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HMS Victory
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1492
- Syphillis
5 Time Champ, what was the answer to 192?
Hope nobody minds some strictly half-assed participation. I post purely on a whim ;)…
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What commander is generally given credit for inventing the “pike and shot” infantry formations that dominated western European warfare in the Renaissance period?
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Cologne, Mainz, Trier - what do these cities have in common?
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Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Hohenstaufen, Wittelsbach - one of these doesn’t belong with the others ( excluding the letters they start with
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How many dynasties have claimed and ruled major states under the aegis of the title of Caliph? What number of dynasties have done so simultaneously?
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Who was the last ruler to rule a united Carolingian empire? Who were the last direct-line male descendants of the Carolingians to rule anywhere?
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The name Edward is stereotypically associated with British kings, the name of eight monarchs since the Norman conquest. Yet it is a Saxon name, the only Saxon name ( other than Edmund ) ever found among the post-Conquest royal families. No Edgars, no Alfreds, no Edwys, no Elreds, no Athelstans. Why the popularity of Edward ( and to a lesser extent, Edmund )?
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What was the “Spanish Road?”
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What colonial power dominated the East African coast during the 18th to mid-19th centuries?
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What two momentous events occurred in 1453?
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Several kings of France were already kings before they even ascended the French throne. One was Henry III, elected to the throne of Poland the year before he inherited France from his older brother. What were the others kings of?
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Where was the first Soviet Socialist Republic formed outside of Europe?
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Oman
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Constantinople fell to the Ottomans; I’m drawing a blank on the other.
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Mongolia.
- Cologne, Mainz, Trier - what do these cities have in common?
Ruled by archbishops ?
Yep.
Half yep :).
Nope.
Yes, but I was looking for something just a bit more.
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Maurice of Nassau
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The land route connecting Spanish Hapsburg possessions in Italy and the Spanish Netherlands.
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Portugal
They were Electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
Nope.
Yep.
Nope, see above. It’s an arguable point, but after the late 17th century ( fall of Ft. Jesus in Mombasa in 1695 to the Omanis ) Portugal was isolated to backwater southeast along modern Mozambique. The wealthier, more urbanized Swahili-speaking coast to the north and associated inland trade routes were monopolized by Omani Arabs based from Zanzibar.
Yes - the three religious Electors as counterparts to the four secular Electors.
Sorry, I missed your correct answer of “Too early to tell”, Chou En Lai’s quip about the lessons of the French Revolution.
- OK, not knowing whether you are going early or late with this one, the answer is either De Cordoba or Gustavus Adolphus. (Gods, I love James Burke!)
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Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Hohenstaufen, Wittelsbach - one of these doesn’t belong with the others ( excluding the letters they start with ). Which one and why?
Hmm- Hapsburg is the odd family out. The other 3 are German, in the sense that those families ruled kingdoms in what is now modern Germany. Whereas the Hapsburgs family were Holy Roman & later Austro-Hungarian monarchs. If that makes any sense. -
Several kings of France were already kings before they even ascended the French throne. One was Henry III, elected to the throne of Poland the year before he inherited France from his older brother. What were the others kings of?
How about the aforementioned Henri IV, who was King of Navarre before the French kingship devolved upon him.
Early 
- it was in fact Gonzalo de Cordoba ( El Gran Capitan! ) I was looking for. He was the pioneer and relative to what he started with ( buckler and sword-equipped light infantry ) likely deserves to be called a greater innovator than either Maurice or Gustaf Adolph. In the running for Spain’s greatest general of all time, if you ask me.
No, not really. There are actually a couple of different good ways to break up that group, but Germanness isn’t one of them. The Hapsburgs were always a German-speaking family ( at least until Charles V’s Spanish branch broke off from the rest ) that originated as nobility within the boundaries of what was then the kingdom of Germany. They held several German territoritorial units centuries before acquiring any extra-German territories and the Hohenzollerns and Hohenstaufens, too, held non-German speaking lands. Really excluding the Spanish Hapsburgs the later Hohenstaufens may have been the least Germanic in a sense - Frederik II was raised entirely in Italy and his primary powerbase was the kingdom of Sicily. Even the Wittelsbachs briefly had one member elected ( disputed ) king of Bohemia.
Yes, that was what I was looking for. The crown of Navarre was bouncing around branches of the French royal family for quite some time really. Louis X and Philip IV were also kings of Navarre before ascending the throne.
- That depends… Do you consider Caucasus as part of Europe? If you don’t then it is the Transcaucasian SSR formed in 1922 (consisting of Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia, Azerbaijan). If you do, the it is the Turkestan SSR formed in 1924 of Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan.
241 I’m not sure of the status of Georgia, Armenia and Abkhazia, but Azerbaijan was an SSR back in 1920
- Because of Edward the Confessor?
Correct :).
A little more precisely it was on Iranian side, in the densely forested Caspian Sea region known as Gilan. Short-lived, obviously. But first.
Exactly :).
Henry III was the first post-Conquest king raised primarily in England and he became fascinated with the cult of Edward the Confessor, ultimately saddling his two sons with the atavistic names Edward ( later Edward I ) and Edmund ( ‘Crouchback’, founder of the great feudal demesnes of Lancaster ), securing those names for the royal family. The later popular revival of names like Alfred and Edgar was a Victorian phenomenon.
I knew there had to a good reason to be working in Baku :dubious:
Correct, OtakuLoki, silenus and Saratoga Sam, as to questions 225-228.
Tamerlane, I believe the limit is asking five questions at a time.
Here are some more:
- The British Houses of Parliament are technically the Palace of _______.
- In what city did Handel’s oratorio Messiah premiere?
- These pair of twin-brother freedom fighters were later honored on Vietnamese postage stamps.
- This was William the Conqueror’s title in 1065.
- In what century was the doctrine of papal infallibility proclaimed?