In his most famous book, he describes the great funeral pyre of Croesus, the Ionian revolt, and the defense of Thermopylae by three hundred Spartan soldiers. name this “Father of History,” a Greek historian who wrote about the Persian Wars in his 10-volume Histories.

While travelling in Egypt, this person described a machine that allowed heavy objects to be lifted for pyramid construction, which came to be known as this person's namesake machine.

Aside from the Cylinder, most of what is known of Cyrus’ reign comes from what “father of history,” who traced the origins of the Greco-Persian War in his Histories?

This writer’s most famous work begins by describing the rapes of Io, Europa, and Medea.

That essay “On the Malice of [this man]” accuses him of lying by claiming that Queen Artemisia was prophetic. Urania is the 8th of nine books named for the Muses that make up a work by this man.

Answer the following about historians and their works. :This man wrote Histories, which discusses the Persian War, and is known as “The Father of History.”

This author tells the stories of Solon and Croesus in his Histories. This man is often called the “Father of History.”

name this "Father of History" who wrote the Histories.

Wrote the first book of history, The Persian Wars?

This man is thought to have confused the word “marmot” for “mountain ant” because of his description of dog-sized ants in India digging up gold in sandy areas.

Fragments of a work by this man were discovered at Oxyrhynchus [[awk-see- RIN-kuhs]].

This author likely confused marmots for giant gold-digging ants in India.

An essay in Moralia criticizes this historian for prejudice. This author of The Histories is considered the "father of history."

The Oracle of Delphi tells Croesus [[KREE-sus]] that an empire will fall if he attacks the Persians in a work by this historian, who wrote about the destruction of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Mycale [[me-KAH-leh]].

Artemisium and Plataea [[plah -TEE-ah]] were the sites of battles recounted by this person, who was criticized by their contemporary, (*) Thucydides [[thoo- SID-it-eez]].

This writer created a humorous dialogue between Odysseus and Gryllus, one of Circe’s pigs.

The most substantial account of the Sacred Band comes from this Greek-born Roman philosopher and priest of Apollo, known for his Moralia.

A set of “Sayings of Spartans” was collected by this one-time priest at the Temple of Delphi in a work which also contains an often-cited account of Egyptian burial rites, the Moralia [[moh-RAH-lyah]].

This historian asked "Why were patricians not permitted to live on the Capitoline?" as the ninety-first in a series of Questions in one of his works.

Answer the following about anecdotes from classical coups, .This author inserted an anecdote about a broken rope into his account of the failed coup of Cylon, which is found in a work that pairs biographies of Greeks and Romans.

This Greek historian used an analogy about a beautiful sandal to explain Rome's casual attitudes to divorce. This man's best-known book offers biographies of Pyrrhus and Marius.

As what was likely a rhetorical exercise, this man composed the treatise “On the Malice of Herodotus.” For most of his life, this historian served as one of the priests in charge of the Delphic Oracle.

This author is best known for a work containing 48 biographies which are grouped into pairs featuring one Greek and one Roman. name this Roman historian who wrote Parallel Lives.

This writer’s essay “Isis and Osiris” preserves a story about Isis attempting to burn away the mortality of the prince of Byblos, (+) Dictys.

That work uses moral anecdotes to link character with physiognomy, and links Eumenes with Sertorius, Cicero with Demosthenes and Theseus with Romulus. identify this Roman historian who wrote the Parallel Lives.

Seneca Crane's successor as Head Gamemaker has this first name, which he shares with an ancient author who wrote the Parallel Lives, a set of biographies of ancient Greek and Roman figures.

It was the birthplace of this author of the Moralia, whose best known work arranges anecdotes of famous Greek and Roman historical figures to explore common themes of character and morality.

In that work, Numa Pompilius is contrasted with Lycurgus, while Alcibiades is compared to Coriolanus. name this author who contrasts Greeks and Romans in his Parallel Lives.

This historian collected the pithy sayings of Laconic Women in one book. His best known work begins by comparing Theseus with Romulus.

Along with Proclus, this neo-Platonist writer originated the motif of the “veil of Isis.” In his most famous text, this writer paired (*) the myths of Theseus with Romulus.

Ancient Greek historian and author of History of the Peloponnesian War.

This disgraced Athenian general wrote a renowned eight-book History of the Peloponnesian War, which includes Pericles' funeral oration.

In one work by this man, a winning army’s diplomats state that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” This man’s most famous work includes the Melian Dialogue and recounts how the Delian League was led into war against Sparta.

This historian chronicled the Battle of Amphipolis, the plague of Athens, and numerous other events in his major text on the Peloponnesian War.

This man was defeated by Brasidas at the Battle of Amphipolis, and he later wrote about the murder of the tyrant Hipparchus by Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

This author credits one leader as saying “we are lovers of beauty without extravagance” in a passage in which that leader presents his city as the school of his entire country.

The tone of this man's major book may be influenced by his own twenty years of exile, which occurred after he surrendered Amphipolis (pr. am-FIP-uh-liss) as a general.

Historian who recorded Pericles's "Funeral Oration" in The History of the Peloponnesian War.

”September 1, 1939” states that this ancient Greek historian knew “All that a speech can say about/About Democracy,” alluding to his record of Pericles’ funeral oration in his most famous work.

One Athenian politician of this name, a son of Melesias, was ostracized after confronting Pericles. A more famous man of this name wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War.

This man’s most famous work discusses the Battle of Sphacteria and the Sicilian Expedition in its eight books. :Name this author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.

This Athenian general wrote a History of the Peloponnesian War, which notably included many reconstructed speeches. He has been called the “father of scientific history”, echoing an epithet of his countryman Herodotus.

This man recorded such momentous speeches as the Melian Dialogue and the Funeral Oration in a book that contains extensive information about the Delian League and Pericles. name this historian who authored the History of the Peloponnesian War.

Pericles’ Funeral Oration was recorded by this ancient Greek historian and author of a History of the Peloponnesian War.

This Athenian historian’s History of the Peloponnesian War serves as more of a mythos than an actual history, but it does contain Pericles’ Funeral Oration.

Roman historian of Agricola whose Annals discusses Boudica’s revolt.

Historians who used this man’s teachings to support Republican ideals have been called his “red” supporters.

In A Most Dangerous Book, Christopher Krebs argued that an ethnographic work by this writer helped to define the core concepts of Nazism.

This author’s account of the reign of Caligula is a lost section of a text that describes the assassination attempt on Agrippina and begins just after the death of Augustus.

In a text written after the death of his father-in-law, this author described the customs the ancient Britons.

This author of Agricola described Sejanus’ manipulation of an emperor in another work.

One was a respected old man who was offered the throne, initially refused, accepted, appointed Florianus as Praetorian Prefect and thus held off an invasion but died after only one year.

This man wrote, "They have made a desert and call it peace" in a work that opens by describing the Year of the Four Emperors.

This historian wrote a biography of Agricola, who was his father-in-law. The reigns of Nero and Tiberius are extensively covered in his Annals.

This author wrote about the reigns of the emperors Tiberius, Claudius and Nero in his most famous work. name this Roman writer of a history of the Flavian emperors and the Annals.

A non-Christian source of evidence for the existence of Jesus can be found in this Roman historian’s Annals, which describes Pontius Pilate’s execution of “Christus.” This historian also write the Histories.

This Roman historian dubbed the Cherusci “lazy fools” in his Germania. This historian may have completely made up a speech attributed to Calgacus in the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law.

name this Roman historian of Agricola and the Annals.

Much of what we know about Boudicca comes from the writings of this Roman historian, who is known for his Annals and Histories.

