Historical City to Country

500 is a bit early for the Byzantine empire.

Not really, no. The Roman Empire divided in 285, so Athens had been a part of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire for 200 years at that time, and would be for another millennium.

French empire? 1950?

right, it should be the French Republic, or the Fourth French Republic

When Vietnam got its independence is irrelevant. France was a Republic in 1950.

In 120 BC, Judea was a part of the Seleucid Empire.

Derp. I tried Czech Republic. Forgot about the "Slovakia" part.

I remembered both of the answers for Jerusalem, thanks to Monty Python's Life of Brian and the Judean People's Front. Or was it the People's Front of Judea?

Got 20 to my surprise, including Venice

It was a learning experience. (It makes me feel better to say that when I miss a lot of answers.)

The Mali Empire gets no love.

Would Yuan Dynasty work for Mongol Empire, or no?

Yes, this would be good.

Agree.

I put Viceroyalty of the River Plate instead of Spanish Empire. What a dumb.

the great persian empire and nothing about! add something about persia or change the name of your quiz

Can you accept "Judah" for Judea as well.

Technically different things. Though I did pick it up by typing in Hasmonean...

which is more accurate as Judea was the name of the Roman province before the Maccabean revolt. I'm not sure but I don't think the locals continued calling it Judea during the Hasmonean dynasty, though I'm sure the Romans still called it that up until they reconquered it and changed the name to Syria Palaestina, to attempt to destroy its Jewish identity.

Not today.

Judah for Judea?

Just a nitpick: There was no year 0. 1 BC was followed by AD 1.

great quiz, havent seen something quite like this before

Can you consider accepting Iudea for Judea. I know it's not correct in english, but it's closer to the latin/greek term, especially phonetically.

Pretty easy, though if you don't accept simply "Roman Empire" for "Byzantine Empire" maybe at least accept "Eastern Roman Empire?" the only one that tripped me up for a second. I was trying to think of who else other than the Roman Empire would have controlled bits of the Balkans in 500 AD, and even tried Byzantium, before getting the answer you were looking for.

When did Egypt control Jerusalem? Isn’t the Exodus story of the Jews in Egypt considered to be mythological by the majority of scholars? Even if it were true, that wouldn’t imply Egyptian control of Jerusalem, would it?

Under the New Kingdom, Egypt controlled most of the Levant including Jerusalem. There are plenty of primary sources of information which support this, regardless of the fact/fiction status of the biblical story described in Exodus.

The Exodus story is myth, but that doesn't mean that ancient Egyptians were mythological. Jerusalem became a vassal to the Egyptian New Kingdom sometime around the 15th century BC. The Exodus story was not written until about 1000 years after that, long after the New Kingdom had gone into decline. Nobody knows for sure but it's believed that the story was probably first written during the period that Jews were held captive in Babylon. The Pharaohs referenced in Exodus may have been based on real-life Pharaohs, or they may have been entirely made up, but as they are not named and few clues are given about their identity it's difficult to place these events on a real historical timeline. Anyway the Egyptians in Exodus are not described as dominating Jerusalem so this has nothing to do with that.

Macedonia should be changed to Macedon, which is what the ancient kingdom is called. Macedonia can be thought of as connected to the modern region of Macedonia (split among four countries) or the country of North Macedonia both of which are as far from the ancient kingdom as it goes.