I like the quiz, but I don't like the title. All the events are around the Mediterranean, pertaining to Rome, Greece/Macedonia, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Maybe a title that reflects that, "ancient history" is so much wider. (The one about Nepal maybe being the exception, Cyrus is close enough.)
Yeah. I get that most of recorded history in Europe during the Roman period did directly relate to Rome, but places like China still existed throughout this entire period.
Yes very Western-centric and specifically Greco-Roman-Egyptian-centric. While I'm sure most people visiting the site know this history better than ancient Chinese history you could at least throw on a question about Confucius, Qin Shi Huang, Ashoka or the Great Wall.
I liked this quiz even though I didn't know all the answers. From the two I've missed I maybe would have thought of one if I wasn't doing the quiz at midnight. I haven't heard of the other and I'm off to its wikipedia page to see what all the fuzz is about.
The Punic wars have nothing to do with Corinth. That's why they're called the Punic wars. The war with Corinth was a different thing, even though it happened at roughly the same time.
Please accept Fira/Santorini on the question about the volcano that ended the Minoan civ. I kept trying them because i thought you meant where the actual volcano was not where the minoans were. Great quiz otherwise!
This is completely correct. Although the collapse appears to have occurred roughly contemporaneously with the eruption of the volcano on Thera, there is a lot of speculation that other forces played a large role in the collapse at the very least (some explanations include a Mycenaean invasion, among others).
I think the current consensus is that while the eruption may have played a part in the decline of Minoan prosperity it wasn't the ultimate cause of the collapse. There's very good evidence to say that was indeed by conquest.
Oooops, my score shows that I've left high school/gymnasium two years ago and sadly enough I forgot too much (although a lot of questions I almost knew but just didn't). I feel bad.
I am not so sure that "suicide" is an accurate way to describe Socrates death. He was commanded to drink the poison as punishment for corrupting youth. Even though he himself lifted the glass and drank, he was ordered to do so.
Pretty sure Mycenaeans were a bigger cause of the collapse of Minoan civilization. Mycenaeans were going all conquer mode around that time; part of them, the Achaeans went against the Trojans in that war.
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