The World Quiz > Hardest World History Quiz

	Hardest World History Quiz 1 - What did Italy originaly mean? Land of the setting Sun Land with much cattle Land of the Olive Tree Land of the Small People 2 - What Islamic dynasty was founded by Sultan Saladin? The Ayyubid dynasty The Fatamid dynasty The Abbasid dynasty The Almohad dynasty 3 - What was Stalin's original last name? Balanchivadze Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Basoalto 4 - The Treaty of Kuchuk Kaynarca in 1774 forced the Ottomans to cede which territory to the Russians? Bessarabia Georgia Crimea Dobruja 5 - What had the Spartan youth to do to prove they were adults? They had to take place in a special initiation battle They had to go to a temple on a countryside and dress themselves like bears They had to kill three helots without getting caught and cut off a hand of the deads to prove it Steal cheese without getting caught from a temple 6 - Where was the first UN Security Council meeting held? New York London Paris Geneva 7 - Which US political party was the first to use national conventions to nominate presidential candidates? The Democratic-Republican Party The Know-Nothing Party The Anti-Masonic Party The Whig Party 8 - What were chinampas? The system of floating gardens that allowed societies in the Valley of Mexico to create an agricultural surplus The priestly elite that dominated Mayan city-states at the height of Mayan civilization Small figurines representing ancestors that were the focus of local religious life in Andean cultures The name given by peoples in the Valley of Mexico to barbarian invaders from the desert regions of Northern Mexico 9 - How many Dalai Lamas have there been? 13 14 15 16 10 - What was the most populous tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy? Seneca Mohawk Onondaga Cayuga 11 - The Persian satrapy of Skudra included which two areas? Macedonia and Thrace Thrace and Asia Minor Asia Minor and Syria Syria and Palestine 12 - With which region of South Asia is the early 19th Century empire of Ranjit Singh associated with? Punjab Kerala Bengal Assam 13 - What was the the capital of Dacia? Ecbatana Alma Ata Sarmisegetuza Coste?ti 14 - In which city were General Franco's headquarters located during the Spanish Civil War? Burgos Toledo Valladolid Leon 15 - Which of the following happened the earliest in the United Kingdom? The official adoption of the gold standard The adoption of postal stamps The abolition of slavery throughout its empire The adoption of women's suffrage 16 - Who built the Great Zimbabwe (ruins shown below)? The Zulu in the 19th century The Shona in the 13th century The Xhosa the 11th century The Bantu in the 17th century 17 - What was an Emporion? An agrarian colony A trading post A trading colony A Greek neighbourhood in an Eastern city 18 - Which was not a British King? King Caradog King Bledric King Edwyg King Mark 19 - What country saw native religion fused with Christianity in 1865's 'Hau Hau' movement? Mexico Japan Indochina New Zealand 20 - In which modern African country did Courland have a fort? Guinee Bissau Ivory Coast Sierra Leone Gambia Homepage