Yeah this is not a very narrowing clue. At the height of the empire, which is around 0 AD, Rome controlled everything from Scotland to Morocco to Persia.
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.
Germany also annexed the Sudetenland in 1938. The appeasement of Hitler by the other European powers is considered to have been one factor which emboldened him to invade Poland.
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.
Corsica declared itself independent from Genoa in 1755, but no one recognized it outside Corsica. France bought the island from Genoa in 1767 but didn't smash the independent government until 1769. I think Genoa to France in 1767 would be the correct hints here.
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 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.
Also, South Ossetia is not a part of Russia. It's recognized by Georgia and most nations as part of their territory still. It is recognized as an independent nation by Russia however.
I don't think that the comment above about Rome controlling "everything" in 0 BC is correct - England not until about 50 years later, "Scotland" not really ever (maybe lower Scotland between the two walls), and Mesopotamia/to the Persian Gulf (Parthia) not until about 100 AD and never very effectively.
Why is Cuba excluded? It didn't gain independence until 1902 and was a protectorate of the United States following the Spanish American war. I understand the argument that Cuba had pseudo independence, as Spain relinquished control without a shift to American control specified in the Treaty of Paris, and was never formally annexed, but it seems silly to exclude it. It was very much American controlled. You did specify de facto control, which the US definitely had. I assume it's the same logic behind included illegally occupied Russian "acquisitions."
"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.
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.
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.
Actually they didn't. Those parts of Wales that were still independent were formally annexed by the Statute of Rhuddlan. The Laws in Wales Acts which bound Wales to a unified state were much later, in the 16th century. All of it was imposed on Wales.
I really like the idea of this quiz as being about provinces changing hands, but it's muddied by the inclusion of some "independent" ones, which makes it much more arbitrary a list. I still enjoyed it though :-)
i've probably asked this on other quizzes but can there be more spelling leniency for south ossetia? i can never remember if it's double s or double t or both
I guess, technically speaking, neither Abkhazia nor South Ossetia can be considered fully-fledged subjects of Russia, since Russian government still considers them as independent states, not regions of the country (kind of like Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics in 2014-2022 until the became a "part" of Russia)
Please add Cuba.
"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
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....
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.