This historian wrote about the execution of a man named "Christus" by Pontius Pilate in a book that covers leaders between Augustus and Nero.

In a letter to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this thinker claimed he changed his name “primarily so as to cease to be confused with the poet Roi.” While spying on Frederick the Great during the War of the Austrian Succession, this man began working on his Philosophical Dictionary.

This man created a Babylonian philosopher whose love, Sémire abandons him after his rival strikes him in the eye in his work Zadig. This man argued "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" in his Philosophical Dictionary.

This French philosopher used the Great Lisbon Earthquake as a counter to the idea that "this is the best of all possible worlds" in his Candide.

This man fought for Jean Calas’ innocence after his execution, writing about Calas’ trial in the Treatise on Tolerance.

What earlier resident of the Bastille wrote Candide (can-DEED)?

A radical free speech advocate and the author of Candide?

This man paid a visit to Louis XVIII in the Low Countries, earning the pejorative nickname “The Man of Ghent.” :Name this man who loomed large over pre-1848 French politics as a jack-of-all-trades minister to Citizen King Louis Philippe.

This thinker mocked Leibniz’s “optimistic determinism” in a philosophical satire. name this French enlightenment thinker, the author of Candide.

This lumière often attacked the Catholic Church, ending his letters with "crush the infamy!"

The second lettre de cachet issued against this author of Letters on the English was for his dispute with the Chevalier de Rohan-Chabot (shuh-vahl-YAY duh roh-AWN-shah-BOH). This man often used the expression "crush the infamous!" in his letters to monarchs like Frederick II and Catherine the Great.

This man was tasked as a spy during the War of the Austrian Succession, but came to exchange letters with Frederick the Great. name this French writer who satirized Leibniz's philosophy in Candide.

Prominent French watchmakers such as Jean-Antoine Lépine worked at the Manufacture Royale founded by this man in Ferney. This man campaigned to posthumously exonerate Jean Calas after his unjust execution.

This man stayed as a guest in the newly-built palace of Sanssouci (sawn-soo-SEE), where he completed the proto-science fiction story Micromégas.

Frederick was a frequent correspondent of this Enlightenment thinker, who came to live in his court. This Frenchman also corresponded regularly with Catherine the Great.

In a work by this author, the title character is mentored by the optimist Professor Pangloss. name this enlightened French writer who created Candide.

This historian and author of On Famous Men detailed Caligula’s insanity in Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

This historian was Hadrian’s secretary, but was dismissed after he got too close to Hadrian’s wife Sabina. :Name this author of The Twelve Caesars.

He declined a British military tribuneship obtained for him by Pliny the Younger, who this man may have followed to Bithynia.

Many stories of Caligula’s escapades, like alleged incest and placing Incitatus into the Senate, come from this historian who chronicled the lives of Caligula and other Julio-Claudians in The Twelve Caesars.

In 2025, Holland translated this historian's The Lives of the Caesars, which details the Roman emperors up to Domitian’s reign. This historian had access to the imperial archive by being Hadrian’s secretary.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, in a 1983 study of this writer, claimed that this writer “knew that he stood in the shadow of a giant.” It is unclear whether this writer’s reference to “Jews” incited by “Chrestus” refers to Christians.

The most famous man of this name was dismissed from secretarial service due to a mutual disgust for Vibia Sabina after having been aided into Imperial favor by Pliny the Younger.

This author wrote the Lives of the Caesars about the first 11 emperors, as well as On Famous Men.

He managed libraries and archives for Trajan, but his highest post was ab espistulis – Imperial secretary – to Hadrian. name this Roman historian who wrote biographies of Julius Caesar to Domitian in The Twelve Caesars.

Lives of the Twelve Caesarswas written by this Roman historian and secretary of Hadrian, a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny the Younger.

This writer listed grants made by Vespasian in a seeming attempt refute the latter’s reputation for stinginess, and described Augustus yelling for Varus to “give me back my legions.” name this Roman historian, who according to Wallace-Hadrill sought to supplement Tacitus rather than challenge him in the work The Twelve Caesars.

This historian claimed the Incitatus stunt and mockery over his “feminine voice” led Cassius Chaerea to assassinate Caligula. This historian’s The Lives of the Caesars covers the first Roman emperors up to Domitian.

His once-popular Prata has not survived and, though he’s often considered the least rhetorical of the Silver Age authors, he recalls Julius Hyginus in his De Grammaticis.

The general who defeated Boudica shared his name with this Roman historian, who wrote The Twelve Caesars, a group biography of the first leaders of the Roman Empire.

FTP, name this family of Romans whose most famous member, with cognomen Tranquillus, was the author of De viris illustribus and De vita Caesarum, The Lives of the Caesars.

Rockefeller’s underhanded pricing tactics were exposed by this muckraker, who published The History of the Standard Oil Company in McClure’s magazine.

Rockefeller and Standard Oil were both attacked by this muckraker in her book The History of the Standard Oil Company.

This writer’s father Franklin became the first person to manufacture wooden oil tanks. :Name this writer who wrote a 19 part book on the company that eventually put Franklin out of business, often called the inventor of investigative journalism.

She’s not Nellie Bly, but this author became a frequent Sanatorium visitor following the success of her biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Standard Oil’s monopolistic practices raised the ire of this muckraking journalist, whose father had been a Pennsylvania oilman.

5: This author once described Samuel McClure as a “will of the wisp” after he missed a train.

The History of the Standard Oil Company was written by this muckraker who based the work on her father’s experiences with the company.

Inspired by the bankruptcy of her father’s competing business, this muckraking journalist inspired public outcry with her book, The History of the Standard Oil Company.

This Greek historian’s Anabasis recounts battling the Colchian armies while attempting to lead his mercenary company, the “Ten Thousand,” to the Black Sea.

After Clearchus was killed shortly after the Battle of Cunaxa, this man led a march of soldiers that ended with the yell “thalatta!” upon reaching freedom at the Black Sea.

This author continued Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War in his Hellenica. Like Aristotle, this man wrote a well-regarded work discussing the constitution of the Spartans.

This Greek historian writes that Agesilaus and Lysander took a force of two thousand Neodamodeis on the expedition to Asia in his Hellenica. He also wrote about the Persian expedition of Cyrus in his Anabasis.

The death and last words of one of the Thirty Tyrants, Theramenes [[theh-RAH-meh-nees]], is described in Hellenica, by this commander of the Ten Thousand, who gives an account of their expedition in Anabasis [[an-AH-bah-siss]].

Two of the oldest surviving works on horse riding are this man’s treatises Hipparchicus and Peri Hippikes.

This author’s Memorabilia is a collection of teachings by his teacher, Socrates.

This man chronicled that Expedition of the Ten Thousand in one work and idealized his slain commander, a Persian king, in another work, the Cyropedia. name this Greek soldier, philosopher, and historian who wrote the Anabasis.

The battle and the march of the ten thousand mercenaries were documented by this Greek historian in his Anabasis.

One of his works was an early example of the "mirrors for princes" genre, a biography entitled the Cyropaedia.

This Greek mercenrary leader recounted passing through Armenia during his march with the Ten Thousand in his Anabasis.

This man began his Hellenica almost exactly where Thucydides left off his History. He is better known for his Anabasis, which details the return of the Ten Thousand to Greece after they were stranded in Persia.

Despite its title, only the first chapter of this author’s best known work describes a journey inland to join Cyrus the Younger. name this Greek who wrote about the Ten Thousand in his Anabasis.

The last seven years of the Peloponnesian War are chronicled in this other Greek historian’s Hellenica. This historian also described how the Ten Thousand fought on behalf of Cyrus the Younger in his Anabasis.

