Saturday, October 19, 2024

The History of the World, I guess




In pairs

One of you is an alien who has just had to make an emergency landing on Earth. You know absolutely nothing about the planet.


Questions for Alien to ask


1. When did you start living in cities?
2. When did you start using cars?
3. Have you always used money?
4. Why is English so common?
5. Who were the Romans?
6. What are pyramids?
7. Where did people originate?
8. When did you invent the alphabet?
9. Why did you invent the nuclear bomb?
10. What is "religion", and why is it important?
11. What is "capitalism" and where did it come from?
12. Which culture invented the most stuff?
13. What are humans most worried about these days?
14. Whats the "plague"?
15. How come you have a number "zero"?
16. Why are there big "M"s everywhere?
17. Which is the most important country?
18. Who was/is the smartest person in history?
19. Why haven't you visited our planet?
20. Can I have your email address so we can keep in touch?





The History of the World, I guess



Put the following major events in world history in order

WW2
The Space Age
The Middle Ages in Europe
The Iron Age
The birth of Jesus Christ
The formation of the first stars
A meteor strikes the earth causing the extinction of the dinosaurs
the Bronze Age
The French Revolution
Alexander's conquest of parts of Asia
Viking raids
The Cold War
The Russian Revolution
AI








Watch in sections, guess the order these will be mentioned before you watch and then check:


1.

Space dust

Nothing

Gas

Rocks and ice

Quarks

Protons and neutrons

Stars



2.

Ocean

DNA

Cambrian explosion

Oxygen

Meteor

Egg




3.

Farming

Fire

Society

Bronze

Mesopotamia

Indo-Europeans



4.

Christianity

Chandragupta

Iron

Alexander

Romans

Spices

Qin dynasty




5.

Vikings

Moors

Silk Road

Camels

Chandra Gupta

Charlemagne

Islam





6.

Columbus

Martin Luther

Holy Roman Empire

Mongols

The Crusades

The Italian Renaissance



7.

Ottoman Empire

Latin American Independence

American Independence

French Revolution

Napoleon

Sugar slavery




8.

Opium Wars

Machines

American Civil War

Scramble for Africa

Russian Revolution

WW1

Fall of the Ottomans



9.

Decolonisation

WW2

Communism in China

Artificial intelligence

Indian Independence

Collapse of the Soviet Union

9/11

Cold War


Kahoot Quiz!

35 questions





Check order:

Nothing

Quarks

Protons and neutrons

Gas

Stars

Space dust

Rocks and ice

Ocean

DNA

Oxygen

Cambrian explosion

Egg

Meteor

Fire

Farming

Mesopotamia

Society

Bronze

Indo-Europeans

Iron

Alexander

Chandragupta

Spices

Qin dynasty

Romans

Christianity

Silk Road

Camels

Chandra Gupta

Islam

Moors

Charlemagne

Vikings

Holy Roman Empire

The Crusades

Mongols

The Italian Renaissance

Columbus

Martin Luther

Ottoman Empire

Sugar slavery

American Independence

French Revolution

Napoleon

Latin American Independence

Machines

Opium Wars

American Civil War

Scramble for Africa

WW1

Russian Revolution

Fall of the Ottomans

WW2

Indian Independence

Communism in China

Cold War

Decolonisation

Collapse of the Soviet Union

9/11

Artificial intelligence



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