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| Gen. Santa Anna. "Quite a character." |
Latin American History...summaries on General Santa Anna, Benito Juarez, and possibly Juan Manuel de Rosas. And then the names/nationalities of all the dictators ("caudillos") who started out good, turned bad, and were overthrown. And some battles.
US History...summaries on the Republic of Texas, Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln. Pre-Civil War and Civil War eras. Not too bad.
Modern Conflicts...summaries on African conflicts and a couple of other topics we haven't covered yet. Then about two dozen separatist movements in Africa and the Americas and probably Asia. Then some names of political leaders. I'll be lucky if I remember the separatist movements.
The lowest test score is dropped, but I'm one of those irrational people who attends every test and wants to earn a lowest test score of A+ (ha!).
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| A secondary character from the books. |
As an aside, my brains are overflowing with ideas for my historical fantasy/adventure trilogy. To be more specific, it follows the early reigns of three queens of a (fictitious) country--grandmother, daughter, granddaughter--at the very end of the monarchy. They each have different personalities, different strengths, different people to deal with.
It's not real historical fiction, but roughly speaking, it extends from the late 1700s to the mid 1800s, though more in the psychological than literal sense. Some might call it "alternate history", but it's not meant to replace or speculate about real history. As an author/reader who loves anything like historical fantasy or steampunk, I've been debating on how to balance history with fantasy, even considering the coexistence of smartphones and horse-drawn carriages... In the end, I resigned myself to a strictly historical-based setting. For this series, at least. ;)
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