World History Sweep

World history survey · Medium · 20 min

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This board helps players review History · World through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Ancient World, Middle Ages, Modern Era, World Wars, Empires. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Ancient World

    Egyptian writing using pictures.

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    Hieroglyphics

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  • Middle Ages

    1066 battle in England.

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    Battle of Hastings

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  • Modern Era

    Year the French Revolution began.

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    1789

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  • World Wars

    Years of WWI.

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    1914-1918

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  • Empires

    South American empire conquered by Pizarro.

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    Inca

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Board content

Ancient World

$100 — Egyptian writing using pictures.
Hieroglyphics
$200 — Greek philosopher who taught Plato.
Socrates
$300 — First emperor of Rome.
Augustus (Octavian)
$400 — Great Wall built mostly to defend this country.
China
$500 — River civilization in modern Iraq.
Mesopotamia (Tigris & Euphrates)

Middle Ages

$100 — 1066 battle in England.
Battle of Hastings
$200 — 1215 English document limiting the king's power.
Magna Carta
$300 — Plague that killed millions in 14th-century Europe.
Black Death
$400 — Religious wars between Christians and Muslims for the Holy Land.
Crusades
$500 — Empire ruled by Genghis Khan.
Mongol Empire

Modern Era

$100 — Year the French Revolution began.
1789
$200 — First emperor of the French (post-Revolution).
Napoleon Bonaparte
$300 — Country where the Industrial Revolution began.
Great Britain
$400 — Assassination that sparked WWI.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
$500 — Year the Berlin Wall fell.
1989

World Wars

$100 — Years of WWI.
1914-1918
$200 — Years of WWII.
1939-1945
$300 — Treaty ending WWI.
Treaty of Versailles
$400 — D-Day landing location.
Normandy, France
$500 — Country that dropped atomic bombs in WWII.
United States

Empires

$100 — South American empire conquered by Pizarro.
Inca
$200 — Mexican empire conquered by Cortés.
Aztec
$300 — Empire whose capital was Constantinople.
Byzantine (or later Ottoman)
$400 — Russian rulers were called this.
Czars / Tsars
$500 — Empire 'on which the sun never set' (19th c.).
British Empire

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