I'm going to give you an historical word. You come back with another word that is related to that word that is historical. The next person responds to that word and so forth. Use people, places, events, or objects.
Starting Word: Gladiator
Coliseum?
Emperor Vespasian
Holy Roman Emperor
Charlemagne
King Richard
King Henry II (his father)
King Henry II
Ummmm..... I'll come back in a little while LOL!
Elizabeth II: present queen
Crown Jewels
Tower of London
Tower of London
Beheadings
Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake!"
Marie Antoinette "Let them eat cake!"
King Alfred
(according to legend, burnt the cakes)
King Alfred
Historical legends
Historical legends
Camelot!
Merlin
The red dragon on the Welsh flag
(Merlin's prophecy in which the red dragon - the Celts - would prevail over the white dragon - representing the invading Saxons.)
Red dragon on Welsh flag
Druids
Stonehenge
The Summer Solstice
I think maybe I kinda backed us into a corner, so dum diddy dum diddy dum dum dum . . . Who IS that masked woman? . . . I'll try to get it started again. It took some brainwork. Ouch.
Summer Solstice
It's connected with the Sun since ancient times.
Louis XIV
LOL Mona!
Thanks for redirecting everyone.
Versailles
Revolution
Guillotine
Antoine Lavoisier
The "father of modern chemistry" who fell victim to it because of an affront to Marat.
Antoine Lavoisier
Farmer's General - Group to which Antoine Lavoisier was accused of belonging to that led to his arrest & execution
Farmer's General
Inquisition (famous for arrests and executions)
Inquisition
Catholic church
Catholic Church
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
The 95 Theses (nailed to the All Saints' Church door)
Geneva
Swiss Guard
<the common link is Switzerland>
Smarty pants!
Corruption
Mafia
LOL @ Rebecca
Sicily
Island
(I almost said The Golden Girls -- Ma's from Sicily, the old country LOL)
I wonder what we would have come up with Golden Girls?
Crete
Minoans
Linear A (I want you to know I had to look that up, I thought we'd gone algebraic!)
Hieroglyphics
and oh boy -- we could really hop out there and get wild and crazy with the golden girls LOL
hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone
Sara - LOL - Just learned about Linear A in class.
Rosetta Stone
Napoleon
Napoleon
Battle of the Pyramids
Battle of the Pyramids
Sphinx
Tragedy
This could be most of history! Out of the many possible candidates, I'm going for:
Seven Years War (1754 - 1763)
It lasted more than seven years and was a global war. It involved much of Europe, North America and because of European colonization, included bits of West Indies, Africa, India and the Philippines. Some historians think that it -- rather than the 1914-18 war -- should be considered World War I.
LOL - I was wondering what would be the word associated with "tragedy".
Ok. Here we go.
Seven Years War
France
France
Battle of Hastenbeck
Battle of Hastenbeck
Hanover
Hanover
King George II of England, also Elector of Hanover
King George II
Wilhelmina Caroline of Anspach (wife)
Queen Caroline of Brunswick (wife of King George IV)
Wilhelmina Caroline of Anspach, wife of George II
King George III
grandson of George II & the above lady.
Neither of GIII's grandparents could stand his father Frederick and didn't even go to his funeral when he died and GII was pleased when his grandson became the heir apparent.
It's dark now, but earlier on I could see Kew Palace, which was the place where George III and his Queen Charlotte got away from it all with their large family.
King George III
mental illness
mental illness
result of untreated syphilis
Al Capone (we go down some strange paths in history
)
Al Capone
Alcatraz <c'mon, I just follow the bread crumbs>
Alcatraz
Native American occupation 1969-71
<oh, now you're entering into Phyllis' realm>
Native American occupation 1969-71
1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie <basis for the legal control dispute>
Phyllis, come show us up!
She would probably have me step in in her absence.
We bow to your knowledge
Phyllis can't be everywhere at once!
(Phyllis, you're late!!)
1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Dawes Enrollment
No need to bow. I'm not royalty, just a peasant of the cyberworld & yearner for knowledge.
The Dawes Enrollment
(Athough, the Dawes enrollment process didn't start for another 30+ years from the Ft Laramie Treaty.)
