World Scholars Cup Exam Study Guide.
Dioramas - Answer✔a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional full size or miniature
model.
living history museum - Answer✔a type of museum which recreates historical settings to
simulate a past time period, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history
(people dress, talk, and do things as they did long ago)
Spanish Village in Barcelona - Answer✔Essentially a large, full scale diorama of the diversity of
buildings of Spain from traditional eras. People can efficiently inspect 49,000 square meters of
historical buildings and tilt at old slides with Don Quixote.
Heritage Park - Answer✔In Calgary, stop for photos and eat 19th century ice cream with
traditionally dressed people.
Millenium Park - Answer✔in Kaifeng offers hundreds of acres of life in the Northern Song
Dynasty (A northern song dynasty).
american frontierland - Answer✔The land or territory that forms the furthest extent of a
country's settled or inhabited regions. Home to cowboys, pioneers, salons. (also themed park at
disney)
Plymouth Patuxent - Answer✔In Massachusetts, is a controversial colonial village where visitors
explore the early pilgrimage. However it has been criticised for not being a bicultural museum,
doesn't pay enough attention to indigenous people who were innately displaced and given
smallpox by the pilgrims.
Paleo Diet - Answer✔avoid processed food. The idea we should eat no processed food like out
ancestors 10000 years ago when life expectancy was only 35 years.
roman thermopolium - Answer✔Fast food for ancient romans. Sort of a snack bar and hot food
were served.
Ulster people - Answer✔It is Ireland. The Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of Ulster
people's emigration to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. However there is a
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problem with the 'American Folk Park' is that it is in Ireland. Irish people who moved to US from
boarding crowded ships to sleeping in log cabins.
Dysentery - Answer✔Dysentery is an infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea
containing blood or mucus.
Great Emu War - Answer✔in 1932, Australia declared war on emus.
Western Australian farmers had been facing hard times with their crops following the Great
Depression, and their difficulties increased tenfold with the arrival of some 20,000 emus
migrating inland during their breeding season. The birds had been protected as a native species
until 1922, but now that they were classified as "vermin," all bets were off.
Renaissance Fairs - Answer✔a fair that celebrate the renaissance period of history.
Bruce Coville's 1986 novel Operation Sherlock - Answer✔In Bruce Coville's 1986 novel
Operation Sherlock, six teenagers have no history teacher—their parents are rogue scientists
developing the first AI on an otherwise uninhabited island.
videogames as a way of revisiting history - Answer✔The Oregon Trail | Seven Cities of Gold |
Sid Meier's Pirates! | Call of Duty
Ghost of Tsushima | Age of Empires | Assassin's Creed | Railroad Tycoon
what critisism did the Oregon trail game face? - Answer✔the game has also been criticized for
celebrating imperialism, for discounting the cost of environmental destruction, and for ignoring
the perspective of the indigenous peoples whose lands were being trampled—it was, in a
sense, the Oregon Trail of Tears.
what is a column (literature) - Answer✔A column is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper,
magazine or other publication, where a writer expresses their own opinion in few columns
allotted to them by the newspaper organisation.
Presentism - Answer✔focusing too much on the 20th and 21st centuries—and against sifting
selectively though the past to find support for their current social agendas. President of the
American Historical Association warned about this.
list actresses who played princess diana - Answer✔Kristen Stewart.
Jeanna De Waal
Emma Corrin
Elizabeth Debicki
Bonnie Soper
Naomi Watts
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