Middle Grades Competition Starter Lists
The starter lists are an optional resource for the middle grades students. Middle
grades Teams may choose to use the starter list for their chosen category
as a guide when making some or all of their ten selections, or they may
make selections on their own.
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Ancient Civilizations
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Abd al-Rahman III Ahuitzotl Alexander the Great Anasazi Antony, Mark Aryabhata I Attila the Hun Augustus Aztec Brahmans Brutus, Marcus Junius Buddhists Caesar, Julius Caligula Cleisthenes Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest Confucius Constantine Cyrus Darius David, King of Israel Euclid Gandhi, Mohandas Gautama, Siddhartha Goths Han Dynasty Hannibal Harappan civilization Herod Agrippa Hindus Hipparchus of Bithynia Huns Hunter Gatherer Culture Imhotep Inca Indus Valley civilization Mencius Ming Dynasty Minoans of Crete Mixtec Mongols Montezuma II Muhammad Ngo Quyen Olmec Ottomans Pachacuti Pericles Pharoah Khufu Philip of Macedonia Philip V Plato Ptolemy Qin Dynasty Queen Hatshepsut Ramses II Richard III Shang Dynasty Shi Huangdi Solomon, King of Israel Sumerian society Theodoric the Great Tiberius Titus Tutankhamen Vespasian Visigoths Vitruvius Wudi Zhou Dynasty |
Aryan migrations into India Assassination of Julius Caesar Babylonian captivity of Hebrews Bantu migrations Battle of Cannae Battle of Chaeronea Building of the Forbidden City Byzantine-Muslim Wars Byzantine-Persian Wars Catapult invented Chinese conquest of Vietnam Code of Hammurabi established Conflict of the Orders Conquest of Novgorod Construction of the Parthenon Development of coins in ancient Greece Development of hieroglyphs Development of writing Domestication of animals Fall of Han Dynasty Fall of the Roman Empire Gallic Wars Gun powder invented Great Wall of China built Iconoclastic Controversy Jewish Revolts Last ice age ends London founded by Romans Macedonian Wars March of the 10,000 Mongol Conquest Mongol invasion Mount Vesuvius erupts A.D. 79. Moveable metal type invented Muslim Conquests of 624-982 Peloponnesian War Persian Wars Persian Wars of Expansion Phonetic alphabet invented Printing press invented Punic Wars Rise of Islam Rise of the Mayan civilization Roman Civil Wars of 88-30 B.C. Roman Civil Wars of A.D. 235-284 Rome burns A.D. 64 Roman Colosseum built Roman conquest of Britain Roman expansion Roman invasion of Germany Siege of Carthage 146 B.C. Siege of Jericho Silk Roads established Spread of Christianity Trung sisters’ rebellion Zanj slave revolts A.D. 869-883 |
Acropolis of Athens Akkad Aksum Alexandria Andes Angkor Wat Assyria Athens Babylon Black Sea Byzantine Empire Byzantium Cadíz Caracol Carthage Champa Chichén Itzá China Córdoba Egypt Fertile Crescent Galilee Gandhara Ghana Great Zimbabwe Guatemalan lowlands India Indus River Ionia Israel Japan Jerusalem Khmer Empire Kiev Kievan Rus Korea Kush La Venta Lydia Magadha Mali Empire Mauryan Empire Media Meroe Mesopotamia Mohenjo-Daro Mongol Empire Mount Olympus Nile River Nubia Ottoman Empire Persepolis Phoenicia Roman Empire Sahara Saqqara Smyrna Songhai Empire Sparta Sumeria Thebes Thessalonica Tikal Timbuktu Tripoli Umayyad Empire Uzbekistan Vietnam Yucatán Peninsula |
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World History: Middle Ages to Contemporary Times
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Acheson,
Dean Akihito Al Qaeda Alcuin of York Alfred the Great Amin, Idi Anglo-Saxons Arc, Joan of (Jeanne d’Arc) Artigas, José Gervasio Bacon, Roger Balboa, Vasco Núñez de Beatles, The Becket, Thomas Beethoven, Ludwig van Bonaparte, Napoleon Borgia, Cesare Bhutto, Benazir Bismarck, Otto von Boccaccio, Giovanni Bolívar, Simón Bolshevik Party Boniface VIII Canute Capetians Carolingian Dynasty Castro, Fidel Catherine of Aragon Charlemagne Charles III Charles V Charles VI Chirac, Jacques Churchill, Winston Columbus, Christopher Cortés, Hernando Curie, Marie da Gama, Vasco da Vinci, Leonardo de' Medici, Cosimo Diana, Princess of Wales Edward III Edward the Black Prince Eleanor of Aquitaine Erasmus, Desiderius Ericson, Leif Eugenius III Fastrada Ferdinand, Franz, Archduke of Austria Fox, Vicente Fujimori, Alberto Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Mohandas Group of Eight, or G-8 Gutenberg, Johannes Henry II Henry IV Henry the Navigator Henry V Hitler, Adolph Hobbes, Thomas House of Plantagenet Justinian II Khan, Genghis Khan, Kublai Francis I Leakey, Richard Louis XIV Locke, John Luther, Martin Machiavelli, Niccolò Mandela, Nelson Marconi, Guglielmo Marx, Karl Mary I (Bloody Mary) Menchu, Rigoberta Michelangelo Ming Dynasty Montezuma II Mother Teresa Mussolini, Benito National Socialist German Workers’ Party Noriega, Manuel Normans Norse Pasteur, Louis Perón, Eva Peter the Great Philip IV Pinochet, Augusto Polo, Marco Queen Isabella I Richard the Lionhearted Saladin Shakespeare, William Stalin, Joseph Trollope, Andrew Tubman, William V.S. Tutu, Desmond Urban II Valois Dynasty Vikings Voltaire William the Conqueror Yohannes IV Yongle Zedong, Mao |