Cherokee
Cherokee
Me (oops, that's not historical)
Oklahoma Land Run of 1889
Oklahoma Land Run of 1889
Dust Bowl
Black Sunday (as a side note, this all happened near where I live, my grandmother lived through it)
FDR
FDR
Eleanor Roosevelt (one of my great heroines)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Civil Rights (Advocate)
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK, Jr
Lincoln Memorial (site of his 'I have a Dream' speech)
Lincoln Memorial
National Mall
(had to change, just noticed I'd posted in the wrong spot LOL)
National mall
shopping
LOL - just kidding
washington monument
Washington monument
Revolutionary War
LOL @ Rebecca
Revolutionary War
The Constitutional Congress
The Constitutional Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The Enlightenment
Nietzsche
Eternal Recurrence
Oh dear, I'm stuck here. If only I could remember what I came up with last time round.
Eternal recurrence
Universe
Scientists.
Charles Darwin.
Devolution
Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru (National Assembly for Wales)
Here's where they meet:
Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru (National Assembly for Wales)
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Caernarfon Castle
Caernarfon Castle
Segontium - the Roman fort at what is now Carnarfon
Segontium
Aqueduct - Had this if it was Roman
Aqueduct
Viaduct - from Latin "via" meaning road
Viaduct
Pont Serme - viaduct in southern France
Pont Serme - viaduct in southern France
Rome - they were experts at viaducts.
Adoption
Foundling Museum (London)
Foundling Museum When visiting the museum I picked up a book by BBC reporter Kate Adie "Norbody's Child" - a book which explores the search for identity engendered when you do not know anything about your birth parents.
Foundling Museum (London)
hmmm... Museum - London :
Tower of London
Tower of London
Princes (in the Tower)
Temple
The Knights Templar
The Knights Templar
Al Aqsa Mosque
The Ziggurat <a pyramidal tower>
Pyramids
Pyramids
Good ol' Egypt
Nile
Valley of the Kings (near Luxor)
Archaeologists
Lord Carnarvon
Lord Carnarvon
King Tutankhamun Tomb
King Tutankhamun Tomb
The Curse
Is this a historical curse or a folkloric curse?
The Curse
Entering the Tomb
Entering the Tomb
Tombraiders
Tombraiders
Archaeologists
The Great Wall
Offa's Dyke
Offa's Dyke
Wall of Severus
Hadrian's Wall
Roman Empire - Hadrian's Wall delineated the frontier boundary across a narrow section of England
Roman Empire (ironic - my current class)
Augustus
Augustus
Pax Romana - 2 centuries of relative peace; Empire expansion by diplomacy and trade while military force was mainly used in frontier skirmishes
Pax Romana
Roman Imperialism
Diplomacy
Alliances and Treaties
Alliances and Treaties
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
World War 1
Serbia
Yugoslavia - of which Serbia was one of the kingdoms that formed the country
Yugoslavia
Ottoman Turks - conquered at one time.
Ottoman Turks
Murad II - ruler of Turks that helped expand empire
Anyone got an association with this one?
Murad II
Sabre of Osman - Turkish Sultans were girded with the sabre as their coronation
Sabre of Osman
Bursa - where he was coronated
Bursa
Silk Road - Westernmost end of the famous trade route while originally named Prusa after the Bithynian King Prusias I
<I held off hoping others will join in... Guess I scare them away.>
LOL, Beetle. You are just too good for everyone.
Silk Road
Trade Route
Trade Route
Marco Polo - established overland trade route to China
The Orient
Gunpowder - invented and Used in ancient China
Fireworks
Independence Day
Independence Day
Philidelphia
Philidelphia
American Colonies - Philidelphia was the social and geographical center of the 13 colonies
American Colonies
King George
King George
Pains and Penalties Bill - introduced by George IV in a desperate, unsuccessful, attempt to divorce his wife, Caroline
Pains and Penalties Bill
Duchess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb�ttel
Brunswick-Wolfenb�ttel
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand - Duke who gained great fame at the Battle of Hastenbeck
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand
Invasion of Hanover
Invasion of Hanover
Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War
War of the Austrian Succession - war that led into the Seven Years' War
War of the Austrian Succession
King George�s War - as called in America
King George�s War
Colonial America
Colonial America
The Mayflower Compact - foundational document for the Plymouth Colony; settlers would subordinate their rights to follow laws to ensure protection & survival.
The Mayflower Compact
Plymouth Colony
Come on! We need more than just me and Beetlemess doing all this hard work
Plymouth Colony
Squanto - a Native American of the Patuxet tribe aided the group of Separatists and Anglicans in Plymouth
Squanto
Tisquantum - Squanto's real name.
Tisquantum
Patuxet Tribe Member - now an extinct Native American tribe, due to plagues, of the Wampanoag tribal confederation
Patuxet Tribe Member
Native Americans
Native Americans
Reservations
Native Americans
Aborigines