Historical Rulers #1

Only one I missed. Been too long.

I don't know how many times I've tried "Ithaka", and it wouldn't accept it, then thinking it must be something else. A little more spelling leniency perhaps, please?

Zion is generally known to be Israel or Jerusalem specifically

Reasonable guess pieced together from bits of information that you had - nothing wrong with that. Most of the names in the Matrix have some mythological, historical, or symbolic meaning behind them, but they are drawn from a large variety of sources.

He wasn't the king of all Mycenia though, so not sure why. Client king isn't much of a reason, since that would mean stuff like King Herod for Rome.

ithaka with a k though maybe? tripped me up as a non english native

Synonyms for nation: synonyms: country, state, land, realm, kingdom, republic

What do you think the "state" in "city-state" means?

Go jump in a well.

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eh..... no, not really. Though in contemporary usage, "nation" and "state" have become synonymous.... largely because the concept of nationalism has become so pervasive that virtually ALL countries in the world consider themselves "nation states"... the idea of a "nation" comes from the concept of nationalism which only emerged in the early 19th century. This was the concept that there existed groups of people- connected through common heritage, language, religion, history, geography and/or genetics (an ethnicity, in other words)... and that these groups of people- "nations"- were entitled to self-rule by one of their own.

This was in stark contrast to what was the rule of the day and had been for most of history- which was that people were organized into multi-ethnic kingdoms/empires/principalities ruled over by monarchs and emperors that more often than not shared little in common with their subjects.

So... nationalism is a new concept. Relatively speaking. Even though everyone these days has been conditioned to take it for granted. And even though, at a fundamental level, the idea is complete bullpoop.

City-states, on the other hand, were more of a thing in ancient history. Back when the limitations of bureaucracy, infrastructure and communications technology made it much more practical most of the time for cities to be locally governed. Today we are left with only a handful but from antiquity up through the 19th century- right around when nationalism as an idea was catching on, in fact- there were tons.

Because Greece was not a country then. It's like putting Italy for Rome, doesn't quite work out.

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You better go back in time to tell them to call themselves something else then. :-)

The Holy Roman Empireans are offended by this.

No she wasn't. She was just Queen of England & Ireland. Wales was considered a part of England, while Scotland was added via the Acts of Union in 1707. In fact James VI of Scotland would inherit the English/Irish throne from Elizabeth thereby becoming James I of England & Ireland.

The quiz doesn't specify that these rulers were all "emperors". Caesar did rule Rome, even though it was still the Roman Republic at the time.