This Greek historian wrote a fictionalized biography of Cyrus the Great called the Cyropaedia. He documented Cyrus the Younger’s failed attempt to usurp the Persian throne in his Anabasis.

Ab Urbe Condita was written by this Roman historian, who also titles a set of Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli.

FTP, give the name shared by these men, the last of whom describes the kings of Rome, the early Republic and the second Punic War in the surviving books of his massive history Ab Urbe Condita.

This Roman, who served in some capacity in the reign of Augustus, is best known for his book Ab Urbe Condita, or the History of Rome, which begins with the arrival of Aeneas and continues through Julius Caesar.

Another work by Macchiavelli is his Discourses on... this Roman historian whose From the Founding of the City covered the history of Rome from its founding through the reign of Augustus Caesar.

The “cutting the poppies” story is detailed in the first book of this author’s Ab Urbe Condita.

Answer some questions about Roman historians, .This Augustan author wrote 142 books of history tracing Rome’s development from the mythical age of Troy to his lifetime. His vivid account of the Second Punic War against Hannibal still survives.

Book Seven of this man’s surviving work recounts how Titus Manlius got the cognomen “Torquatus” by duelling with a Gaul, and how a solar eclipse occurred during Manlius’s consulship with Caius Marcius Rutilus, after the dedication of the temple of Moneta.

As its name suggests, the Annals told their history one year at a time, a technique also used by this historian in his 142-book Ab Urbe Condita, only 35 books of which are extant.

This historian began with the arrival of Aeneas and concluded with the death of Drusus in his massive Ab urbe condita.

Ancient Rome was home to many notable historians. :This man wrote of the fall of Troy and Aeneas’ founding of Rome in Ab Urbe Condita Libri, his History of Rome.

The most famous holder of the name was a rhetorician from Padua who published the last 22 books of his magnum opus posthumously because they dealt with the contemporary history of the Emperor Augustus.

Most records of the Samnite Wars come from this Roman historian, who detailed it in his Ab Urbe Condita. Only 35 of the original 142 books have survived.

A text called the Periochae summarizes this historian’s work, which includes an oft-disputed account of Cincinnatus returning to his farm.

Machiavelli also wrote a series of Discourses on this Roman historian, who wrote the now mostly lost Ab Urbe Condita.

Machiavelli praised Brutus in his “Discourses on” this Roman historian who authored Ab Urbe Condita, a history of Rome from its founding to the reign of Augustus.

Han historian who claimed they buried over 400 Confucian scholars alive in his Records of the Grand Historian.

You can read about the beginning of China’s Grand Canal in the work of this Han-era historian, who authored the Records of the Grand Historian.

This man was ostracized from court and imprisoned after defending the defeated general Li Ling, whose campaign against the Xiongnu [] went disastrously.

This court official orchestrated the adoption of the Taichu calendar system, used up until the 17th century by the Ming Dynasty.

This man wrote that mercury was used to model China’s waterways in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huangdi, a finding corroborated by the site’s unusually high mercury levels. :Name this scholar who opted for castration over suicide as punishment for defending Li Ling in order to finish his magnum opus.

His major work consists of 130 chapters divided into five parts, including "Chronological Tables" and "Treatises." :Name this man known as the “Father of Chinese History,” who was castrated for defending the disgraced general Li Ling.

Incurring the wrath of Han emperor Wu Ti, this historian was forced to choose between suicide and the completion of his masterwork, the Shi chi. He chose the latter. The moral? History is better than death.

This Chinese writer’s magnum opus, the Records of the Grand Historian, records how the legendary sovereign Shen Nong discovered how to use dàmá, or cannabis, as an herbal remedy.

This "Grand Historian" of the Han Dynasty recorded an appearance of Halley's Comet in the Shiji, a masterwork that he completed after the death of his father.

The Records of the Grand Historian is the most famous historical work of this man, who was in fact the grand historian of the emperor Wudi.

Author of the Records of the Grand Historian, a Han-era chronicle.

This court eunuch wrote a biography of emperors starting with Huangdi, also known as the Yellow Emperor, to his contemporary Emperor Wu of Han. name this "Father of Chinese Historiography," the writer of Records of the Grand Historian.

Wu is the last emperor mentioned in the Shiji or Records of the Historian, written by this contemporary historian whom Wu imprisoned and castrated for defending a disgraced general.

Bai Qi’s bloody campaigns were chronicled by this Han Dynasty eunuch, the author of the Records of the Grand Historian.

This author worked with Charles Dudley Warner on an 1873 book satirizing political corruption called The Gilded Age.

Author who wrote To the Person Sitting in Darkness criticizing the Philippine-American War

This author wrote a semi-fictional account of his travels out to the Wild West in the book Roughin’ It.

This writer’s opposition to the collection of indemnities by William Ament after the Boxer Rebellion prompted him to write an essay “To the Person Sitting in Darkness.” This author made a chronicle of a westward stagecoach journey with his brother Orion.

What American writer of travel books like Roughing It and A Tramp Abroad was both born and died in the years in which Halley's Comet was visible from Earth?

This author presented a fictionalized account of the USS Quaker City’s post-Civil War use in his travel book The Innocents Abroad.

This man's poor investments in ventures such as the Paige Compositor led to his bankruptcy, which he overcame with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers.

Southern antebellum society inspired this author to write The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

This author, whose birth and death coincided with the arrival of Halley’s Comet, wrote about Tom Canty switching places with Prince Edward.

This man's publishing company, Charles L. Webster & Company, produced many of this man's works such as Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. This man accurately predicted he would "go out with it" when referring to Halley's Comet as he died the day after its 1910 appearance. name this author who chronicled his travels in memoirs such as The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It.

This author of Roughing It also wrote about his early years as an apprentice to a steamboat captain in Life on the Mississippi, in which he explained the genesis of his pen name. name this author, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for his Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

While mining at Angels Camp, this man was inspired to write a story about a jumping frog from Calaveras County.

This author described his time traveling the American West in his semi-autobiographical work, Roughing It.

In a novel, this author wrote about a boy who encounters the Duke and the Dauphin [[doh-FAHN]] while traveling down the Mississippi with an enslaved man named Jim.

Characters created by this author include Becky Thatcher, Widow Douglas, and the slave Jim. name this American author, who depicted life along the Mississippi River in novels such as Tom Sawyer.

This man advocated for the creation of a Continental Charter as an answer to England’s Magna Carta.

This Englishman got his first job in America as a writer and editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine.

This man's "Bank Letters" were slandered by the anonymous author "Atticus" and were instrumental in turning public opinion in favor of the Bank of North America. The publisher Robert Bell publicly feuded over the rights to a book by this man, whose second section argues that there is no moral difference between a king and his subjects.

He was sued for libel after writing a response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, and he criticized organized religion and the divinity of the Bible while advocating for the rise of deism in The Age of Reason.

This man resigned his post on the Committee on Foreign Affairs after backlash to his criticisms of Silas Deane and Robert Morris as war profiteers.

This corset-maker outlined his deist beliefs in The Age of Reason and condemned "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" in an attempt to raise support for the soldiers at Valley Forge.

This author posited that "Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another" in a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, after which he was put on trial in absentia.

James Chalmers wrote Plain Truth as a response to this man’s most famous work.

After publishing a rebuttal to Edmund Burke, this man was placed on trial in England despite still being in the colonies.

This man was tried in absentia for publishing a work that refuted Edmund Burke by arguing that the French Revolution was justified since it targeted the misdeeds of the institution of monarchy rather than the king himself. name this author of Rights of Man who proposed an American Magna Carta in his 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense.

