Can You Answer These 10 Basic World History Questions?
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Prove you know your world history with this super-tough but straight-to-the-point quiz.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
409 Comments
konrad
Caligula did not make his horse Incitatus a SENATOR, but a Consul.
Bob Fowler
The Soviet Union like The UK is/was not a Country. It is was a number of Countries. And now Putin wants them back.
buhlemann
despite the quibble over "North America", I am glad the wording about Columbus has been brought up to date (from "discovered" to "landing").
William Laughlin
Carol Wyatt,
The islands of the Caribbean are considered part of the North American land mass. They sit on the same tectonic plates as the mainland. Even Greenland is considered part of the North American continent.
Technically, Columbus DID set foot on North America.
mikeyparry
9 / 10. I would have got 10/10 if I read question 5 properly!
David Colloby
R Yancey, BUT NOT IN 30 BC
Carol Wyatt
Technically Columbus never set foot on 'North America'; he made it to several of the Islands in the Caribbean. Leif Eriksson could possibly be the first 'European' to land in NA - in what is now technically Canada.
R Yancey
Egypt was conquered by the Persian Empire.
tyafter
Columbus didn't actually have anything to do with America...especially "discovering" where our Native Americans already lived. This 1492 nonsense needs to stop.
mikeyparry
10 / 10. At last! A proper quiz with correct answers!