World History Questions With Answers
31. Between which powers were the Punic Wars fought?
Answer: Rome and Carthage
32. What was an amphora in ancient Rome?
Answer: A special pottery to keep liquid in ancient Rome
33. Between whom was the Battle of Thermopylae fought?
Answer: Greek City-States and Persia
34. Which country is credited with the tradition of a written constitution?
Answer: America
35. In which year did labor union protests in Chicago and other U.S. cities, culminating in police firing, lead to the establishment of May 1 as Labor Day?
Answer: 1886
36. What were the taxes extracted by the Church in late eighteenth-century French society called?
Answer: Tithes
37. What does the Great Depression in the 1930s refer to?
Answer: An economic hollowing out leading to widespread unemployment and collapse of stock values
38. Where was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
Answer: Sarajevo
39. In which years did the Glorious Revolution take place?
Answer: 1688-89
40. Who is known as the "Father of Greek Medicine"?
Answer: Hippocrates