This colonial pamphleteer wrote The Age of Reason and The American Crisis in addition to Common Sense.

This man argued that nothing but "blood and ashes" results from governments run by "crowned ruffians" in a work that outlines a replacement for the Magna Carta.

This author of The Crisis wrote "these are the times that try men's souls." name this pamphleteer of the American Revolution who wrote Common Sense.

The absurdity of an island ruling a continent was observed by this early American revolutionary thinker in his 1776 pamphlet Common Sense.

This author described "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" who shrink from "the times that try men's souls" in The American Crisis.

This man served as an advisor to the emperor Titus after fighting against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War, an event he recounted in his The Jewish War.

While under siege at Yodfat, this man had a divine revelation about the rise of the Flavians which led to his pardoning and allotment of an imperial pension.

That mass suicide followed this man’s defeat in the siege of Jotapata.

Using this ancient man's descriptions, archaeologist Ehud Netzer discovered the location of Herod's Tomb near Herodium.

A 2025 book by Tom Schmidt contends that this author’s namesake Testimonium was entirely genuine, rather than containing a Christian interpolation. :Name this Jewish historian who briefly discussed Jesus, John the Baptist, and James the Just in his Antiquities of the Jews.

Name some things about the Codex Gigas, the world's largest extant illuminated manuscript. :Among the many texts included in between the Old and New Testaments are two texts by this 1st century Jewish historian: Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish War.

This man rejected numerous claims including the Egyptian exodus involving 110,000 men over a six day period and that Mt. Sinai is not in Arabia in one work.

Cassiodorus translated the Jewish Antiquities by this First Century A.D. historian of the Jewish War. He wrote about Jews.

Much of our knowledge about the siege of Masada comes from this Jewish historian who wrote The Jewish War.

Beginning with the Maccabean revolt and ending at Masada, this writer recounts the rise and downfall of his people in De Bello Judaico.

In that book, this historiographer gives a brief history beginning with Antiochus IV Epiphanes’ capture of Judea and end with accounts of Vespasian and Titus putting down “The Great Revolt”. identify this author of Against Apion and The Jewish War whose namesake problem is determining which person survives when every nth is killed.

The writings of this onetime rival of John of Gischala (ghis-KAH-lah) and governor of Galilee (GAH-lih-lee) are believed to have been tampered with to portray Jesus as the Messiah.

This famous Jewish historian wrote about Jesus’ death, as well as many aspects of Judaism and early Christianity. During the first Jewish-Roman War he headed the Jewish forces in Galilee.

name this Jewish Roman chronicler and companion of Emperor Titus who provides extra-biblical accounts of men like John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.

The reigns of Aristobulus I and Aristobulus II were detailed by this historian. This Roman-Jewish historian detailed many facets of Jewish history, including the siege of Masada.

This well-traveled Greek of the 2nd century wrote Description of Greece, which links classical myth with various locales. He shares his name with the general who defeated Mardonius at the Battle of Plataea.

This person escaped arrest by taking refuge in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House, where he was starved out, and he was removed from the temple before dying so as to not desecrate the temple.

At that battle, this person finally ordered an advance while arrows were falling around him when he finally received a favorable goat omen.

A son of Pleistoanax (PLEE-stow-ah-nax) with this name settled an agreement with Athens to remove the Thirty Tyrants.

This regent for Pleistarchus was recalled from Byzantium because he began adopting Persian manners and clothing.

This person attempted to take refuge at Colonae after being driven out of Byzantium by Cimon.

Accusations against a general with this name of conspiring with the Persians led to the isolation of his city in the Hellenic league.

A general of this name died in the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos because angry citizens sealed it with bricks.

This member of Philip II’s bodyguard assassinated him. He shares his name with a 2nd-century CE geographer who wrote Descriptions of Greece.

This person commanded the winning forces at a battle preceded by the death of Masistius.

The theory connecting the invasion of the Dorians to the descendants of Heracles was largely put forth by this second-century Greek historian in his main surviving work, Description of Greece.

Amompharetus joined the rest of the Greek retreat on the advice of that man with this name in a battle against the Persians led by Mardonius.

At that battle, this person had a debate with Amompharetus, whose division was left behind in a retreat.

This man wrote I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked after losing the 1934 California gubernatorial election.

This author stated, "I was aiming for the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" after one of his novels led Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act.

A police officer supposedly said we'll have "none of the Constitution stuff here, see?" after this man was arrested reading the Bill of Rights in San Pedro in 1923.

His novel Oil! provided the basis for the film There Will Be Blood. :Who was this Socialist author of King Coal and a series of books about Lanny Budd?

After this man campaigned as the Democratic candidate for governor of California, he observed, “The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.” This man created left-leaning works like The Flivver King, a direct attack on Henry Ford, and Oil!, which inspired the film There Will Be BloRod.

At the launch of a political campaign, this man circulated a pamphlet called "I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty." This man depicted the graceful scion of an arms magnate who interacts with world leaders in the 1930s and 40s in his twelve-book series about Lanny Budd.

While analyzing clerical and administrative workers, this author coined the term “white collar.” This man’s “Dead Hand” series includes a work that critiques newspaper moguls like William Randolph Hearst titled The Brass Check.

The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in response to this author's novel The Jungle.

Ona dies during childbirth in a novel by this author that centers on Lithuanian immigrant Jurgus Rudkus's contempt for the Chicago meatpacking industry.

After losing the 1934 California gubernatorial election, this man authored I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got F Licked.

This author penned The Jungle and also unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California.

However, he is better remembered for books like Boston, his treatment of the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and a novel which was first serialized in Appeal to Reason. name this author who wrote about Jurgis Rudkus in The Jungle.

This man attacked the Associated Press monopoly in his book The Brass Check, and he used the EPIC platform in a failed 1934 bid for the governorship of California after switching from the Socialist Party to a Democratic ticket. name this muckraking author who wrote King Coal and an expose of the meatpacking industry, The Jungle.

That novel by this author concerned the Lithuanian immigrant Jurgus Rudkus, who works in Chicago's historic meatpacking industry. name this activist and author of The Jungle.

Earlier, this socialist depicted the end of Tamoszius's [[taa-MOH- zee-us's]] violin career and the travails of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkis. name this author who said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" about his novel set in Chicago meatpacking plants, The Jungle.

This man, who described the travels of a disillusioned man in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, died in Missolonghi in 1824.

This man once offered 500 pounds for the purchase of the twelve-year-old girl Teresa Makri, a failed bid that led to his poem “Maid of Athens, ere we part.” After meeting his cousin at a ball, he compared her to “the night of cloudless climes and starry skies” in another poem.

This poet of the narrative poem The Siege of Corinth is regarded as a hero for his participation in the Greek War of Independence during which he got sick and died.

This author's alleged incestuous relationship with his half-sister may have resulted in the birth of Elizabeth Medora Leigh.

A poem by this man popularized the legend of the Ukrainian Ivan Mazepa, who deserted the Russian Army for Sweden.

This author was described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know" by his mistress Lady Caroline Lamb.

This person’s many poems include The Siege of Corinth and the thirty selections in Hebrew Melodies.

Among the supporters of the Luddites was this father of computer programming pioneer Ada Lovelace.

“She Walks in Beauty” and Don Juan [JOO-un] were written by this English poet who died fighting in the Greek War of Independence.

This person’s only legitimate child is often regarded as the world’s first computer programmer.

This author died of sepsis before he could help attack the Ottoman fortress of Lepanto during the Greek War for Independence. name this Romantic poet, the author of "She Walks in Beauty."

Later on, this writer developed sepsis during the siege of Lepanto.

