Territorial Accessions

I said Gao for Goa. I didnt realize my mistake...

I got the Rome one. Missed Corsica. Several of these empires have annexed many different territories but that doesn't mean it's impossible to figure out which one based on the hints or with a little guesswork.

The height of the empire is around 130 AD, please

The height of the empire was definitely NOT 0 A.D. because that doesn't exist.

I think the Anschluss of Austria is more significant, because it made it evident that Britain and France just let Germany openly violate Versailles. Also I wouldn't include Sudetenland because soon after, Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.

I agree, France buyed Corsica from Genoa, it wasn't indipendent.

I disagree. If the island was effectively ruling itself for a decade, then whatever bureaucratic excuse two invaders use to justify their actions is meaningless. (although it could be added "de facto" as in other clues).

I am no expert but i would guess genoa should be allowed as an answer

I agree with fisherm421 AND rocamorar, Corisca was formally sold to France by Genoa because the island was too much a hassle to rule. They never really got a grasp on it and, never knowing what to do with it, they prefered to sell the problem away to another fool (ignoring of course that roughly a year later, Napoleon Bonaparte would be born a French citizen on the island ;). Thus, you could perfectly tell it was "De facto independent". scanmbigol -> Nope, you got it backwards. It was formally Genoan and de facto independent, before being sold to France.

The quiz does ask for the de facto status of the territories it includes and on that basis Corsica was indeed independent at the time specified. I think it's that simple.

It was given independence in 1902, 4 years after the war. I think Cuba should be included.

6 out of 20..... in a history quiz......

Translation from European:

"This quiz is too US-centric!" ==> This quiz contains questions about the United States which I don't know the answers to, because I know mostly about Europe and would prefer that the US did not exist.

"How about some questions about the rest of the world?" ==> How about some more questions about Europe, specifically whichever country I live in and those nearby, as, like all human beings on Earth, I am concerned primarily with local geography. I don't really know much about Nepal or Botswana or Uruguay, either. "The world" can be understood to mean Europe, or Western Europe more specifically.

I'm starting to pick up on the local lingo after spending the last two years traveling around here. People here are upset that Americans don't know about "geography." By which they mean their country. Because they certainly don't know about any others. I've quizzed them and they always fail.

Anyway. back to our regularly scheduled program

and, crem, you know that the United States has history, too, right? One of the US questions is a multi-part answer. 4/17 accessions here include the US (while also including other countries). You could say the United States is seen in 4 out of 34 clues. Europe is seen in 20 out of 34 clues, even though in terms of geographical size, population, and GDP Europe is roughly equal to the USA. In terms of historical significance since prehistory, Europe exceeds the USA. But in terms of historical significance in the past century? The history that most average people might be familiar with? That's more or less equal and the closer you get to present day the more it tips away from Europe.

I can't believe you are saying that United States are as important as whole Europe just because their "population and territory are equal".

Historically, there were much more important territorial accessions than United States stealing American continent. I'm surprised not to see someones taking over of Jerusalem in this quiz....

Since prehistory, people lived mostly in Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa. I'm not saying that United States don't have history, but it's history is significantly shorter then, for example, Greek, Egyptian, Russian, French, Armenian, Serbian, Italian, Turkish, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Sudanese, Bulgarian, Polish, Austrian, Czech, Hungarian and so on.... Those nations have much richer history then United States, which doesn't even have a nation, it's just random people from all over the world in one country :)

All of those countries and nations i mentioned exist for a really long time, and have gone through a lot. United States is just a country founded couple of centuries ago by capitalists, who are getting richer and richer every day by taking money and starting wars between all of those nations i mentioned earlier. Civilians are bravely dying in those wars while Americans are just taking all they have.

eurocrem your comment is extremely ignorant. That's one of the stupidest rants I've ever heard.

You obviously have some political axe to grind Eurocrem but as far as the quiz goes I agree with you. The percentage of American territorial acquisitions outside the mainland represented here must be quite high, whereas for the other countries it's very low indeed. And it's not even as if any other countries in the Americas are represented at all.

@eurocrem Actually, many of the countries you mentioned are more recent than the United States. Greece became a country in 1832, and at the time it had a significantly smaller territory than today. Italy became a country in 1861. India became a country in 1947. Czechia became a country in 1993.

You probably believe that those "nations" or "ethnicities" have existed for much longer and that they eventually "awakened" and fought for their independence/unification, but that's a false narrative. Nationalism is a very recent phenomenon in history, and "nations" in the modern sense of the term didn't exist until approximately the 19th century. The modern country of Greece has nothing to do with Ancient Greece, which never even was a unified country in its time.

eurocrem, you didn't bother reading what I wrote, as evinced by your first sentence, so I'm not going to bother reading what you wrote.

All I’m wondering is “where Africa”

Depends whose propaganda you read.

the typo was the fact that they typed alcase not alsace

yes, you are right