History Fact Finder

Ancient Empires

1. Why was the Thutmose family important to Egyptian history? [answer]
2. Was the Mayan Empire the most advanced early civilization in the Americas? [answer]
3. When was King Tut's tomb discovered? [answer]
4. How did the Aztec and Inca Empires compare with the Mayan Empire? [answer]
5. Who were the most important rulers of the Roman Empire? [answer]
6. Why was Julius Caesar murdered? [answer]
7. Did Nero really play his fiddle while Rome burned? [answer]
8. Why was Constantine I called "the Great"? [answer]
9. What was the Byzantine Empire? [answer]
10. What was the T'ang dynasty? [answer]
11. What were the contributions of the Ming dynasty? [answer]
12. Who were the great African kings? [answer]
13. Who was Hannibal? [answer]

European Empires

1. What was the Carolingian Empire? [answer]
2. Why is Charlemagne considered one of the great leaders in history? [answer]
3. What was the Ottoman Empire? [answer]
4. Who were the Habsburgs? [answer]
5. Why were King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I of Spain so powerful? [answer]
6. Did Lucrezia Borgia earn her notorious reputation? [answer]
7. Who were the Romanovs? [answer]
8. Who was Peter the Great? [answer]
9. Who was Catherine the Great? [answer]
10. What are England's royal houses? [answer]
11. What was the Domesday Book? [answer]
12. How did the House of Tudor originate? [answer]
13. Why is Henry VIII so famous? [answer]
14. Why did Queen Elizabeth I have an entire age named after her? [answer]
15. Who was Mary Queen of Scots? [answer]
16. Was King George III really insane? [answer]
17. How did the House of Windsor originate? [answer]
18. Which British monarch has ruled the longest? [answer]
19. What is the Magna Carta? [answer]

European Governments

1. Why was Oliver Cromwell important to British history? [answer]
2. When was the British Parliament founded? [answer]
3. What was the Bill of Rights of 1689? [answer]
4. Did Marie Antoinette really say "Let them eat cake"? [answer]
5. What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? [answer]
6. Why do historians draw comparisons among Stalin, Hitler, Napoleon, and Alexander the Great? [answer]
7. Was the Holocaust really directed by the Nazi government? [answer]
8. Who were the most prominent leaders of the Soviet Union? [answer]
9. How was the Soviet Union formed? [answer]
10. What was detente? [answer]

United States Government

1. Why is the Declaration of Independence important? [answer]
2. Why were there two Continental Congresses? [answer]
3. Did George Washington really have wooden teeth? [answer]
4. Why did John Hancock go down in history as the notable signer of the Declaration of Independence? [answer]
5. What was the Articles of Confederation? [answer]
6. Who wrote the U.S. Constitution? [answer]
7. Was the U.S. Constitution originally written in German? [answer]
8. Which were the original thirteen United States? [answer]
9. What is the Bill of Rights and why was it added to the U.S. Constitution? [answer]
10. Who determines whether a law violates the liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? [answer]
11. How are amendments made to the U.S. Constitution? [answer]
12. What amendments have been made to the U.S. Constitution? [answer]
13. Why does the president of the United States give a State of the Union Address? [answer]
14. How were the Southern states brought back into the Union? [answer]
15. What was Reconstruction? [answer]
16. What were carpetbaggers? [answer]
17. What were scalawags? [answer]
18. How were Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt related? [answer]
19. What were the "fireside chats"? [answer]
20. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt called the "people's first lady"? [answer]
21. Who popularized the term "Iron Curtain"? [answer]
22. Why is the Kennedy presidency called "Camelot"? [answer]
23. How many U.S. presidents have been assassinated? [answer]

Political Groups

1. Who are considered the Founding Fathers of the United States? [answer]
2. What was the Kitchen Cabinet? [answer]
3. Who were the Know-Nothings? [answer]
4. Who were the Whigs? [answer]
5. How did the Republican Party begin? [answer]
6. How did the Democratic Party begin? [answer]
7. What was the League of Nations? [answer]
8. How was the United Nations formed? [answer]
9. When did the United Nations begin its work? [answer]
10. Why was Mohandas Gandhi called "Mahatma"? [answer]
11. What is the Palestinian Liberation Organization? [answer]

Political Scandals

1. Why were impeachment proceedings held against U.S. President Andrew Johnson? [answer]
2. What was Teapot Dome? [answer]
3. What happened at Watergate? [answer]
4. What was the Iran-contra affair? [answer]
5. Why were there impeachment proceedings against U.S. President William Clinton? [answer]