This literary member of the House of Lords supported the Luddites and wrote the poem Song for the Luddites. He may be better known for Don Juan [].

Shelley drowned in a boat named the Don Juan in homage to what other poet this person who wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and died fighting in the Greek War of Independence.

This person helped to make Greek independence a fashionable cause. name this person, whose death during the siege of Missolonghi [[mee- soh-LOHN-gee]] enshrined him as the exemplar of the Romantic Age.

This man provided support, but far less than half the writing, for a text that begins “A spectre is haunting Europe.” name this author of The Condition of the Working Class in England and co-author of The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.

This man argued that Robinson Crusoe’s enslavement of Friday used force as a means to the end of economic advantage in his work Anti-Durhing.

A book by this man was translated into English by Florence Kelley in 1885 and discusses the exploitative practices of the textile industry in Manchester.

This historian wrote that people “only regard each other as useful objects,” in the manner of another author’s book The Ego and Its Own, in a passage examining St. Giles and other neighborhoods in “great towns.” This historian used Wilhelm Zimmerman’s data as a source for his monograph The Peasant War in Germany.

Name these Marxist historians, FTPE.Perhaps the earliest example of Marxist historiography is this man’s discussion of Thomas Muentzer in The Peasant War in Germany. However, he is better known as the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England.

He attacked the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, and he spoke out against the institution of marriage in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

At the request of Paul Lafargue , this historian excerpted three chapters from one of his polemics in a pamphlet that examines “utopian and scientific” forms of the title ideology.

19th century thinker who studied the German Peasants’ War and wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England.

Kelley was also a keen correspondent with this man whose The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 she translated into English. Her translation is in print to this day.

This thinker analyzed the residents of Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England, arguing that they were disadvantaged by the Industrial Revolution.

This man’s works include a worked named for a prince of Tyre, who shares his name with an Athenian statesman, Pericles.

In one play by this author, he describes a “band of brothers” in the St. Crispin’s Day Speech, delivered by a royal character shortly before the Battle of Agincourt.

Thomas Nashe may have co-written the Temple Garden scene with this author in a trilogy of plays in which nobles pluck red or white roses to support either the Duke of Somerset or Richard Plantagenet.

In a play by this author, a man who gave away all of his money at a banquet finds a hoard of gold while living in a cave in the wilderness.

This man's fictitious sister Judith is hypothesized to make a point about women writers in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.

One hypothesis about this man is the Derbyite Theory, which notes the similarities between William Stanley’s life and fictional depictions.

A play by this author opens with a Catholic martyr quelling rioters from Lombardy on Evil May Day.

This husband of Anne Hathaway was a native of the town of Stratford upon Avon where he died in 1616.

Another of this writer’s plays has characters based on Holinshed’s Chronicles and is considered cursed in theatre circles.

This author wrote a play in which the images of an armored head, a bloody child, and a crowned child warn a king of Scotland that he cannot be harmed by a man “of woman born,” though the king is later killed by Macduff anyways. name this author of the historically inspired tragedies Timon of Athens and Macbeth.

This man left only his "second-best bed" to his widow Anne Hathaway, but did leave women such roles as Cordelia, Beatrice, and Ophelia. name this author of King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet.

This author of Sir Thomas More wrote a play whose protagonist describes himself as "determined to prove a villain" in a speech opening "Now is the winter of our discontent." name this playwright of histories including Henry VI and Richard III.

This man wrote historical plays about Kings Henry IV, V, VI, and VIII and perhaps his most famous work is titled for a prince of Denmark. name this English author of works such as Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet.

This member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men staged numerous plays at the Globe Theater. name this “Bard of Avon,” an English playwright who wrote Julius Caesar and Hamlet.

History plays like Richard III were written by this legendary English playwright.

The flogging of Boudica was recorded by this Roman historian who published an eighty-volume history of Rome up to the reign of Severus Alexander.

Contrary to Appian, whose longest work shares the title of this of historian’s magnum opus, this man reported that Mithridates VI was murdered after immunity to poison thwarted a suicide attempt.

This man’s extant work is fragmentary, and most of the final half is only known through the eleventh-century epitome of Joannes Xiphilinus.

One source for the details of Nero’s naumachia comes from this man’s eighty-book history of Rome titled the Romaika.

The most complete book of this man’s work is the thirty-sixth, which details Pompey’s expeditions against the pirates and Pontus.

One section of his main text was collected into the Fragmenta Valesiana by Henri de Valois.

This man, who was also a consul in the reign of Commodus, wrote an 80-book volume in Greek entitled Historia Romana, that began with the legendary founding of Rome and went all the way until AD 229. Like Suetonius, he puts the blame for the fire on Nero.

The World of Late Antiquity emphasizes how quickly Rome’s “Crisis of the Third Century” emerged by stating that this author “lay down his pen in 229 with no sense of foreboding.” This author’s 80-book History of Rome was written in Greek.

Like Martial and Suetonius, this Bithynian historian’s work describes the inauguration of the Coliseum. His 80-book History of Rome, which spans the founding to the third century CE, survives in fragments.

His history ends with the death of Heliogabalus and is written in Greek in the style of Thucydides. name this author of the eighty-volume Roman History, a Roman historian who came just after Tacitus and Suetonius.

Information about the Praetorian Guard comes from this Roman historian of Greek origin, who wrote an 80-book Roman History. At one point, the Guards demanded the life of this historian.

This man served as consul in 205 and 229 AD and wrote a lengthy history of that went up to the time of Alexander Severus, though only portions of it survive.

One of the chief sources for Boudicca’s revolt comes from this Roman historian’s Romaika, a text written in Greek originally consisting of 80 books.

This historian was an eyewitness to the speech delivered by Septimius Severus after the latter overthrew Julian, as this man was a senator at the time.

The Federalist Papers were written by Jay, Hamilton, and Madison under this pseudonym.

Every writer of the various Federalist Papers published under what pseudonym?

It isn’t Lucretius, but Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolo de Niccoli discovered many of this historian’s lost texts in the Hersfeld Abbey; Bracciolini was later accused of forging this historian’s most famous work.

Giuseppe Toffanin identified two types of followers of this historian: “red” types who follow his republican ideals and “black” types who identify with his version of realpolitik.

His reference to the execution of Jesus during Tiberius’s reign is a rare non-Christian reference to the origins of Christianity. :Name this Roman historian who wrote the Annals.

It is not Josephus, but this historian detailed Titus’s suppression of the Great Jewish Revolt in the fifth section of one of his works.

Although written by three men, the Federalist Papers were signed by this one word pseudonym.

That book takes place after the assassination of Domitian and details the conquest of Britain by his father-in-law, Agricola. name this historian who chronicled the lives of emperors Augustus through Nero in the Annals.

“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire” ends one of many diatribes against Rome in one of this historian’s books.

The authors of the Federalist Papers used this pseudonym in honor of the Roman consul who helped established the Roman Republic.

Was a prisoner from the Achaean League, was present at the sack of Carthage, and wrote Histories about the Roman Republic?

Hellenistic scholar who wrote The Histories about the Punic Wars, including a description of the production of barley-based libations.

This historian claimed that a commonwealth was united by a “scrupulous fear of the gods.” This historian claimed that Cleoxenus and Democleitus invented a fire-signaling technique to communicate individual letters, known as this historian’s “square.” This was the first historian to record the story of a young Hannibal Barca placing his hand on a sacrificed animal and swearing never to be friends with Rome.

Identify the following about some ancient historians, .This son of Lycortas of Megalopolis was taken to Rome, where he befriended Scipio Aemilianus. A practitioner of “pragmatic history”, his The Histories contains details about the Second Punic War.

