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1 Who was the first female ruler of England?

A) Victoria

B) Matilda

C) Mary I

D) Elizabeth I

2 What treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?

A) Treaty of Tordesillas

B) Treaty of Utrecht

C) Treaty of Versailles

D) Treaty of Westphalia

3 What ancient civilization used hieroglyphics as writing?

A) Egyptians

B) Romans

C) Greeks

D) Persians

4 What was the main goal of the civil rights movement's Freedom Riders?

A) A trade expedition

B) A cycling competition

C) Testing and

D) A road trip

5 What ancient empire was centered in modern-day Iran?

A) Babylonian Empire

B) Persian Empire

C) Median Empire

D) Assyrian Empire

6 Who was Che Guevara?

A) Argentine

B) A Brazilian poet

C) A Spanish painter

D) A Mexican president

7 What famous document begins with 'When in the Course of human events'?

A) Gettysburg Address

B) U.S. Constitution

C) Emancipation Proclamation

D) Declaration of Independence

8 What was the feminist movement of the 1960s-70s often called?

A) Post-feminism

B) First-wave feminism

C) Third-wave feminism

D) Second-wave feminism

9 What civilization built Machu Picchu?

A) Aztec

B) Inca

C) Olmec

D) Maya

10 What was the significance of the Treaty of Shimoda (1855)?

A) It established trade with China

B) It ended the Opium Wars

C) It divided Korea

D) It established the first

11 What ship sank in the North Atlantic in 1912?

A) Titanic

B) Britannic

C) Lusitania

D) Bismarck

12 What empire built Hagia Sophia?

A) Ottoman

B) Roman

C) Byzantine

D) Persian

13 What empire built aqueducts?

A) Persian

B) Greek

C) Chinese

D) Roman

14 What was the Silk Road for?

A) Religious pilgrimage

B) Military conquest

C) Trade between East

D) Slave trade

15 What weapon did samurai carry?

A) Bow only

B) Spear only

C) Katana

D) Club

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