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Description	Date	Answer	% Correct
This empire ended the Byzantines. By WWI it was considered the "sick man of Europe".	1918	Ottoman Empire	94%
At one point, it controlled the entire Mediterranean before it decided to split.	284	Roman Empire	94%
A mountainous country led by the Dalai Lama himself.	1950	Tibet	91%
Claimed by both Mexico and the US, but de facto ruled by itself.	1845	Texas Republic	83%
This Empire spanned the Andes mountains and was the largest on its continent.	1572	Inca Empire	82%
This empire was already falling before the Spanish brought pestilence and conquest to the land.	1521	Aztec Empire	74%
This nation claimed to be three things it was not. It was actually a union of many smaller kingdoms.	1806	Holy Roman Empire	70%
This nation assimilated smaller kingdoms into itself, making its king the king of kings.	330 BC	Persian Empire	64%
This Kingdom was directly ruled by the pope for over a millennium.	1870	Papal States	57%
What was ruled by Isabella before she married Ferdinand.	1469	Castile	53%
The largest empire of the Indian subcontinent before British rule.	1857	Mughal Empire	52%
This small former Soviet state held off the Russian army for two years, however it was annexed 4 years later.	2000	Chechnya	50%
Pol Pot believed all other communist states had done it wrong, so he decided to rid his country of ALL western influence.	1975	Khmer Rouge	50%
This South American nation eventually split into four smaller ones and lost its "grand" status.	1831	Gran Colombia	48%
This nation took many generations to unify, only to be taken over by United States businessmen.	1898	Hawaii	48%
An ancient country that was occupied many times, only to re-emerge once again. It only finally fell after Persian takeover.	583 BC	Babylon	44%
This ancient nation believed that losing a battle would mean the end of the world... and its demise began once a battle was lost.	609 BC	Assyria	33%
This country was led by Giuseppe Garibaldi to unify a peninsula.	1861	Sardinia	31%
This Germanic tribe lived in the Hispanic and Gaulish regions of Rome's carcass.	712	Visigoths	31%
This Pre-Russian Kingdom, named after its capital, controlled land from the black sea to Northern Scandinavia, to the Ural Mountains.	1478	Novgorod Republic	28%
The Southern counterpart kingdom to Israel.	586 BC	Judah	26%
This nation succeeded the Mali empire as ruler of West Africa, and profited greatly off of the land's gold, salt, and ivory.	1591	Songhai	20%
The predecessor to Ethiopia and the first country to bring christianity to Africa	960	Aksum	19%
The Zoroastrian empire of Iran that fell to the rise of Islam.	651	Sassanid Empire	19%