This 2nd-century BCE Greek historian from Achaea lauded Ephorus as the first universal historian. He wrote The Histories, a 40-volume work on the rise of Rome with five surviving books, including extensive commentaries on the Roman constitution.

This man, who also wrote a lost treatise on battle tactics, was taken prisoner after he led the cavalry of the Achaean League on a failed diplomatic mission, but unlike his compatriots, he was allowed to go free.

This man was a tutor to Scipio Aemilianus while he was being held as a Greek hostage in Rome following the Third Macedonian War. His Histories are one of the principal sources for the First and Second Punic Wars.

FTP, name this historian born around 200 BC who wrote the forty-book Histories on the rise of the Roman empire.

This man was party to the escape of Seleucid prince Demetrius from Rome which enabled the overthrow of Antiochus V. This man was given the honour of carrying the ashes of Philopoemen while a young man, and was later denounced by Callicrates, and taken as a hostage by Rome. name this Achaean politician and historian from Megalopolis, who while in exile in Rome became close friends with Scipio Aemelianus, whose family figures prominently in this man’s Histories.

This Roman historian’s praise of the Senate as an aristocratic check on the rights of the people heavily inspired John Adams’ “A Defense of the Constitutions.” This formulator of the concept of anacyclosis is also known for creating a grid display of letters of the alphabet often used in telegraphy and codes.

In 167 BC, this Greek noble was taken as a hostage to Rome. His situation wasn’t so bad, however, as he became a historian there and wrote History of Rome which is one of our best sources for the First Punic War

This leading statesman of the Achaean League was deported to Rome, where he began writing his 40 volume Histories; they discuss the rise of the Roman Empire and contain a notable account of the Punic Wars.

Another author of a work called the Histories was this Greek historian whose ideas of government influenced Montesquieu. He lived through and recorded the Roman conquest of Greece.

One of the primary sources for information about the Mercenary War comes from this Greek ex-patriate who posited that Rome's greatness came from its balance of power in his Histories.

Much of our history of the 2nd Punic War comes from the work of this captive Greek historian, who was part of the entourage of Scipio Aemilianus, adoptive grandson of Africanus.

Shortly after being exiled by her brother John II, this historian described the effects of the First Crusade upon the Byzantine Empire in an account of the reign of her father Alexios I, the Alexiad.

In one work, this author describes the Norman woman Sikelgaita as “like another Pallas, if not a second Athena,” in a text that also includes an account of the Battle of Dyrrhachium. :Name this historian, who was exiled to a monastery after a failed coup attempt against John II.

This historian’s most famous work begins with a quote from Sophocles’ play Ajax. :Name this historian who documented events like the death of Robert Guiscard and the war with the Pechenegs in that work. This historian wrote that work after being exiled to a monastery for plotting a failed coup with Irene Doukaina .

Niketas Choniates claimed that this person was “stimulated by ambition and revenge” to attempt a coup against their brother with the encouragement of Irene Doukaina, aiming to replace him with Nikephoros Bryennios.

Another important Byzantine woman was this historian who wrote about the reign of her father in the Alexiad. She entered a convent after her plot to depose her younger brother John was discovered.

This twelfth-century Byzantine princess became one of the first known women historians by penning the Alexiad, which narrates the dynasty-establishing reign of her father Alexios I.

This woman may have been inspired by the material laid out by her husband Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger to write a chronicle of her father’s rule named the Alexiad.

In a funeral oration to this person, George Tornikes asked “To whom shall I compare the one who is entirely unsurpassable?”, eventually resolving to compare them to a phoenix.

This woman wrote admiringly of the manly traits of Empress Irene in her influential Byzantine history, The Alexiad.

In mourning, this person lamented their misfortune by stating “now I live and have died a thousand deaths”.

A discussion of the Little Ice Age opens another book by this historian that covers the “Calamitous 14th Century.” This historian is best known for a 1962 work whose “Outbreak” section details Franz Ferdinand’s assassination. name this female historian who wrote A Distant Mirror and The Guns of August.

This historian described the “calamitous” fourteenth century in her book A Distant Mirror. :Name this historian who described the military escalations of the July Crisis in The Guns of August.

Another work by this author examines the events of the “calamitous 14th century” through the lens of Enguerrand VII de Coucy.

This author coined a law stating that reporting of deplorable events increased the apparent extent by five to tenfold, which was stated at the start of the book focusing on Anne Bradstreet.

A work by this author details Helmut von Moltke the Elder’s affinity for reading Victorian romance novels before heading into battle.

A book by this historian that is sometimes titled Sand Against the Wind examines the life of Joseph Stilwell in China.

This historian’s namesake law argues that disaster is far less common than various reports suggest.

This historian wrote about the anti-Semitic newspapers covering Dreyfus in The Proud Tower. She wrote a detailed account of the days leading into World War I in The Guns of August.

This woman drew connections between the 14th and 20th centuries in A Distant Mirror, and described the opening of World War I in The Guns of August.

This author won a Pulitzer for her biography of Joseph Stilwell, though she is better known for her book on the July Crisis. name this author of The Guns of August.

This granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau documented incidents such as the Great Awakening raid.

This popular historian discussed how irredentist feelings towards Alsace-Lorraine and calls for revanche against the Germans intensified the Dreyfus affair in The Proud Tower.

The funeral of Edward VII opens her best known work, which ends by discussing the Battle of the Marne. name this author of The Guns of August.

This American historian wrote the book Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45. She is better known for writing about the origins of World War I in The Guns of August.

This historian wrote a book titled for the “first salute” that Hopkins had received. She won her second Pulitzer Prize for Stillwell and the American Experience in China.

This author fictionalized Vice-President Aaron Burr in her novel The Minister's Wooing and depicted fugitives in the Great Dismal Swamp in Dred.

In a novel by this author, the slave Harry runs Nina Gordon’s southern plantation while another character preaches violent retribution for slavery.

This author bolstered the reputation of Florida as a tourist destination through a book of letters titled Palmetto Leaves.

This author was a close friend and travel companion of Elizabeth Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll.

In an 1864 essay, this author argued that coal-fired stoves hurt family unity compared to gathering around an open hearth. Abe Lincoln supposedly called this author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin “the little woman who made this great war.”

answer the following about the abolition of slavery in the United States:The white abolitionist movement in the northern US was led by reformers like William Lloyd Garrison, and writers like John Greenleaf Whittier and this author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

So-called “white slave propaganda” was employed by abolitionists to expose the hypocrisies of the one-drop rule, including this author, who described Eliza as “all but white” in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

The response to the debates was overseen by the college’s president Lyman Beecher, whose children included this author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Writer who Abraham Lincoln might have greeted by saying, "you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."

The title character is beaten to death by Simon Legree in this author’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

This writer and abolitionist wrote the introduction to the second edition of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, though she is far more famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Truth was described as the “Libyan Sibyl” by this woman who wrote the introduction to Truth’s autobiography and wrote Lady Byron Vindicated.

This author, who painted an unflattering portrait of Aaron Burr in The Minister’s Wooing, also wrote a novel in which Eva St. Clair urges those around her to convert to Christianity and Simon Legree orders one of his slaves to be beaten to death. name this author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

It claims that the title figure must be both cunning like a fox and powerful like a lion, as evidenced by the success of Cesare Borgia.

In chapter 19 of this work, Septimius Severus is said to emulate both a lion and a fox.

This work is often compared to its author's less known work, Life of Castruccio Castracani.

Mary Dietz argues that this work was not meant to be satirical.

This work extols Agathocles of Syracuse and Oliveretto Euffreducci.

