The Ultimate World History Quiz

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The Ultimate World History Quiz

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18 engaging questions
Covers major historical events
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18 Questions4 MinutesCreated by ExploringTime295

The ________ Age was marked by the use of some rough stone tools along with hunter/gatherer lifestyles.

Prehistoric

Paleolithic

Neolithic

Bronze

The Defenestration of Prague of 1618, famous for preceding the Thirty Years War, occurred when ...

Napoleon conquered Czech Slovakia in three days.

A Hussite mob threw a judge and 14 others to their deaths from the Town Hall.

Two Catholics survived being thrown from a 70 foot tower by Protestants.

Michael Romanov I and Ferdinand III met in Prague to divide their conquests in Eastern Europe.

The two major Confederate offensives into Union territory during the U.S. Civil War ended at the battles of ______ and Gettysburg.

Bull Run (Manassas)

Antietam (Sharpsburg)

Spotsylvania

Shiloh

This Chinese monk traveled west to meet with Europe's monarchs and even the pope in the late 13th century and is considered the "Reverse Marco Polo"

Rabban Bar Sauma

Wang Lung

Kublai Khan

Siddhartha Gautama

This Patron Saint of France was burned at the stake by the English after leading the French to victories at Orleans and Patay.

Charlemagne (Charles I)

John Calvin

Maximilien Robespierre

Joan of Arc

This Portuguese Explorer who didn't quite circumnavigate the globe was killed in a small battle against natives in the Phillipines, after which his crew completed the full trip around the world.

Vasco de Gama

Ferdinand Magellan

Henry the Navigator

Amerigo Vespucci

The Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson was killed in battle, supposedly taking an arrow to the eye in this battle.

Battle of Hastings

Battle of Agincourt

Battle of Badon Hill

Battle of Tours (Poitiers)

This English monarch was named "Defender of the Faith" by Pope Leo X, in recognition of his Catholic pamphlet: “Declaration of the Seven Sacraments Against Martin Luther”.

Henry VIII

Oliver Cromwell

James I

Elizabeth I

This company which held quasi-governmental power as well as its own military, was also the first company to issue stock.

The South Sea Company

The Mississippi Company

British East India Company

The Dutch East India Company

This cowboy famous for his many shootouts was killed while playing poker in Deadwood, Dakota Territory.

Doc Holliday

Wyatt Earp

"Wild Bill" Hickock

"Billy the Kid" Henry McCarty

This famous ninja associated with the Iga Clan is crediting with saving the life of Tokugawa Leyasu, as well as bringing together the rivial ninja clans of the Koga and the Iga

Uesugi Kenshin

Takeda Shingen

Hattori Hanzo

Oda Nabunaga

Rome took control of Greece after defeating the Greeks at the battle of _____ in 146 BC.

Corinth

Thermopylae

Marathon

Troy

The only country in Africa to successfully defend itself from a European colonization attempt during the Age of Imperialism was _____.

Rwanda

Congo

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Alexander the Great had studied under the philosopher _____ before taking over his father's rule.

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Pythagoras

What was interesting about the Battle of new Orleans fought during the War of 1812?

It was fought after the Treaty of Ghent had ended the war

It was Andrew Jackson's only major defeat during the war

The United States achieved a strategic victory despite taking three times as many casualties as the British

The battle showed the world that Great Britain no longer had the world's strongest Navy

The Indian Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Dynasty was famous for...

Successfully invading China, thus influencing the construction of the Great Wall of China

Erecting numerous Buddhist monuments around his empire, helping to spread the religion

Repelling Alexander the Great's invasion into the Indian sub-continent

Sponsoring voyages that led to the discovery of the island of Sri Lanka

After the decline of the Mali Empire and brief rule by the Tuareg, the city of Timbuktu experienced its golden age under the...

Egyptian Empire

Songhai Empire

Morrocan Empire

Safavid Empire

Under the reign of Diocletian, Rome was divided into quarters to be ruled by four different emperors. This "tetrarchy" was ended when _____ took defeated his rivals, eventually taking sole control of Rome by 324.

Maxentius

Augustus Caesar

Constantine

Septimius Severus

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