort in part led by Alexander Hamilton.
Steel
a wavy pattern characterized the type of this material produced in (*) Damascus.
Garibaldi
a. At the end of his career, he led the Army of the Vosges in the Franco-Prussian War
Florida
a. This state contains the delta of the Apalachicola River, which lies west of the tourist center of Panama City.
Hadrian
early in this man's reign he executed four consuls including Lucius Quietus
John brown
after the sacking of Lawrence, this man led an attack where his men hacked five settlers to death near Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas
Alexander I
another monarch of this name signed the Treaty of Tilsit on a raft, making a truce with Napoleon
jefferson Davis
contributed to American victory at the Battle of Buena Vista as the leader of the Mississippi Rifles
UK and USA
d, another conflict between these two nations occurred after a fight between the Leopard and the Chesapeake
Charles I
d. Edward Coke drafted a document that opposed this ruler's policies and affirmed the right of habeas corpus.
Benjamin Franklin
d. This man recounted how he held "three great puffy rolls" while meeting his future wife, Deborah Reade
Georgia
during the War of Jenkins' Ear it was the site of the Battle of Bloody Marsh
Peron
during the presidency of that leader of this surname, Jose Lopez Rega utilized the Triple A to combat left-wing insurgents such as the (*) Montoneros
Lake Erie
e Maumee and Sandusky rivers empty into this lake which is home to Presque Isle, the site of a crucial (*) Oliver Hazard Perry victory during the War of 1812
Idaho
e. The Clearwater River flows through this state's city of Lewiston, and three lava fields can be found in its (*) Craters of the Moon National Park
Riviera
for 10 points, what region of Southern France on the coast of the Mediterranean?q
Maryland
forces under George Armistead withstood a 25 hour bombardment at its Fort McHenry in this state
Custer
g. This man testified against Orville Grant and Secretary of War William Belknap during the trader post scandal, which led to Alfred Terry taking over his command.
1896
geriatric third-party ticket in this election of Simon Bolivar Buckner and John Palmer caused the Democrats to lose Kentucky
P.G.T. Beauregard
he also lost one battle after taking control when his superior,( ∗ ) Albert Sidney Johnston, died
Nelson Mandela
he co-founded the militant group Umkhonto we Sizwe, meaning (*) "Spear of the Nation."
Ceausescu
he employed a secret police known as the Securitate.
New Deal
he later opposed this program in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S
Hinderburg
he lent his name to a (*)) defensive line that spanned from Verdun to Lens
Jefferson Davis
he once threw money from his pockets to pacify women who were rioting for bread.
Jackson
he was able to defeat John Fremont at Cross Keys during the Valley Campaign
Cleveland
he won election against an opponent whose supporters described this man's party as backing "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion";
Wilson
his Treasury secretary, William McAdoo, created twelve (*) decentralized, regional banks
Tibet
his region is home to Lake Manasarovar, the source of the Karnali River
MAli
is empire's first dynasty claimed descent from Bilal ibn Rabah, the first muezzin.
Marco Polo
is story was recorded in a book titled The Million, which Rustichello da Pisa wrote after meeting him in a Genoese prison
Honshu
island's Minami Alps and Akaishi Mountain Range are found within the Chudu region
Kamakura
it began after the Minamoto clan defeated the Taira clan in the Genpei War
Carthage
it massacred a group of mutinying soldiers trapped in "the Saw" during the Mercenary War
Shay's Rebellion
it was dispersed by the combined forces of James (*) Bowdoin and Benjamin Lincoln.
FBI
itemployed COINTELPRO against "subversives" like Martin Luther King, Jr
Inca
its southern expansion was halted at the Battle of the Maule.
Neutron
non-zero electric dipole moment for it would violate PT-symmetry.
Korea
ministers." The Gapsin Coup and Imo Mutiny both took place in this country
Hundred Years War
n this war, Ry and Crotoy were sites where the Earl of Shrewsbury won, but he was later captured at the Battle of Patay
Vikings
n. Another member of this group founded the colony of L'anse aux Meadows
Cyrus The Great
n: As an infant, this man was saved by Harpagus, who later helped this man seize power from his grandfather Astyages.
Eli Whitney
n: This man allegedly came up with the idea for his most influential invention at the suggestion of Nathanael Greene's widow, Catherine.
Canada
the Conscription Crisis of 1917 brought on by Robert Borden's promised to enlist one-sixteenth of this country's population
Han
this dynasty's Emperor Jing dealt with the Rebellion of the Seven States
War of the Spanish Succession
qTwo years after the conclusion of this war, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni helped engineer the War of the Quadruple Alliance to retake Sicily.
Gorbachev
this leader spent three days "resting" under house arrest in Foros during the August Coup
Jimmy Carter
this man accomplished the SALT II talks with Leonid Brezhnev.
Sun Yat Sen
this man created the "revival movement" for his country while in Honolulu
Spartacus
this man led his army through the Third Servile War, which he lost after being betrayed by Cilician pirates.