This book notes that “men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their inheritance.” This book encourages risk-taking by saying that “fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her.” The first half of this book is an analysis of new, hereditary, and ecclesiastical states.

In Chapter XVII of this work, its author describes men as “ungrateful, fickle, dissembling, [and] anxious to flee danger,” while Chapter XXII states that the intellect to comprehend things independently is the most excellent kind of intellect.

Chanakya's Arthashastra is often compared to this Machiavelli work, since they both discuss how a monarch should rule. Unlike this work, the Arthashastra focuses on maintaining general prosperity, not just monarchical power.

This work suggests that the title figure ought to emulate the lion and the fox. :Name this political tract that argues that it is better for one to be feared than loved.

In this work, the execution of Remirro de Orco by Cesare Borgia is given as an example of conquest by fortune.

Alexander VI is often used as a good example of the title figure of this political treatise about how the title ruler can obtain and maintain power, written by Niccolò Machiavelli.

Cesare Borgia served as the direct inspiration for this early modern political treatise, an analysis of statecraft and government written by Niccolò Macchiavelli.

It praises Cesare Borgia and also advises rulers to be both a fox and a lion.

This work declares that it is better to be feared than loved. name this political treatise written for one of the Medicis by Niccolo Machiavelli.

This work was addressed to the Duke of Urbino, Lorenzo de' Medici, and uses the metaphors of the lion and fox. name this political treatise by Machiavelli.

The ancient town of Miletus {MILL-AH-TUSS} was one of the wealthiest cities in the Greek empire until a 6th century BCE invasion from the east. …Name this empire, sometimes referred to as the Achaemenid {AH-KIM-AH-NIDD} Empire, that conquered Miletus and the rest of Anatolia under their leader, Cyrus the Great.

This play is the oldest extant example of Greek tragedy. :Identify this play in which Queen Atossa's ominous dreams are realized when word arrives in Susa of the title people's defeat at the Battle of Salamis.

The ethnicity which went to war against the Ottomans for a final time under Abbas I?

Name these ancient peoples that lived in modern-day Iran, :The Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great was the first great expansion by these people. These people form the majority of the population of present-day Iran.

This oldest complete surviving play in the history of literature won its author, Aeschylus, first prize at the 472 BC Dionysia. In it, Queen Mother Atossa anxiously awaits news of her son Xerxes’s expedition against the Greeks.

Historical work by Sima Qian [chee-ahn] in which he compiled a variety of sources on the Han Dynasty.

Hereditary Houses and the Basic Annals make up two of its five sections.

During a mountaintop sacrifice in this text, a king decrees an inscription extolling how he “rises early, sleeps late” to work for his subjects, whom he calls the “black-headed people.” This text’s preface describes its author’s desire to use the office he inherited from his father to continue his father’s dream, rather than the office’s main job of astronomy.

One episode in this work relates how a ruler entered his outhouse to find the dismembered, rotting corpse of his father's lover, traumatizing him into a life of sexual deviancy and leaving the throne in the hands of his mother.

This text is also known as the Shiji. :Name this historical text that discusses Chinese history from the legendary Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu. It is divided into “Basic Annals,” “Tables,” “Treatises,” “Hereditary Houses,” and “Ranked Biographies.”

This work imagines a worm eating a mulberry leaf to explain the rapid success of one figure; that man's near-murder with a knife concealed in a scroll appears in this work's catalogue of assassinations.

The historically controversial chapter of this text about merchants condemns governments that “block up the eyes and ears of people” and opposes a thinker’s ideal state of isolated self-sufficient communities.

Much of what is known about the Shang dynasty is derived from this massive Han era history written by Sima Qian.

The anecdote about the Bai Qi (bye chee), "The Human Butcher," appears in this text by Sima Qian (suh-mah chee-EN), which claims that the Xia (sh’YAH) Dynasty were the first rulers in the lands that comprise modern-day China.

Much of the extant information about the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, including their supposed loss in the Sì River, is recorded in this text written by Sīmǎ Qiān during the Hàn Dynasty.

The discovery of oracle bones defended this text from criticism that its description of 30 Shang dynasty rulers was not based on written fact.

Running from the Yellow Emperor to Wudi, name this most famous history of China, compiled by Han historian Sima Qian.

To finish this work, its author refrained from suicide after Li Ling's failed attack on the Xiongnu led to his castration.

The Shang dynasty is recounted in this masterpiece of Sima Qian, which begins by describing the reign of the Yellow Emperor.

Exaggerated accounts of King Zhou’s reign come from this history written by Sima Qian . It spans from the reign of the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu.

Survey ordered by William the Conqueror that gives the closest pre-Black Death population of England.

Incomplete thanks to the Harrowing of the North, it is divided into the “Great” portion which excludes the area north of the river Tees, and the “Little” portion dealing with Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk.

This work’s origin was described by Richard FitzNeal in Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer, a medieval treatise on the role of the treasurer.

Sections of this work begin by describing the King’s demesne [de-main].

This document records a survey that assessed “what or how much each … landholder here in England had in land or live-stock, and how much money it was worth.” :Name this book commissioned in 1086 by the victor of the Battle of Hastings. This book’s name refers to the Last Judgment.

Richard FitzNeal wrote that this document’s name was so-called because its decisions were unalterable, like those of the Last Judgement. :Name this document that was ordered by William the Conqueror in order to survey every shire in England and document all dues owed to him.

The name of this work is described in the Dialogus de Scaccario, and it is declared that this work “cannot be evaded by any skillful subterfuge.” It has nothing to do with Jewelry, but this work was held in Bodmin Prison during World War One.

name some stuff about England after the Norman conquest:William the Conqueror ordered the compilation of this book, a record of holdings of all Englishmen to be used for tax collecting purposes.

Its name refers to the Last Judgement because its property evaluations were considered final; those evaluations served in calculations of taxes owed during the reign of Edward the Confessor. name this “Great Survey” of England, compiled during the reign of William the Conqueror.

This mass survey of England and the Welsh Marches was ordered by William and completed in 1086. Its primary goal was to find out how much tax revenue William could earn.

The survey which gathered the information for it took place the following year. name this book which containsa detailed census of English land and people, comissioned by William the Conqueror.

Records from this book indicated that Sherwood Forest covered about a quarter of Nottinghamshire . This “Great Survey” was commissioned by William the Conqueror for tax purposes.

Perhaps the best known items in the National Archives are the two volumes of this 1086 survey of England and Wales commissioned by William the Conqueror.

Among William the Conquerors more famous acts was taking a census and survey of his kingdom for tax reasons, which was published in this tome.

As King in 1085-6, William the Conqueror took this survey of English land to determine taxation.

The phrase “Chicago will be ours!” is chanted at a socialist rally attended by the Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus at this novel’s conclusion.

A rousing cry of “Chicago will be ours!” distracts the protagonist of this novel at its end.

As a result of this book’s publication, one president sent Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill to investigate working conditions.

A boy in this novel drowns in a puddle of dirty water after his teenage mother Ona dies in childbirth.

After a character in this novel is fired from her job, she stops trying to woo the violinist Tamoszius [tam-osh-ee-us].

J.A. Wayland gave this work early exposure by publishing it serially in his socialist paper, Appeal to Reason.

The cousin of the protagonist’s wife is forced into prostitution, shortly after Ona’s death in childbirth.

The final place of employment for this novel’s protagonist is at Tommy Hind’s hotel.

The author of this book lamented "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach" after this book led to the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act. name this novel about Chicago meatpacking by Upton Sinclair.

Sinclair is best known for this novel about Jurgis Rudkus’s tough life and work in the Chicago slaughterhouses, which famously helped spur the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.