African famine 1984-1985 Algerian War of Independence Amistad trial Argentine Revolution of 1955 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Bataan Death March Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945 Battle of Normandy Battle of the Bulge Battle of Trafalgar Black Death or Plague Boxer Rebellion British abolition of the slave trade Byzantine-Ottoman Wars Calcutta earthquake Cambodian Civil Wars Camp David Summit Conference 1978 Caste War of Yucatán Charlemagne’s Wars Chernobyl nuclear accident Chinese Communist Revolution 1946 Communist Manifesto published 1848 Computer invented Construction of the Forbidden City Cotton gin invented Crusades D-Day Defeat of the Spanish Armada Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro 1992 End of apartheid in South Africa Exxon Valdez oil spill Fall of Byzantine empire French Revolution Galileo’s trial German reunification 1990 Great Reform of 1832 (Britain) Great Schism in the Catholic Church Greek Civil War 1949 Greek War of Independence Hague Convention of 1899 Hiroshima bombing Holocaust Hundred Years’ War Inca Empire Imperial Wars Industrial Revolution Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 Internal combustion engine invented Internet invented Iraq War Irish potato famine Italian Renaissance Kristallnacht Liberian Civil War March on Rome 1922 Mercury thermometer invented 1714 Mongol conquest of China Nagasaki bombing Norse voyages Nuremberg Trials Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 Polish invasion 1939 Polish Rebellion Prague Spring Radio invented Reformation and Counter-Reformation Rome Treaty 1957 Russian Revolution 1917 Scientific Revolution Seven Years War Siege of Constantinople 1453 Siege of Orléans Siege of Paris Soviet Union collapse 1991 Spanish Inquisition Steam engine invented Telephone invented Tet Offensive 1968 The Long March Thirty Years’ War 1618 Three-field system of crop rotation Tiananmen Square Transatlantic cable laid 1866 Vietnam War Viking invasions Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Wars of the Roses World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840 World Disarmament Conference 1932 World War I World War II Writing of the Ninety-Five Theses |
Aachen Afghanistan Albania Aquitaine Argentina Auschwitz Australia Austria Austro-Hungarian Empire Aztec Empire Beijing Berlin occupation zones Botswana Brazil Burgundy Byzantine Empire Cairo Cambodia Champagne Chile China Colombia Constantinople Crusader States Cuba Czech Republic Danelaw Dauphiné Democratic Republic of Congo Dunkirk England Estonia Finland Flanders Florence France Germany Gran Colombia Guatemala Hiroshima Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan Jerusalem Kenya Kilwa Kongo Empire Kosovo Latvia Lebanon Liberia Lithuanian London Mauritius Mayan Empire Mexico Middle East Mombasa Nagasaki New Zealand North Korea Omaha Beach Ottoman Empire Pakistan Panama Papal States Paraguay Persian Gulf Peru Poland Rwanda Sarajevo Serbia Silicon Valley South Africa Spain Uganda Venezuela Venice Vietnam Warsaw |
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U.S. History and Government
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Abolitionists Adams, Samuel Aldrin, Buzz American Anti-Slavery Society American Federation of Labor Anthony, Susan B. Anti-federalists Armstrong, Neil Arnold, Benedict Attucks, Crispus Barton, Clara Bell, Alexander Graham Bethune, Mary McLeod Bork, Robert Bradford, William Burr, Aaron Bush, George W. Calhoun, John C. Capone, Al Carnegie, Andrew Chavez, Cesar Chinese Railroad Workers Civilian Conservation Corps Clark, William & Lewis, Meriwether Cleaver, Eldridge Congress of Racial Equality Cotton, John Crazy Horse Custer, George Darrow, Clarence Davis, Jefferson Dewey, John Dix, Dorothea Douglass, Frederick Earhart, Amelia Edison, Thomas Einstein, Albert Eisenhower, Dwight D. Farrakhan, Louis Ford, Henry Franklin, Benjamin Freedmen’s Bureau Friedan, Betty Garrison, William Lloyd Gates, Bill Grant, Ulysses S. Grimké, Angelina Hamilton, Alexander Hancock, John Hawking, Stephen Hayden, Tom Hearst, William Randolph Henry, Patrick Hoffman, Abbott (Abbie) Hoover, Herbert Howe, Juliet Ward Hutchinson, Anne Irving, Washington Jackson, Andrew Jefferson, Thomas Jobs, Steve Johnson, Lyndon B. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert King, Jr., Martin Luther Kissinger, Henry Ku Klux Klan Lee, Robert E. Liddy, Gordon Lincoln, Abraham Lindberg, Charles MacArthur, Douglas Marshall, James McCarthy, Joseph Morgan, J.P. Nation, Carry National Organization for Women Native Americans/Indigenous peoples Navajo code talkers (WWII) Newton, Huey Nixon, Richard Opechancanough Paine, Thomas Parks, Rosa Penn, William Pocahontas Polk, James Pontiac Populist Party Powell, Colin L. Powhatan Pulitzer, Joseph Reagan, Ronald Revere, Paul Rockefeller, John D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Salk, Jonas Scott, Dred Seale, Bobby Shepard, Alan Slater, Samuel Smith, John Smith, Joseph Sons of Liberty Squanto Standish, Miles Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Steinem, Gloria Stowe, Harriet Beecher Suffragists Sutter, John Truman, Harry S. Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet U.S. Colored Troops (Civil War) Vanderbilt, Cornelius Washington, Booker T. Washington, George Webster, Daniel Whitney, Eli Woodward, Bob and Bernstein, Carl Wozniak, Steve Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville and Wilbur X, Malcolm |
Abolition of slavery American Indian Wars 1492-1890 American Revolution Apollo moon landing Assassination of John F. Kennedy Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Atomic bomb invented Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, WWII Arab-Israeli Wars Bacon’s Rebellion Battle at the Alamo Battle of Yorktown Black Thursday, stock market crash Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party Brown vs. the Board of Education Building of the Panama Canal Building of Transcontinental Railroad Civil Rights Movement Civil War Cold War Colonial Wars to 1775 Colonization of America Constitutional Convention Cuban Missile Crisis D-Day (Operation Overlord) Dust Bowl Emancipation Proclamation Erie canal construction First Continental Congress Fugitive Slave Act 1793 Gabriel’s Rebellion Gettysburg Address Gold Strike 1849 Golden Spike Ceremony Great Depression Harlem Renaissance Hindenburg explosion Homestead Act 1862 Impeachment of Richard Nixon Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 Iran-Contra scandal Intolerable Acts Iran hostage crisis Japanese-American internment Korean War Lewis and Clark Expedition Lincoln-Douglas debates Louisiana Purchase Love Canal Mayflower landing Mexican-American War Middle East Wars Million Man March Montgomery Bus Boycott Nat Turner’s Rebellion New Deal OPEC created (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) Panic of 1837 Passing of the 19th amendment Pearl Harbor attack Personal computer invented Polio Vaccine invented Pontiac’s Rebellion Presidential Election of 2000 Ratification of the Constitution Reconstruction Salem Witchcraft Trials San Francisco earthquake 1906 Scopes trial Second Continental Congress Seneca Falls Convention Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars September 11, 2001 attacks Shays’ Rebellion Smallpox epidemic 1777 Statue of Liberty, gift to U.S. 1885 Teapot Dome scandal Three Mile Island accident Uncle Tom’s Cabin published U.S. invasion of Canada (War of 1812) U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia V-E Day (Victory in Europe) V-J Day (Victory in Japan) Vietnam War War of 1812 Watergate Westward Expansion Woodstock 1969 World War I World War II Wounded Knee Massacre Zenger trial 1735 |
Alabama Alaska Angel Island Any of the United States Appomattox Court House Arizona Arkansas Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) Birmingham California Colorado Confederate States of America Connecticut Cuba Delaware Detroit, Michigan District of Columbia Ellis Island Fort Sumter Florida Ford Theater Georgia Gettysburg Great Plains Hawaii Hooverville Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Jamestown Kansas Kentucky Kittyhawk Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Montgomery Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Oregon Trail Pearl Harbor Pennsylvania Pentagon Plymouth Rock Potomac River Puerto Rico Rhode Island Richmond, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia Salem San Jacinto Silicon Valley South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas The 13 colonies Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Williamsburg Wisconsin World Trade Center Wyoming Yorktown, Virginia |
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