Pickett
this man participated in an action that occurred after two hours of artillery barrage on Cemetery Ridge
Leif Ericson
this man sailed past Helluland and Markland before reaching a region rich with (*)) grapes
Nebuchadnezzar II
this man took over Syria and Phoenicia after a victory at the Battle of Carchemish
tito
this man was accused of poisoning the bishop Aloysius Stepinac
Charles V
this man won the Battle of Muhlberg against the Schmalkaldic League
Pierce
this man's secretary of State, William L. Marcy, wanted to buy Cuba, leading to the( ∗ ) Ostend Manifesto. T
Japan
this navy's leader was killed in Operation Vengeance
Hatshepsut
this pharaoh's mortuary temple is known as Djeser-Djeseru.
Atilla The Hun
this ruler along with his older brother signed the Treaty of Margus
Qin Shi Huangdi
this ruler connected his country's two main waterways with the Lingqu canal.
Charles I
this ruler's advisers supported strict policies that were known as "Thorough.
Rough Riders
this unit lost eight men at that battle of Las Guisimas
Mississippi
thousands entered this state's capital at the end of the "March Against Fear, "
Pyramids
three of these structures belonging to Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu were built near Giza
Korean War
qA commander on one side of this war proposed dropping 30 to 50 (*) nuclear bombs on an opponent in order to create a radioactive wasteland and was criticized for rudeness to his country's leader at Wake Island
Sepoy mutiny
qHugh Rose laid siege to the city of Jhansi during this conflict after its ruler refused to abide by the (*) Doctrine of Lapse
Secretary General of the UN
one holder of this office died when his plane crashed in Zambia; that man was Dag Hammarskjöld
Brutus
one man with this name partnered with the husband of Lucretia to overthrow Tarquin the Proud, the last king of (*) Rome.
Thirty Years War
one of the leaders who signed the Treaty of Lubeck, which ended one country's involvement in this conflict
1876
one scandal during this election included a bribe from the Union Pacific Railroad exposed by the Mulligan letters
The Draft
opposition to this program led to the burning of the Colored Orphan Asylum.
WORLD WAR I
people volunteered as "Four Minute Men"to make short propaganda speeches for this war
Song
qSima Guang opposed Wang (*)) Anshi's reforms of this dynasty.
Hadrian
qThis notable philhellene created the Panhellenion League of city-states
Philippines
q. The Katipunan was a revolutionary organization in this country
Brazil
r. Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, Muslims in this country rose up in the Malê ["MAH-lay"] Revolt
Roanoke
r. One of its earliest leaders was John White, the grandfather of the first European child born in the New World,( ∗ ) Virginia Dare.
Shah Jahan
r. One of this emperor's sons boldly attempted to fuse Hindu and Sufic traditions and was Dara Shikoh
Coral Sea
r. This battle thwarted Operation Mo, which was later reattempted later the same year by an advance through the Kokoda Track
Brazil
r. This country's fascist Integralist movement was crushed by a leader whose apparent involvement in the Rua Tonelero scandal prompted his (*)) suicide.
Alhambra
s. The Hall of the Ambassadors is the largest room in this structure from which Washington Irving wrote a namesake book of tales.
hAWAII
senator George Hoar unsuccessfully advocated for the rights of people living here who lost power in the Newlands Resolution.
Kristallnacht
t. One group was fined four hundred million dollars in damages after this event, and insurance payments to its victims were confiscated.
Queen of England
t. One holder of this position was executed for the alleged plotting of Wyatt's Rebellion and had only held this position for (*) nine days
East-West Schism
t. The turning point of this event was precipitated by Humbert of Silva Candida.
Kristallnacht
t. This event's pretext was Herschel Grynszpan's assassination of (*) Ernst vom Rath
Tang
tHIS dynasty ended a system in which land was doled out based on family size, the equal field system
First Battle of Bull Run
thaddeus lowe aided one side in this battle with his reconnaissance blimp the enterprise
Russian CIvil War
the "Mad Baron" Roman von Ungern-Sternberg attempted to establish his own independent state to the south.
eLECTIon of 2000
the 5 to 4 decision in that case allowed( ∗ ) Katherine Harris to certify the winner of twenty-five electoral votes from Florida
Berlin Wall
the Alexanderplatz Demonstration opposed Erich Honecker's stance that it would stand for a "hundred more years."
Columbia
the Channeled Scablands are a series of coulees along this river
Philippines
the Macabebe Scouts here were led by General Frederick Funston
Tobacco
the Two Penny Act limited the amount an Anglican minister could make off of this commodity.
Zimbabwe
the bishop Abel Muzorewa briefly served as the leader of this country
Yorktown
the losing commander built fortifications at Gloucester Point.
Qin
the lute player Gao Jianli nearly assassinated one of this dynasty's emperors
Brutus
the most famous man with this family name partnered with Cassius to preserve the Republic by carrying out an event on the Ides of March.
San Francisco
the most notable Victorian houses termed "Painted Ladies" are in this city.
Galapagos
the only marine iguana are both native to this geographic location
Bulgaria
the south central region is covered by the Rhodope mountains.
Visigoth
these peoples converted from Arianism to Catholicism under the reign of Reccared I.
France
this country had a prime minister named Robert Schuman who proposed the European Coal and Steel Community
Han
this dynasty regained (*) Vietnam from the Trưng Sisters
Abbasid
this dynasty suppressed the Zanj slave revolt.
Charles V
two years earlier, arquebus-equipped troops under Fernando Francisco de Avalos won a critical victory for this monarch south of Milan over King (*) Francis I.
Zhou
y. This dynasty's King Wu defeated the previous dynasty at the Battle of Muye.