Theodore Roosevelt privately described an “utter contempt” for this novel’s author, though he signed legislation creating the FDA after this novel “hit the public’s stomach”. name this muckraking novel about Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant working in the meat-packing industry, written by Upton Sinclair.

This novel’s protagonist converts to socialism after seeing Antanas drown in a mud puddle.

Some 400 homeless people were living in the East Duwamish Greenbelt section of Seattle, better known by this name, prior to a 2016 shooting. Another place with this name originally developed around a Seveso Zone landfill in Calais.

The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in response to this novel about the Chicago meatpacking industry, written by Upton Sinclair.

This novel’s protagonist, Jurgis Rudkus, moves to Packingtown from Lithuania, but only finds work in unkempt factories whose depiction enraged readers. name this novel that exposed Chicago’s meatpacking industry, written by Upton Sinclair.

This work’s preface notes that its author had held off from writing it because of the executions of Rusticus and Senecio. :Name this work, whose subject is described as preferring the talent of one people to ‘the studiousness of the Gauls’. This work claims that Romanization ‘was called “culture” among the ignorant when it was part of their enslavement’.

His reign also saw a revolt led by Saturninus, and he recalled Agricola from Britain after Agricola won the battle of Mons Graupius.

Wrote about his father-in-law’s experiences in Britannia in Agricola?

Gaddafi outlined his political philosophy in this Mao Zedong-inspired book, which was supposed to be required reading for all Libyans.

The second volume of this work argued that “To an individual, the family is more important than the state” arguing that workers should be “partners, not wage earners” advocating an equal distribution of national resource wealth because “the house belongs to [those] who live in it.” This book spread popular slogans like “committees everywhere to ensure that “demoracy is the supervision of the people by the people.” This book’s first volume was promulgated after the failed coup of Revolutionary Command Council member Umar el-Muhayshi in 1975 and reiterated ideas from the Zuwara speech.

This work's last section prognosticates that “Grandstands will disappear because no one will be there to occupy them” and denounces the sports of boxing and wrestling as savage behaviors.

The author of this book recast some of its ideas into a short parable about an astronaut that commits suicide, which can be found in his collection Escape To Hell.

A section of this text about the “means of transportation” declares that “no person” has the “authority to own a means of transportation for the purpose of renting it,” since it means controlling the needs of others.

This book advocated the creation of a state based on consultation rather than representation, a Jamahriyya.

This book argues for the abolition of money, and the first of its three volumes, The Solution of the Problem of Democracy, appeared in 1975 and outlines its formulator's “Third International Theory.” The Great Socialist People's Jamahiriya state was partly based on this book, written by its author after deposing King Idris I. name this work of political thought by Muammar Qaddafi.

This work argues ironically that “imposing specific teaching materials is a dictatorial act” and was displaced on school curricula following a 2011 revolution. name this political primer of Muamar Gaddafi.

Sundown towns were among the hazards described in this guide written by a New York City mailman that advised Black drivers in annual editions from 1936 to 1966.

In this book, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei make the Oath of the Peach Garden. :This is what historical novel in which the Shu Han, Wu, and Wei principalities fight?

In this book, two friends are turned against each other after a south wind fails to materialize, and one of those men constructs the Stone Sentinel Maze in battle.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao are the protagonist and antagonist of this Luo Guanzhong novel, which details the conflict between Wu, Wei, and Shu after the fall of the Han dynasty.

A video game series created by Omega Force and Koei that is based on this novel lets you kill opponents to fill your musou bar to perform special attacks, and is called Dynasty Warriors.

A character in this novel, based on a historical warlord also known as Xuande [], throws his infant son to the ground after General Zhao Yun [] risks his life to save him during the Battle of Changban [].

The Battle of Red Cliffs appears in this novel which relates the campaigns of Cao Cao [] and Zhuge Liang [[TCHOO-guh LYAHNG]].

In this novel, one character obtains arrows by sending out dummies in boats, and then collecting the arrows shot at the dummies.

This work describes a corrupt set of eunuchs as well as the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

A general in this work convinces his enemies that he can perform magic by praying to an alter for three days until a southeasterly wind appears. name this book where a Sun Quan-Liu Bei alliance defeats Cao Cao at Red Cliffs, a classic novel by Luo Guanzhong.

In this novel, Dong Zhou seizes Luoyang , prompting battles between himself and Cao Cao. name this ancient work by Luo Guanzhong about the feuding Shu, Wu, and Wei families.

Luo Guanzhong [] wrote this historical “Romance” set during a namesake period of Chinese history.

That same character becomes head of the Five Tiger Generals, swears the Oath of the Peach Orchard with two other characters, and becomes the god of war at the end of this work.

This book’s climactic scene is the Battle of Red Cliffs. name this historical Chinese novel partially named after the states of Wei, Wu, and Shu.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei become sworn brothers in this novel, which features the manipulative Cao Cao. name this work, which along with Journey to the West, Water Margin, and The Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the four classical novels of China.

Beginning with the Yellow Turban Rebellion and describing the personages of militaristic figures like Cao Cao, name this early Chinese novel that is one of the four Chinese Classics, set in the titular time period.

This work claims it is absurd for an island to rule a continent.

Another chapter of this work claims that a certain monarch did little but “make war and give away places”.

This work ends by saying “instead of gazing at each other with suspicious or doubtful curiosity, let each of us hold out [...] the hearty hand of friendship,” before calling “Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct.” Benajmin Rush edited this work, whose final section calculates the value of the British navy, noting America’s natural resources give it the potential to rival it.

In response to this work, John Chalmers took the pen name Candidus to claim that it would lead to “Civil Wars and Intestine Commotions.” This work argued that “time makes more converts than reason” and proposed a Continental Charter to replace the Magna Carta.

This work’s second section, “Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession,” calls kings “crowned ruffians” and argues against John Locke’s idea of a constitutional monarchy.

This work’s printer, Robert Bell, added the phrase “written by an Englishman” without the author’s permission.

Another section quotes from Giacinto Dragonetti’s On Virtue and Rewards, asks whether William the Conqueror’s heritage means Britain should be ruled by the French , and calls for a congress to be assembled to draft a charter for a government where “the law is king.” “Of The Origin and Design of Government in General” is the opening section of this work, which was later reprinted with an appendix responding to the concerns of Quaker representatives.

One section of this work comments on the absurdity of an island ruling a nation, and another argues that the colonies have enough resources to rival the navy of Great Britain. name this pamphlet written in 1776 by Thomas Paine.

Royalties from this work were anonymously donated to the Continental Army.

This document criticized the English monarchy, and its hereditary system of leadership, stating that these men “contribute nothing towards the freedom of the state.” name this pamphlet, designed to provide its titular reasoning for American independence and written by Thomas Paine.

This 1776 work by Paine argues that no mother should treat her children as horribly as Britain had treated the American colonies; therefore, the colonies should declare independence.

This work points out the absurdity of an island ruling an entire continent in a section that outlines a Continental Charter that will replace the Magna Carta.

Citizen Genet’s father arranged for the French edition of this Paine pamphlet, which, like The American Crisis, argues for the American Revolution.

Benjamin Rush supplied the title for this tract, which was primarily a scathing critique of the British monarchy.

The absurdity of an island ruling over a continent is noted by this 1776 pro-revolution pamphlet by Thomas Paine.

Since “Spring and Autumn” is used as a metonym for “year,” that title is often translated with this English term. These historical records are organized year-by-year, unlike other kinds of chronicles.

That work is known for its heavy-handed use of alliteration, including an entire line filled with words starting with “m” and another with “t”.