History Quiz: How...?

These were clay pots filled with scorpions.

It was Kublai Khan's capital city.

It was known as Doggerland. It was later submerged by rising sea levels.

The mission was sent by King Seong of Baekje. The Soga clan played a key role in spreading the religion across Japan afterwards.

The 14th was installed by Francisco Pizarro. The 15th was as well, but revolted and set up an independent Inca state, Vilcabamba. One more was installed by Pizarro and then three more ruled from Vilcabamba.

The people they sent were called hopu. One or two hopu per contestant would swim to the island of Motu Nui (off Easter Island) with a bundle of reeds. Whoever collected the egg would call out their benefactor by a new name and tell them to shave their head. People on the shore of Easter Island would hear it and relay the information to the nearby village of Orongo, where everyone would be waiting. The other hopu would then return while the winner would fast. The winner would then take the egg back in the reeds, attached to their forehead, and climb a cliff to reach the village. If the egg survived, he would present it to his patron, who would have had their head shaved and painted. The patron would then lead a procession, holding the egg, down the slope of a nearby extinct volcano and to Anakena, a white beach (if he was from the western clans) or Rano Raraku, a volcanic crater (if he was from the eastern clans). As such he would be entitled to gifts of food and other tributes, his clan would have sole rights to collect bird eggs from Motu Nui and he would spend a year in seclusion, within a special ceremonial house. He would be considered sacred and would allow his nails to grow long. He would also wear a headdress of human hair and would only eat and sleep, for he would not be expected to do anything else.

He later adapted it to musical notation and published a treatise on the whole system in 1829. In 1837, he published three-volume braille version of a popular history textbook.

It was one of if not the largest city in the world at the time.

New Spain established a presidio (fortified base) at the Golden Gate during that year.

This includes 7 American and 26 Japanese warships.

There are typically constructed out of adobe, and are fortified. Many of them are ancient.

The pendants were called guanín, the huts (called bohíos) of ordinary villagers were round and the wooden stools allowed them to sit higher than their guests.

Cursi are monumental structures resembling ditches or trenches. The one at Stonehenge was constructed between 3630 and 3375 BC, before Stonehenge itself, and is one of a large number of structures located near Stonehenge.

It is the largest single-span vault of unreinforced brickwork in the world. It was built within the city of Ctesiphon.

It was located in what is now Ghana.